Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

  With You on the Journey was a performance of monologues written by family members of people in prison, it included 11 monologues by 10 family members. The performance was the culmination of six writing workshops and was held at The First Unitarian Church of Portland o... Read more

Karen James interviews Laura Speer, associate director for Policy Reform Advocacy at the Annie E Casey Foundation, the nation’s leading organization for the overall well-being of children. Over 5 million children nationwide have had an incarcerated parent. The loss of a ... Read more

Adam Carpinelli will interview activist Ben Turk.  A long term activist supporting all prisoners including Political Prisoners, Turk is connected to several different movements and organizations working around national prisoner strikes.  We will discuss the upcoming Sept... Read more

Kirk Bloodsworth, Death Row DNA Exoneree In 1985, Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was sentenced to die in a Maryland penitentiary for the brutal rape and murder of 9 year old Dawn Hamilton. A crime he did not commit.  He had witnesses who could place him at home at the time of th... Read more

Incarceration separates families. Holidays like Mother's Day can bring this separation into sharp relief for mothers whose children are in prison and for mothers who are in prison without their children. This separation from social life is one of the aims of incarceratio... Read more

Join hosts Amy Johnson, Adam Carpinelli, Emma Lugo and others for this special Spring Fundraiser Edition of Prison Pipeline.  Prison Pipeline is hosted on KBOO community radio, 90.7 Fm and KBOO needs your support to maintain operations.  Unique community programming like... Read more

Co-hosts Emma Lugo and Mindi Griffiths interview Becky Mer and Andi Martin about arts programs within the Prison System. Becky Mer of the Prison Arts Coalition will discuss the arts in prison and how artists can get involved. Andi Martin, the wife of an incarcerated arti... Read more

Doug McVay interviews Jason Ziedenberg, Director of Policy and Research of the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank committed to reducing society's reliance on incarceration. Ziedenberg, a former employee of the Multnomah County Department of Com... Read more

Karen James interviews Terry Moss, police chief of St. Helens, Oregon. A Washington Post investigation revealed that of all fatal shootings by police in 2015, almost one quarter involved a person who was mentally unstable. Terry Moss, who promotes Crisis Intervention Tra... Read more