Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

Karen James is joined in a one-hour special by Johnny Stallings, Executive Director of Open Hearts Open Minds.  After giving performances at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon, Johnny began facilitating weekly dialogues with the inmates.  In 2008, at... Read more

 Karen James with Judy and Rima, volunteers in the Oregon Department of Corrections who teach Sustainable Gardening Classes donated by Oregon State University Extension Services.  ODOC reports that 2,596 volunteers contribute 400,000 hours annually in Oregon’s 14 prisons... Read more

Peter Pincetl discusses the Oregon Law Center's new Project SCRUB with Benjamin Ybarra. Project SCRUB (Scrubbing Criminal Records to Unlock Barriers) helps low-income residents with arrests and convictions in Washington County expunge their criminal records. http://www... Read more

Karen James with David Leslie, Executive Director, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon.  The California prisoner hunger strike to end indefinite solitary confinement was suspended after 60 days.  More prisoners are held in solitary confinement in the United States than in an... Read more

 Bringing Down the New Jim Crow:  A New Way of Life and the New Underground RailroadFrom the documentary series produced by Chris Moore-Backman, Bringing Down the New Jim Crow explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States dur... Read more

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An update from Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, on the California prisoner hunger strike which began on July 8th.  The prisoners are demanding an end to indefinite solitary confinement which the United Nations considers torture.  On 8/19 a fe... Read more

Karen James with Delphine Criscenzo and Liysa Swart discuss the making of a video produced by Delphine entitled “Lay Down Your Life. The Cost of Freedom” featuring Liysa Swart and Louise Bauschard, Voices Set Free.  Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/68270692Hear Liysa’s... Read more

Peter Pincetl interviews Zachariah Blott of New Freedom College, a nonprofit college that provides affordable 4-year college education available to inmates.  Their program is designed for inmates and priced for inmates who want a true college education, offering a print-... Read more

Solitary Confinement and the California Prisoner Hunger Strike.  Excerpts from The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari, KPFA, Berkeley.   Guests are Carol Strickman, a staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Terry Kupers, M.D., psychiatrist with the Wri... Read more