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 hous...
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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 district...
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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 matte...
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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 Coun...
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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 ne...
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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 the...
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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 Eliza...
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