Prison Pipeline

Host Carlos Chavez sits down with youth at MacLaren Youth corrections for an

intimate discussion about their experiences transitioning through the

juvenile justice system. They talk about the ongoing changes within

corrections that they’ve faced during those years as well t...

The Justice Reinvestment Summit and What Works in Public Safety Conference

were held jointly in February 2017 in Salem, Oregon.  One event presenter,

Judge Frederick Block, US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of

New York, discussed the profusion of collateral c...

Host Emma Lugo speaks with Anna Debenham, a counselor and advocate for

recently and currently incarcerated persons, and with former insiders and

gang members, Karl Armstrong and Brandon Brown, members of Phoenix Rising

Transitions who recently paroled after being in prison ...

Public awareness and concern about over-criminalization and

over-incarceration has grown significantly in recent years but much of that

attention is focused in the wrong places. What happens at the national level

tends to be in the spotlight much of the time, despite the fa...

On June 21st, the Liberation Literacy reading group at Columbia River

Correctional Institution (CRCI) interviewed National Book Award winner and

historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi about his book Stamped from the Beginning: The

Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

Liber...

On May 25th, 2017 men housed in building four of the Administrative

Segregation Units at Folsom State Prison in California began a hunger strike.

Host Amy Johnson will get an update on the situation one month since the

start of the strike. These are the nine demands of the ...

Join co-host Emma Lugo with guests Esther and Buckley of Critical Resistance

PDX about strategies to interrupt the police as first responders to people

experiencing mental health crisis.  Critical Resistance Portland (CR-PDX) is

developing a campaign to interrupt the use of...

In 1994, four women in San Antonio, Texas, were arrested and charged with

heinous crimes. The women -- working class Latina lesbians -- were accused of

raping two young girls, They were tried, convicted in 1997, and sentenced to

decades in state prison.

Just one problem: T...

Disability Rights Oregon attorneys Bob Joondeph (Executive Director) and Joel

Greenberg join host Karen James to discuss DRO’s report “Behind the

Eleventh Door: One Year Later”, released in April 2017 that found the

Oregon State Penitentiary fell short of its goal to improv...

The Federal Prison Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Surviving the Federal

Bureau of Prisons, was published in February 2017 and was written by

Christopher Zoukis who has been incarcerated for more than 10 years and is

currently serving time in a federal prison in Virginia....