Prison Pipeline

On this week's edition of Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay is joined

by Julia Yoshimoto, Attorney and Project Director at the Oregon Justice

Resource Center, and Alice Lundell, OJRC Director of Communication, to talk

about the Women's Justice Project and HerStory Oregon.

H...

Karen James interviews Jay Auslander, the Jail Diversion Systems Coordinator

in Washington County, Oregon.  Jail diversion helps divert individuals away

from jail and provide links to community-based treatment and support

services.  Jay coordinates the systems of mental hea...

Our newest Prison Pipeline host Nicole Solomon Lindahl interviews her friend

and local activist, Melissa Salazar, and her brother Marcus, who calls in

from a prison in Texas where he is serving a 5-10 year sentence.  They focus

on Melissa's experience supporting her brother...

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Monday, February 26 6:30pm PST

Please join us on Monday, February 26 at 6:30pm as co-host Emma Lugo

interviews Helen Caddes about the exoneration of Kirstin Blaise Lobato. 

Lobato spent 17 years in prison for a wrongful conviction.  Incarcerated

w...

Many people experience trauma in their lives, trauma that can have a lasting

impact. Law enforcement officers and emergency services personnel experience

trauma on a regular basis. While we expect police and EMTs to meet a standard

of physical fitness and health in order to...

Adam Carpinelli interviews folks from The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons

(or FTP). This project began in 2015, focusing on the effort to stop

construction of a new federal prison in the coalfields of East Kentucky. It

is also currently focused on opposing a phosphate mine ...

Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, an attorney with Disability Rights

Oregon, about her investigative report “Don’t Look Around”: A Window

into Inhumane Conditions for Youth at NORCOR, that found that kids held at

the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NOR...

This week on Prison Pipeline co-host Emma Lugo interviews Rachel Wallis of

the Coffee Creek Quilters. The Coffee Creek Quilters teaches quilting classes

to women incarcerated at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in

Wilsonville, Oregon. Since 2002, they have provided a ...

On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a

performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was

a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and

Culture Council. The project conceived of and organized ...

Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director of Partnership for

Safety Justice, about PSJ’s legislative agenda for 2018.  This year will

be a short legislative session and PSJ hopes to reinforce the reform work

that was accomplished in 2017 and prior years.  Thi...