Prison Pipeline

Carlos Chavez hosts with a focus on artistic expression within the Oregon

Youth Authority at MacLaren Youth Corrections. Students share their talents

and speak on the how the arts help them to cope, give voice and freedom.

https://www.oregon.gov/oya/pages/facilities/maclare...

Adam Carpinelli will interview Libretto.  Watts transplant and Portland

resident Libretto has been making his mark on the Hip-Hop landscape since

2003 with his appearance on the Spirit In Stone LP (Quannum) by his Misfit

Massive crew members, Lifesavas. Regrettably, while...

Milenio is an organization that facilitates the involvement of Latinos at all

levels of public decision-making and politics. Milenio strives to improve

education outcomes, advocate for immigration reform, incarceration, women's

rights, LGBT rights, political innovation and ...

Over the last decade, half the states where 16-or-17-year-olds (or both) were

under adult court jurisdiction “raised the age” so that justice system

involved young people are served by the juvenile justice system, cutting the

number of youth in the adult system by about hal...

On March 14, 2017 the Uhuru Sasa Cultural Club held its annual Talent Show

inside the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.  Tonight you’ll hear rap,

acoustic, and original work performed by the men at OSP.    

Uhuru Sasa, which means ‘Freedom Now’ in Swahili, is a Club by an...

Adam Carpinelli interviews Anna Debenham.  Anna works with prisoners at the

Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland as a life skills educator

in collaboration with Phoenix Rising Transition Services.  They

have created a series of programs for prisoners that are...

Host Karen James interviews Julia Yoshimoto, an attorney with Oregon Justice

Resource Center, about her new report, Unlocking Measure 57, which explains

how the development of Oregon criminal laws over the last few decades has

widened the net of defendants who receive manda...

Disability Rights Oregon recently published a new report that finds

individuals with mental illness held at Multnomah County Detention Center

experience significant physical and mental harm. The report recommends steps

that the jail should take to better meet the needs of p...

On Monday, Feb. 27, a coalition of Multnomah County and Portland officials

and social service agencies announced that local law enforcement would begin

a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD).

LEAD was first developed in King County, Seattle, WA in 2011. LEAD is...

Karen James interviews Shannon Wight, Deputy Director for Partnership for

Safety Justice, about PSJ’s Lobby Day on April 3, 2017 in Salem,

Oregon. 

Help families stay together so children can be with their parents as they

achieve accountability through supervision, ser...