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Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a program that was first developed in King County/Seattle, WA. According to the LEAD National Bureau: In a LEAD® program, police officers exercise discretionary authority at point of contact to divert individuals to a community... Read more

Breaking ICE: Abolishing the Detention Industrial Complex   Adam Carpinelli interviews Antonio Zamora a local Portland, Oregon community organizer.  Zamora was one of the founders of the recent #occupyice encampment in Portland which has since been replicated in other ma... Read more

Ebony Howard, a certified recovery mentor and formerly incarcerated mother, and Jessica Katz, the director of the Family Preservation Project, describe a new project they are launching to honor and support women as they release from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Or... Read more

  This week on Prison Pipeline: Rodney Patrick McNeal was a probation office, a father, a graduate student and a home owner. On March 9, 1997, he came home to find his wife dead. That day changed his life forever and he was wrongly convicted. He has been wrongly convic... Read more

On June 12, 2018 the Uhuru Sasa Cultural Club held its annual Talent Show inside the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.  Host Karen James recorded the show at OSP and interviewed the men about their performances.      Uhuru Sasa, which means ‘Freedom Now’ in Swahili, is ... Read more

Oregon voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. Fifteen years later, in 2013, the state legislature legalized medical marijuana dispensaries -- between 100 and 200 were operating illegally in the state at the time -- and set up a framework for regulating t... Read more