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We Can Avoid a New Women's Prison in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 10/31/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Amy Johnson speaks with Alice Lundell and Julia Yoshimoto of the Oregon Justice Resource Center about their report "An Alternative to Women's Prison Expansion in Oregon". This report offers six concrete proposals that if implemented could reduce the number of women ... Read more

New Directions In Drug Policy

Airs at: Sun, 10/30/2016 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The New Mexico State Legislature is currently between sessions. They are still at work however, with several committees holding intersessional hearings for informational purposes and to potentially shape future policies. On Friday October 28, the state's Legislative Heal... Read more

Women In Prison, Part One

Airs at: Mon, 10/24/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
The Oregon Justice Resource Center recently held its Women In Prison Conference at Lewis & Clark College School of Law in Portland, Oregon. In part one of our coverage, we speak with Bobbin Singh, the Executive Director of OJRC; Ailene Farkac, with MercyCorps NW's Reentr... Read more

Solitary Confinement Within These Walls

Airs at: Mon, 10/17/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
‘The Bucket’, what prisoners call solitary confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, is a play created and performed by prisoners at OSP.  This play inspired Within These Walls, an event held in Portland on September 28th.  Prison volunteer and entertainment... Read more

No New County Jails

Airs at: Mon, 10/10/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Emma Lugo will speak with Prison abolition activist Coral Wrap about the long struggle to close the San Francisco municipal jail, transform the culture in municipal San Francisco from incarceration and punishment to critical assessment of community needs and address poli... Read more

D.A. Underhill discusses LEAD program

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
At the ROAR Alliance monthly meeting on August 31st, Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill presented plans to bring the LEAD program to Portland. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a pre-booking diversion pilot program developed with the community to... Read more

Youth Moving Beyond Detention

Airs at: Mon, 09/26/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Carlos Chavez features the MacLaren youth in a podcast from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.  Kevin Le, the head instructor of Morpheus Youth Project’s break dance program, along with others, will talk about teaching break dancing at the Multnom... Read more

Building a Movement Inside & Outside: Reflections on September 9th

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli will interview national, local and regional organizers from groups like Black Lives Matters, Anarchist Black Cross and the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee about organizing for the September 9, 2016 call for a national prisoner strike. Organizers... Read more

Autism and the Criminal Justice System

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Prison Pipeline 6:30 pm, Monday, Sept 12 Emma Lugo hosts part two of a roundtable discussion at on the subject of Autism and the Criminal Justice System from the perspectives of people deeply engaged in raising awareness and advocating for people who are diagnosed with... Read more

Taking the LEAD

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a pre-booking diversion pilot program. It was originally developed with the community to address low-level drug and prostitution crimes in the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle and the Skyway area of unincorporated King County.... Read more