Host Karen James speaks with Mark Leymon, Ph.D., professor of Criminology and
Criminal Justice-Urban & Public Affairs at Portland State University. A
quantitative research methodologist and justice policy researcher, Dr. Leymon
discusses his research on the effects of sente...
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Host Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director, and
Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, Senior Policy Manager, with Partnership for Safety &
Justice and Safety and Justice Oregon. They discuss their advocacy work plans
for the 2025 Oregon Legislative session and past accomp...
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Host Karen James speaks with Alex Coven, attorney with Oregon Justice
Resource Center’s Women’s Justice Project (OJRC), about his new “Guide
to Court-Ordered Financial Obligations in Oregon Criminal Courts.” When
someone gets in trouble with the law in Oregon, they may have...
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On September 2, 2024, host Karen James spoke with people at the annual Hands
Across the Bridge event about addiction, recovery and deflection. In 2020
Oregonians, realizing that arresting and punishing people for drug use is a
failed approach, passed Measure 110 which decr...
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Host Karen James speaks with Alex Coven, attorney with Oregon Justice
Resource Center (OJRC), about his new “Guide to Court-Ordered Financial
Obligations in Oregon Criminal Courts.” When someone gets in trouble with
the law in Oregon, they may have to pay fines, fees, or re...
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In June 2024 the Mental Health Association of Portland held its Law & Mental
Health Conference with a focus on psychosis. Joanna Naples-Mitchell presented
“Why ‘Excited Delirium’ is a Fraud”. In March 2022, Physicians for
Human Rights published a report which she co-author...
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Host Karen James speaks with Andrés Oswill with Portland for All, an
organization with programs that address the root causes of the toughest
issues facing Portland. We reflect about Mike Schmidt, who lost his bid for
a second term as district attorney of Multnomah County, a...
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Host Karen James speaks with Sarah Bieri, Staff Attorney, and Julia
Yoshimoto, Senior Advisor and Director of OJRC’s Women’s Justice Project,
who have released Death by a Thousand Cuts Volume 2, their ongoing report
series on conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility...
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Host Karen James speaks with Hunter, a Portland attorney, whose wife was
found dead on October 20, 2023, at their Portland residence. An autopsy
conducted by the Multnomah County Medical Examiner revealed suspicious
circumstances and further investigation led to the Novembe...
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Host Karen James speaks with Dave Boyer, managing attorney with Disability
Rights Oregon, who filed a lawsuit against Washington County, Oregon’s 2nd
largest county. The federal lawsuit was filed after a year-long investigation
alleging that when someone in the County exper...
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