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Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director of ACLU of Oregon,

about his 2019 report “A Peek Behind The Curtain: Shining Some Light on

District Attorney Policies in Oregon” and promotes HB 3224, passed in the

2019 Oregon Legislature, that requires every district...

Joking around Behind Bars: Comedy Arts Education Inside Prisons

Adam Carpinelli interviews Roshani Thakore with the Columbia River

Correctional Institution (CRCI) Comedy School.  This project is includes

weekly comedy classes and quarterly comedy shows inside the walls of...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Daniel McGowan.  Daniel is an environmental and

social justice activist from Queens, NY. He was charged in 2005 with 15

counts of arson, property destruction and conspiracy, all related to two

actions in Oregon in 2000, claimed by the Earth Libera...

On February 27th, Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ) held its annual

Lobby Day in Salem, Oregon.  PSJ Lobby Day 2020 was its largest to date with

participants from across Oregon converging in Salem to help ensure that their

legislators hear about the values that matte...

Please join us this week on Prison Pipeline as we speak with Paul Wright on

the potential crisis of Coronavirus in the prison system. Wright is Director

of the Human Rights Defense Center which educates the public on issues of

concern to the prison industrial complex and...

On January 22, 2020 Oregon Humanities held the second event in its Portland

Think Drink series. Making Democracy focused on democracy, justice, and the

courts with three major figures in criminal justice in Oregon: Oregon

Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson, Benton Coun...

Please join us this week on KBOO community radio for Prison Pipeline as we

talk with Julia Lazareck of Friends and Family of Incarcerated Persons.

Friends and Family of Incarcerated persons exists to help family members and

community who are left behind when the criminal ju...

Host Karen James speaks with Braunwynn Franklin, a Peer Support Specialist

with a history of mental illness.  She served 10 years in a Michigan prison

where she was mandated to treatment.  When she realized the prison could not

provide her with the treatment she felt she ne...

Host Amy Johnson speaks with Beaverton Municipal Court Presiding Judge,

Juliet Britton; Kevin Boone, Specialty Court Coordinator for the City of

Beaverton; and Jay Auslander, Jail Diversion Systems Coordinator for

Washington County. The topic: a new specialty court in Beave...

Host Karen James is joined by Jessica Katz, director of the Family

Preservation Project (FPP), and by Shanoa Williams and Vanessa Sherrod, both

FPP alumni who were recently released from Coffee Creek Correctional

Facility.  The Family Preservation Project , a program of the...