§ 137.167 Imprisonment when county jail is not suitable for safe confinement

If a judge sentences someone to jail time, but the local county jail is not safe or suitable to hold that person, the judge can send them to a jail in a nearby county instead. This might happen because the jail is overcrowded, not secure enough, or otherwise not equipped to hold the person safely.

If even the nearby county's jail is not a good fit, the judge has the option to send the person to a jail in any other county in Oregon. The main point of this rule is to make sure someone who is sentenced to jail actually has a safe and appropriate place to serve their time, even if their home county cannot provide it.

This means a defendant could end up serving their sentence somewhere other than the county where they were convicted. It does not change the length or terms of the sentence, only the location where it is served.