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Adam Carpinelli interviews Amanda Trujillo with Portland Freedom Fund

(PFF).  PFF is a volunteer-run abolitionist organization currently

dedicated to reducing harms perpetuated against our Black, Brown and

Indigenous neighbors by the criminal justice system through posting ...

This week on Prison Pipeline: Covid-19: The Continuing Crisis.

Thomas Abt, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and Director

of the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice, talks about

the new report “Experience To Action: Reshaping Criminal Justi...

Please join us as we talk with author Damien Linnane this week on Prison

Pipeline.  Damien Linnane was born in Sydney, Australia. His debut novel,

Scarred, was written by hand while he was in prison, for crimes the

sentencing magistrate described as ‘vigilante action’. Sinc...

Please join us as we talk with Mitigation Specialist Victoria Rusk this week

on Prison Pipeline.  Mitigation in criminal defense is the 'why' behind the

crime. It tells the accused person’s story and asks a judge or jury to

consider the significant life circumstances leadin...

Covid continues to wreak havoc within our prisons. Corrections facilities in

the US have been a public health nightmare for many years so it’s really no

surprise. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Center on Media, Crime

and Justice has been holding a series of webi...

Adam Carpinelli interviews members of Oregonians Against Slavery and

Involuntary Servitude (OASIS).  This group is committed to changing the

language of the Oregon Constitution to formally ban slavery and involuntary

servitude of incarcerated persons. 

For more information...

Please join us tonight for an interview with Bobby Binford.  Binford is a

native american activist who has been incarcerated for 48 of his 62 years of

life including numerous years in isolation.  Binford describes incarceration

as being buried alive and has been fighting ...

Join Prison Pipeline hosts to hear holiday messages to and from your loved

ones in prison.

The most important criminal justice race in the November election was the

race for District Attorney of Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest

local prosecutorial district.  Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles helped defeat

incumbent Jackie Lacey and elect progressive candidat...

The 2020 general election was historic on many levels. In terms of the

criminal justice system, one of the most important measures on that ballot --

possibly one of the most important measures in more than two decades -- was

Oregon's Ballot Measure 110, the Drug Addiction T...