Prison Pipeline

This week on Prison Pipeline: Implementing Measure 110 - conversation with

Ron Williams and Devon Downeysmith from the Oregon Health Justice Recovery

Alliance.

Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, was

approved overwhelmingly by Oregon voters i...

Karen James speaks with Amy Davidson, Partnership for Safety and Justice

Crime Survivor Program; and Alexxis Robinson Woods, executive director of

Call to Safety, Portland's domestic and sexual violence crisis line.  They

discuss what crime survivors of color need after exp...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Dr. Carma Corcoran, Indian Law Program Director

at Lewis and Clark Law School. She is currently authoring a book, “The

Incarceration of Native American Women as a Societal Issue: Approached

Applying Gentle Action Theory”  through the University of...

Please join us as we talk with Juan Chavez of the OJRC on the topic of Covid

19 in Oregon state prisons one year into the pandemic.  With more than 3000

incarcerated persons infected with the Coronavirus and 42 dead, Covid 19 has

been a deadly and terrifying pandemic that h...

Karen James speaks with Zach Winston, Policy Director with Oregon Justice

Resource Center, an organization that promotes civil rights and improves

legal representation for underserved communities.  Zach Winston discusses

OJRC’s priorities for the 2021 Oregon legislative ses...

Karen James speaks with Malori Maloney, Minister of Information, with the

Washington County Justice Initiative (WCJI).  WCJI was formed in 2020 by

public defense providers to advocate ending racial, economic, and systemic

violence in the Washington County criminal legal sys...

The Council on Criminal Justice Task Force on Policing recently released a

set of policy assessments that advise lawmakers to ban chokeholds, prohibit

or severely restrict the use of no-knock warrants, and require officers to

intervene when they see peers and supervisors us...

Please join us as we talk with Ethan Stout on Supporting Youth of

Incarcerated Native Families.  Stout is the website manager and project

coordinator for MyRedRoad.Com supporting youth of incarcerated Native

families.  My Red Road is a collaboration between Stout and Bobby ...

Karen James speaks with Tom Stenson, Disability Rights Oregon Deputy Legal

Director, about his new report “Four Years Later: Oregon Prison Overhauls

Treatment of Inmates with Serious Mental Illness”.  Disability Rights

Oregon’s previous report “Behind the 11th Door” reveale...

On April 12,  1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other

protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday

demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national

attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered b...