Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli interviews the wife of a member of Uhuru Sasa, an

African-American Cultural Club based at the Oregon State Penitentiary in

Salem, Oregon.  The club's mission is to develop the members through

culture, vocation and education.

The House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil

Liberties recently held a Democratic Roundtable on “The Bill of Rights in

the Balance:  The Deployment of Federal Troops Against the American

People.” On this week's installment of Prison Pipeline we hea...

Karen James speaks with Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner for IP44, the Drug

Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act which has just qualified for the

November 2020 ballot. Oregon ranks nearly last in the nation for access to

drug treatment, yet about one in 11 people in Oregon...

Please join us this week on Prison Pipeline as we talk with Green Party

Presidential Candidate Howie Hawkins as we discuss the police use of force

and strategies for ending mass incarceration on Prison Pipeline.  Hawkins, a

longtime advocate of criminal justice reform, has ...

This week on Prison Pipeline, the demands of the Portland protesters and

information on a coalition forming in Washington County focused on Defunding

the police.

 

We speak to Jahdi Portland based, Rapper, Visual Artist, Organizer, and

Hooper who has been active in the Po...

This week on Prison Pipeline: Federal police out of control on the streets of

Portland, plus we hear Aqeela Sherrills, director of the Newark Community

Street Team, speaking on a panel organized by the Open Society Foundation

entitled How Authoritarianism Fuels The War On D...

Please join us this week on Prison Pipeline  for an equal time interview as

we talk with Jo Rae Perkins, Republican candidate for US Senate about her

positions on federal policy issues regarding incarceration and legislation as

it applies to a wide range of justice issues i...

We remember James Chasse with voices from the film Alien Boy: the Life and

Death of James Chasse. In May 2020 an online screening of the film was

presented by Mental Health Association of Portland with an after-film

discussion led by film producer Jason Renaud and filmmaker...

Adam Carpinelli will interview Trish Jordan with Red Lodge Transition

Services, a Native American led organization providing culturally focused

programs for women releasing from jail, prison or treatment.  

More information: https://redlodgetransition.org

The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony recently on policing practices

and law enforcement Accountability. On this installment of Prison Pipeline we

hear from three of the witnesses: Benjamin Crump, civil rights attorney,

founder of the national law firm Ben Crump Law...