In 2007 the state legislature authorized funds to replace the aging Oregon State Hospital facility with two modern psychiatric hospitals that will produce a net increase of nine beds.  A new facility was completed in Salem last year, and a site in Junction City is expected to open in the next two years.  While any increase in public psychiatric bed populations makes it possible to meet the treatment needs of more individuals, a bump of nine beds is unlikely to change the fact that people with severe mental illness in Oregon are three times more likely to be behind bars than hospitalized. Fifty beds per 100,000 people are considered minimal.  With 18.3 beds per 100,000 residents, Oregon by 2010 was providing only 18% of that minimum (Treatment Advocacy Center)