Prison Pipeline

Host Emma Lugo discusses COVID-19, LGBTQ prisoners, and police violence with

members of four Pacific Northwest prison abolition groups, Duckey with

Siskiyou Abolition Project; Rory with Critical Resistance PDX; Kia with Black

Pink PDX; Rose with Free Them All WA.  

Black...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Aisha Mohammed and Jihad Abdulmumit from The

Jericho Movement for Political Prisoner Amnesty, discussing the importance of

supporting Black Political Prisoners during a time of global pandemic,

national political uprisings in 2020 and recent campa...

Public Perceptions of Police and Protests: The Council on Criminal Justice

recently hosted a webinar on public perceptions of police and protests

against brutality and for accountability. On this edition of Prison Pipeline

we hear portions of that audio including Pulitzer P...

Please join us as we talk with Jagger Blaec and Savina Monet of the Cannabis

Workers Coalition on Monday, October 12th at 6:30pm.  We will talk about how

Oregon's cannabis industry is blocking access for previously incarcerated

people. The sad fact is that those same people...

As wildfires raged across Oregon, about 2,600 prisoners were evacuated from

four prisons. Prisoners and family members reported conditions during the

evacuations as unsafe, unsanitary and alarming; some called them

‘inhumane’. Host Karen James speaks with Oregon attorneys T...

In January 1999, Quan Huynh shot and killed a man in Hollywood. He received a

prison sentence of fifteen years to life in a state that, at the time, did

not parole prisoners with life sentences. Quan was a member of a violent and

ruthless Vietnamese street gang, and behind ...

Adam Carpinelli interviews musician Jeremy Young with Soundfly about their

most recent project: Behind the Bars: A Week Dedicated to Music In, About,

and From Prisons. This special editorial series exclusively features content

that covers music initiatives and recordings fr...

Please join us this week for an interview with Portland Mayoral Candidate

Sarah Iannarone.  From her website, Rethinking Public Safety Iannarone

says, Many Portlanders agree that as it stands today, our city is not a safe

place for all— in perception or in reality. Publi...

Karen James speaks with Biff Chaplow from Beyond These Walls, a Trans led

organization that offers a number of programs to support LGBTQ prisoners in

Oregon and Washington.  Beyond These Walls manages a COVID-19 Hotline

(503-329-9740).  They collaborate with other community...

Please join us this week as we talk with City Council Candidate Mingus Mapps

about a broad range of policy issues related to the Portland Police

Department, Systemic Racism and Community Alternatives to Policing on Prison

Pipeline.  

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