Host Karen James speaks with Braunwynn Franklin, a Peer Support Specialist
with a history of mental illness. She served 10 years in a Michigan prison
where she was mandated to treatment. When she realized the prison could not
provide her with the treatment she felt she...
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Host Karen James is joined by Jessica Katz, director of the Family
Preservation Project (FPP), and by Shanoa Williams and Vanessa Sherrod, both
FPP alumni who were recently released from Coffee Creek Correctional
Facility. The Family Preservation Project , a program of ...
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With opioid overdose a leading cause of death following prison release, a new
program was launched in June 2019 to prevent opioid overdose among women who
are released from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only
women’s prison.
Host Karen James interviews El...
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Adam Carpinelli interviews Maru Mora from La Resistencia and Latino Advocacy
about the campaign to shut down the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma,
Washington.
More Information: https://www.nwdcresistance.org
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Prison Pipeline’s 1-hour Membership Drive Special focuses on the historic
passage of SB 1008 by the 2019 Oregon Legislature. Host Karen James is
joined by Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, a Community Healing Initiative Family Care
Manager for PortlandOIC + Rosemary Anderson High ...
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Karen James interviews Joel Greenberg, attorney with Disability Rights Oregon
(DRO), author of a new report: “Independent Investigation of the Death of
Michael Barton: Mental Illness & Medical Neglect in an Oregon Prison.”
Michael Barton was a 54-year old prisoner in th...
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Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, Managing Attorney for the Mental
Health Rights Project at Disability Rights Oregon, about her new report, The
“Unwanteds”: Looking for help, Landing in jail. An analysis of how
trespass arrests at Portland-area hospitals criminaliz...
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