On February 11, 2022, the honorable Judge Alycia Kersey sentenced Joseph Elmer Woods to the care, custody, and control of the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) for a period of 350 months, based on pleas to charges involving Wood’s sexual abuse of an unrelated, 9-yr old child. The court made the specific finding that Woods is a drug-dependent person and recommended that DOC offer treatment.