As wildfires raged across Oregon, about 2,600 prisoners were evacuated from
four prisons. Prisoners and family members reported conditions during the
evacuations as unsafe, unsanitary and alarming; some called them
‘inhumane’. Host Karen James speaks with Oregon attorney...
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Karen James speaks with Biff Chaplow from Beyond These Walls, a Trans led
organization that offers a number of programs to support LGBTQ prisoners in
Oregon and Washington. Beyond These Walls manages a COVID-19 Hotline
(503-329-9740). They collaborate with other commun...
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Karen James speaks with Anthony Johnson, Chief Petitioner for IP44, the Drug
Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act which has just qualified for the
November 2020 ballot. Oregon ranks nearly last in the nation for access to
drug treatment, yet about one in 11 people in Ore...
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We remember James Chasse with voices from the film Alien Boy: the Life and
Death of James Chasse. We’ll also hear a discussion from a May 2020
online screening of the film led by film producer Jason Renaud and filmmaker
Brian Lindstrom with newly elected Multnomah Count...
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We remember James Chasse with voices from the film Alien Boy: the Life and
Death of James Chasse. In May 2020 an online screening of the film was
presented by Mental Health Association of Portland with an after-film
discussion led by film producer Jason Renaud and filmma...
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Karen James interviews Sarah Radcliffe, attorney with Disability Rights
Oregon, who released her new report “Oregon Jails During COVID-19: a look
inside 26 county jails” on April 30th. In response to COVID-19, Oregon
county jails released nearly half their jail populati...
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Karen James speaks with Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ) and Safety
and Justice Oregon Deputy Director Shannon Wight and Communications Director
Talia Gad. They’ll discuss the May 2020 races for county district
attorneys and ballot measures including the Metro h...
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Karen James interviews David Rogers, Executive Director of ACLU of Oregon,
about his 2019 report “A Peek Behind The Curtain: Shining Some Light on
District Attorney Policies in Oregon” and promotes HB 3224, passed in the
2019 Oregon Legislature, that requires every distr...
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On February 27th, Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ) held its annual
Lobby Day in Salem, Oregon. PSJ Lobby Day 2020 was its largest to date with
participants from across Oregon converging in Salem to help ensure that their
legislators hear about the values that ma...
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On January 22, 2020 Oregon Humanities held the second event in its Portland
Think & Drink series. Making Democracy focused on democracy, justice, and the
courts with three major figures in criminal justice in Oregon: Oregon
Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson, Benton C...
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