Prison Pipeline

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Deflection Programs.

As a kind of trade-off when the Oregon legislature recriminalized simple

possession of some drugs, the state of Oregon and the majority of Oregon

counties committed to setting up what are called deflection programs,...

Please join us on Monday, November 18th at 6:00 pm for Prison Pipeline on

KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African

People's Socialist Party.  On September 12, 2024, a federal jury in Tampa

returned a contradictory and nonsensical verd...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Domestic Violence: The Need for Better

Data and Better Policies.

The Council on Criminal Justice is a nonprofit think tank that works to

advance understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the US

and to build consensus...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Doing What Works: Overdose Prevention

Sites.

The Institute for Addiction Science at the University of Southern California

is holding a Distinguished Speaker Series. The featured speaker for October

was Alex Kral, PhD, a Distinguished ...

Host Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director, and

Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, Senior Policy Manager, with Partnership for Safety &

Justice and Safety and Justice Oregon. They discuss their advocacy work plans

for the 2025 Oregon Legislative session and past acc...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Fentanyl Smuggling and the Failure of a

Militarized War on Drugs.

The Washington Office on Latin America recently hosted a group of experts in

a discussion entitled Responding Effectively to the Fentanyl Overdose Crisis:

Evidence from th...

Emma Lugo speaks with Aisha Beliso-De Jesus about her book: EXCITED

DELIRIUM: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease. In this

book, Aisha uncovers the invented disease—excited delirium syndrome—which

is used by medical examiners to assign cause to “unexplaine...

Please join us on Monday, October 7th at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO

Community Radio as we talk with Loren Naldoza, Oregon Food Bank Public Policy

Advocate about this summer's Grants Pass decision by the Supreme Court which

provides a pathway to criminalize homeless...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Andres Mendoza, poet, community advocate and

group facilitator. He is also the author of AMERICAN US. 

More info: Instagram @yo_soy_andres_mendoza

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: The Rebel Academy.

The Rebel Academy was created to bring GED instruction and tutoring to

students rather than asking students to go to a campus and register for

classes. The Rebel Academy’s mission is to create and deliver meaningful

an...