Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

Karen James speaks with David, Zack, Cary and others at Right to Dream Too and Sisters of the Road Café about their lives after incarceration and the unfair and unreasonable barriers to housing and employment for people with criminal records. www.bantheboxcampaign.org Read more

Peter Pincetl with Jeremiah Stromberg, Assistant Director, Oregon Department of Corrections, Community Corrections Division, discuss the newly passed HB3194, legislation that made sweeping changes to the Oregon Justice System. Read more

“Ending the New Jim Crow--Healing the Justice System” panel of community leaders held at First Unitarian Church, Portland, November 5, 2013. Panelists: Jo Ann Hardesty, former state representative, co-founder/organizer of the Portland Campaign to End the New Jim Crow;Sha... Read more

Excerpts from Angela Davis’ presentation at the University of Chicago on Feminism and Abolition.  Herman Wallace: Revolutionary; Mumia Abu-Jamal’s message for his memorial.   “Prisons are constituted as normal.  It takes a lot of work to persuade people to think beyond t... Read more

Peter Pincetl sits down with Martha Duncan-Perez, chair of the Washington County Reentry Council, for an annual check in on the progress of this community based group. One of their most important efforts at this point, work around expungement, is really taking off. Read more

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