Prison Pipeline

This week on Prison Pipeline, co-host Emma Lugo brings listeners a roundup of

important stories shaping the prison pipeline in Oregon and beyond. Tune in

Monday, March 9 at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM in Portland, or

streaming online at kboo.fm. This week...

Host Karen James speaks with Sandy Chung, Executive Director of ACLU Oregon,

who recently won an emergency order in their “Portland Chicken” v. Trump

lawsuit to stop the Dept. of Homeland Security officers from retaliating

against Portland ICE facility protesters. Sandy ...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Jalil Muntaqim, former Political Prisoner,

co-founder of The Jericho Movement and Spirit of Mandela.  Discussion

focuses on the legacy of struggle for Black and Brown people,

self-determination and new form of governance.  Muntaqim launches his...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Unmasking ICE.

The United States is under siege by gangs of heavily armed goons, identities

concealed by masks, assaulting and killing innocent people with impunity.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, America’s Gestapo, whatever ...

Tonight on Prison Pipeline, we turn our focus to hunger, poverty, and state

policy in Oregon. Host Emma Lugo speaks with Andrea Williams, President of

the Oregon Food Bank, about the release of the organization’s 2026 State of

Hunger Report and what the latest data revea...

The national spotlight has been on Minneapolis as ICE and border patrol

escalate efforts to detain and deport immigrant community members. We mourn

the loss of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, murdered by these federal cowards in

masks with guns. In Oregon, the work continues...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Oregon Legislative Preview.

The Oregon Legislature’s 2026 session begins on February 2 and will last

for only 35 days. Oregon has a part-time legislature, they’re in session

for 160 days in odd-numbered years and just 35 days in even-nu...

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...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Resisting the Empire.

Cities across the United States are under siege by an out-of-control

autocratic federal government and its gun-toting goons. So far in the month

of January, a federal agent named Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole...

This Monday, January 5 at 6:30pm, Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio

features an in-depth interview with journalist and author Nell Bernstein,

whose reporting has helped transform the national conversation about youth

incarceration. Over the past twenty years, the U...