Prison Pipeline

Adam Carpinelli interviews Antonio Zamora and other local Portland, Oregon

community organizers who were recent participants of the #occupyice

encampment in Portland, Oregon which has since been replicated in other major

urban centers across the U.S.  The group’s message re...

On May 31 more than 120 immigrant detainees were shipped to a Federal prison

in Sheridan, Oregon under the inhumane zero tolerance policy of the fascist

Trump administration.  The zero tolerance policy is a racist, xenophobic

policy promoted by right wing Christan Nation...

Discussion about the Supreme Court, reproductive rights, and the efforts by

some to use the criminal justice system to control people's lives and health

featuring Lynn Paltrow with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and

acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law Pro...

Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a program that was first

developed in King County/Seattle, WA. According to the LEAD National Bureau:

In a LEAD® program, police officers exercise discretionary authority at

point of contact to divert individuals to a community-b...

Breaking ICE: Abolishing the Detention Industrial Complex

 

Adam Carpinelli interviews Antonio Zamora a local Portland, Oregon community

organizer.  Zamora was one of the founders of the recent #occupyice

encampment in Portland which has since been replicated in other majo...

Ebony Howard, a certified recovery mentor and formerly incarcerated mother,

and Jessica Katz, the director of the Family Preservation Project, describe a

new project they are launching to honor and support women as they release

from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Orego...

This week on Prison Pipeline:

Rodney Patrick McNeal was a probation office, a father, a graduate student

and a home owner. On March 9, 1997, he came home to find his wife dead. That

day changed his life forever and he was wrongly convicted. He has been

wrongly convicted...

Oregon voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. Fifteen years

later, in 2013, the state legislature legalized medical marijuana

dispensaries -- between 100 and 200 were operating illegally in the state at

the time -- and set up a framework for regulating them...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Kevin Steele.  Steele is based in New York city

where he works with several local and national organizations working to end

prison slavery, the prison industrial complex and to free Political

Prisoners.  He will draw on his experiences as formerly...

Host Emma Lugo interviews Paul Wright of the Human Rights Defense Center

about the exorbitant fees prisoners families are being charged just to visit

them, as well as catching up on what is happening with immigration detention,

prisoner health care and institutional incenti...