Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

Karen James with Dr. Audrey Terrell, President, Portland NAACP, and Kelvin Hall, public advocate for the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform (AMA Coalition). In September 2012, after a 15-month investigation, the U.S. Dept. of Justice Civi... Read more

Adam Carpinelli with Jihad Abdulmimit, National Jericho Amnesty Movement. Jericho is a movement with the defined goal of gaining recognition of the fact that political prisoners and prisoners of war exist inside of the United States, despite the United States’ government... Read more

Peter Pincetl with Frank Thompson, retired Superintendent of Oregon State Penitentiary who supervised the only two Oregon executions in the past 50 years. Upon retirement Thompson joined with Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and now works to repeal the la... Read more

 Johnny Stallings, Open Hearts Open Minds Executive Director, narrates prisoners’ performance of King Lear. In October 2013 the 5th annual theatrical performance directed by Stallings was performed at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon. Stallings, a ... Read more

Peter Pincetl with Dan Herman, 211info CEO. Every year more than 275,000 people searching for resources dial 211, access 211info.org, text their zip code to 898211 or email--all toll-free and confidential. The nonprofit 211info covers Oregon and Southwest Washington meet... Read more

This year we saw significant changes from sentencing reform, to drug policy, to how people are treated behind bars. This edition of KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley's Making Contact looks at victories in the struggle to bring humanity to the world’s largest prison industrial comple... Read more

Peter Pincetl with Doug Cooper and Felton Howard, Jr., Reentry Transition Center.  The RTC helps people successfully transition back to their communities after incarceration.  Over 150 individuals are released from prison into Multnomah County each year.  Former prisoner... Read more

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