Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

Karen James interviews Paul Solomon, Executive Director, Sponsors Inc. Sponsors Inc. provides transitional housing and employment opportunities to people who are released from Oregon prisons and jail in Lane County Oregon. Since 1973, Sponsors has been the model in evide... Read more

Carlos Chavez interviews Dr. Jennifer Woolard and the topic is Juvenile Incarceration and Reentry in the Context of Adolescent Brain Development. Dr. Woolard is an assistant professor at Georgetown’s department of Psychology. She is a developmental and community psycho... Read more

Host Patty Katz talks with Dorsey Nunn,  co-founder of All of Us Are None,  an advocacy group dedicated to voters rights and other civil liberties for incarcerated individuals.  The discussion involves the Pelican Bay hunger strike,  the effects of solitary confinement, ... Read more

Patty Katz speaks with formerly incarcerated people, Micheal and Donny, about their work to help others transition back to their communities Read more

Host Peter Pincetl talks with Merilee Schillinger about her involvement in the Rising Star Toastmaster's and their work with Coffee Creek. Read more

Host Grace E Reed discusses with Michelle Fabian the issue of sexual assualt in corrections facilities.  This all-too-common phenomenon -- inmates sexually assaulted by guards and by other inmates, predatory behavior within the confines of a prison -- spurred Congress ... Read more

Host KAREN JAMES with Jeffrey Chilson, DDA Outreach Specialist; Corbett Monica of Dual Diagnosis Anonymous of Oregon; and Ginger Martin, Assistant Director, Department of Corrections Transitional Services. Studies show that almost three-quarters of prisoners with mental di... Read more

MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is the largest youth prison in Oregon. The majority of the youth housed there serve long sentences of five years or more. While serving time there, the youth live on units referred to as cottages. These are basically dorms that th... Read more

  "In this episode, Megan Vosk asks a local professor to share her knowledge about gendered   pathways to crime. Emily Salisbury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology   at Portland State University who teaches a class called "Women, Crime, and J... Read more

Larry Johnson and Louise Wedge of HARRP Join host Peter Pincetl as he discusses the Highland Access, Recovery and Reentry Program (HARRP) with Larry Johnson and Louise Wedge. HARRP's goals are to help formerly incarcerated people become successful, reunite with their lo... Read more