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Karen James speaks with Liz Reetz, a public interest law fellow with Disability Rights Oregon, who just released her new report “Grave Consequences: How the Criminalization of Disability Leads to Deaths in Jail”.  The report revealed that most of the people who died in O... Read more

The Council on Criminal Justice Task Force on Policing recently released a set of policy assessments that advise lawmakers to ban chokeholds, prohibit or severely restrict the use of no-knock warrants, and require officers to intervene when they see peers and supervisors... Read more

Please join us as we talk with Ethan Stout on Supporting Youth of Incarcerated Native Families.  Stout is the website manager and project coordinator for MyRedRoad.Com supporting youth of incarcerated Native families.  My Red Road is a collaboration between Stout and Bob... Read more

On April 12,  1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffere... Read more

Adam Carpinelli interviews Amanda Trujillo with Portland Freedom Fund (PFF).  PFF is a volunteer-run abolitionist organization currently dedicated to reducing harms perpetuated against our Black, Brown and Indigenous neighbors by the criminal justice system through posti... Read more

This week on Prison Pipeline: Covid-19: The Continuing Crisis. Thomas Abt, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and Director of the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice, talks about the new report “Experience To Action: Reshaping Criminal Jus... Read more

Please join us as we talk with author Damien Linnane this week on Prison Pipeline.  Damien Linnane was born in Sydney, Australia. His debut novel, Scarred, was written by hand while he was in prison, for crimes the sentencing magistrate described as ‘vigilante action’. S... Read more

Join Prison Pipeline hosts to hear holiday messages to and from your loved ones in prison.    Read more

Please join us as we talk with Mitigation Specialist Victoria Rusk this week on Prison Pipeline.  Mitigation in criminal defense is the 'why' behind the crime. It tells the accused person’s story and asks a judge or jury to consider the significant life circumstances lea... Read more