The new Red Lodge Transition Center for Women will soon open its doors to
Native and non-Native women upon return from treatment centers, jails and
prison returning to Clackamas County. Host Karen James visited the Center and
spoke with Trish Jordon, Executive Director, Red...
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Mental Health Care Not Policing
Host Emma Lugo visits with Buckley and Maria from Critical Resistance
Portland to talk about the Mental Health Care Not Policing campaign CR is
currently engaged in. Critical Resistance is a national prison abolition
organization started ove...
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Karen James interviews Jessica Katz, the director of the Family Preservation
Project (FPP) at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, and Nova
Sweet, a former participant of the program. FPP is a program of the YWCA of
Greater Portland that uses a holistic, fami...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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