Prison Pipeline
MISSION STATEMENTPrison Pipeline is a radio program dedicated to educating the public about the Oregon criminal justice system. Topics include incarceration and re-entry, addictions and mental health, elections and laws, victims' rights, and criminal justice reform. Guests range from service providers, state and county administrators, advocates and educators to people currently and formerly in prison and their loved ones. Our goal is to present a unique understanding of the criminal justice system, address the root causes of crime, and challenge the status quo. We seek to promote awareness and activism in order to foster a safe, healthy, and just society.
Tune in every Monday evening at 6:30 to hear our hosts Carlos Chavez, Karen James, and Peter Pincetl explore the Oregon justice system with a variety of guests. Hosts rotate weekly. Prison Pipeline's engineer is Danielle Parks.
UPCOMING SHOWS
5/27/13, Monday, 6:30 PM
Carlos Chavez interviews Stephen Manning, a partner at Immigrant Law Group PC and a consulting attorney for the Consulate of Mexico in Portland, Oregon. http://kboo.fm/content/prisonpipelineon052713
6/3/13, Monday, 6:30 PM
Peter Pincetl with John Pahlke, Manager & Recruiter at Aerotek Commercial Staffing in Portland, discuss employment after incarceration. http://kboo.fm/content/prisonpipelineon060313
6/10/13, Monday, 6:30 PM
Karen James with Trish Jordan, Executive Director of Red Lodge Transition Services. Red Lodge helps Native women rebuild their lives after incarceration, often helping them reconnect to Native spirituality and culture. http://kboo.fm/content/prisonpipelineon061013
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MacLaren Youth Radio Journalism Part II
Carlos Chavez hosts part two of a two part series on the 2012 highlights of his radio journalism group in MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility.
This time they focus on a field recording exercise that was done by one of the students. He interviews Steve Llanes from the Office of Minority Services and other youth as they prepare for one of the sweat lodge ceremonies at MacLaren.
Carlos facilitates educational workshops at MacLaren for the youth incarcerated there. MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is the largest facility in Oregon for incarcerating youth. Most of these youth face sentences ranging from 3 to 7 years or longer. During their time on the facility these young men have access to a high school education, college courses and job skills training.
Through an organization called Hope Partnership they are offered additional workshops and classes that expose the youth to creative outlets, literacy and cultural awareness. Morpheus Youth Project, a fiscally sponsored non profit that Carlos runs, collaborates with Hope Partnership to facilitate a Radio Journalism Class (as well as other workshops).
Take a peek into what they were involved in this last year.
Check out the MYP page on Facebook here for more current details.
- Genre: Other
- Length: 28:08 minutes (38.63 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 12/10/2012 w/ Dave Dahl from Daves Killer Bread Hosted by Grace E. Reed
In this segment of Prison Pipeline, host Grace E. Reed talks to Dave Dahl and friends from Dave's Killer Bread about the journey from inside the corrections system into owning and operating a successful popular bread bakery. Grace talks to Dave about how his company works with helping formerly incarcerated people into a stable progressive enviroment at his company, and the trials and tribulations that exist on the inside as well as the out.
If the audio on this page is not working for you, check out http://kboo.fm/node/51962.
- Title: Prison Pipeline 12/10/2012 w/ Dave Dahl from Daves Killer Bread Hosted by Grace E. Reed
- Length: 29:26 minutes (13.48 MB)
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Harry Olsen & DJ Gollyhorn - Poetry & post-prison
Karen James with HARRY OLSEN, Organizing Director, Phoenix Rising Transitions & DJ GOLLYHORN. Poetry, music and post-prison experiences.
http://www.phoenix-rising-transitions.org/
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- Length: 28:28 minutes (26.07 MB)
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Juvenile Justice: Issues, Trends, and Alternative Programs for Youth Facing Incarceration
Carlos Chavez speaks to Shay Bilchik, Research Professor and Center Director at Georgetown University Public Policy Institute and head of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform out of Georgetown University.
Prior to these current positions, Shay Bilchik was an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida for sixteen years, where he served as a trial lawyer, juvenile division chief, and Chief Assistant State Attorney. He was also the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he advocated for and supported a balanced and multi-systems approach to attacking juvenile crime and addressing child victimization.
In 2007, Mr. Bilchik was the President and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America. Shay led CWLA in its advocacy on behalf of children through his public speaking, testimony and published articles, as well as collaborative work with other organizations. He worked closely with the CWLA Board of Directors, staff, and its public and private agency members on issues impacting the well being of children and families.
In 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006, he was named among The NonProfit Times Power and Influence Top 50 for making his mark in the public policy arena and championing child welfare issues.
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- Length: 28:27 minutes (26.05 MB)
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Prison Pipeline, July 30, 2012 Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner: Mental Illness & Incarceration
- Length: 28:10 minutes (25.79 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 7/16/12 w/ Shannon White hosted by Patty Katz
Patty Katz interviews Shannon White a vetren in the criminal justice system. The topic revolves around youth and the effect of the criminal justice sytem has on them.
- Length: 24:38 minutes (56.4 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 7/2/12 w Melissa Reardon hosted by Grace E Reed
Host Grace Reed interviews guest Melissa Reardon, artist, healer and activist forming project for newly released inmates using creative expression through art and mask making as a tool for transformation and restoration.
- Length: 25:49 minutes (59.09 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 6/25/12 w/ Sarah Patterson hosted by Megan Vosk
Megan Vosk interviews Sarah Patterson, Director of Lettuce Grow Foundation on the prison gardening programs
- Length: 28:25 minutes (65.04 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 6/18/12 w/
Patty Katz speaks with Gretchen Vala, Oregon Cure president-elect, about the Dept of Corrections' new phone system, and the DOC’s new director Colette Peters.
- Length: 27:57 minutes (63.96 MB)
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Prison Pipeline 6/11/12 w/ Kathleen Fullerton Hosted by Peter Peincetl
Host Peter Pincetl speaks with Kathleen Fullerton, an AmeriCorps member who works with Oregon Youth Authority and the Hope Partnership.
- Length: 26:42 minutes (61.11 MB)
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Comments
Any Advice?
Hi, I am starting to reach the end of my rope of resources, and I thought I'd try you guys and see if you have some advice or helpful programs for this sort of matter.
I have a close friend who has been on the run for a while (over 2 years). He was arrested and charged with 2 felonies, Burglary and something else similar, for going onto his own property that was supposed to be abandoned. The people who were living there didn't pay rent for over 1 year, were impossible to reach by telephone, notified the landlord twice in person that they were moving. The landlord was getting letters from the city for code violations, and abondonment, he's fairly certain one of both of their main utilities (water or electric) were shut off, mail piled up, mostly empty house, etc. He was on the property one day, removed a couple items, mostly just assessing the amount of work to be done, came back the next day, had been there for a while when the cops showed up. They asked if he had been inside the premises, he said yes, that he felt he was within his rights as landlord, cops said you thought wrong. Everyone, including public defense acted as though this was an open and shut case of guilt, so no research was done to find out if anyone was even living there to be burgled in the first place!!
We don't know what to do now. I thought I would be able to hire a lawyer eventually who could prove this whole thing to be ridiculous, but now I am finding out any lawyer would be minimum $5000, most likely much, much more! I don't understand a system that can charge someone with a bogus crime, and leave them to the wolves. It seems wrong to tell someone that if they don't have $10,000 for their own defense, then they may as well take the charge, do the time, and try to move on with their life. Is there any such thing as a lawyer who cares, and will take a case based more on values than money?
Do you guys have any programs that offer discounted criminal defense lawyers, or know how I can maybe represent him myself if I can get all the facts right, or get copies of police reports, etc.? Any advice at all would be helpful...
Thanks
Susy
Recent Topics Discussed on Prison Pipleline
Do you want to know more about the topics we’ve been discussing on Prison Pipeline?
CR10 was presented with more than 3,000 folks participating in 200 workshops. Each organization is working hard to focus on their mission.
Listed below are some organizations and contact information that we have mentioned on Prison Pipeline and a few more that are additional sources of information.
National STOPMAX Campaign Taking the Next Steps. Concerning the use of isolation and devices of torture in U.S. prisons. Search Google for:
American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) National STOPMAX Campaign. - Human Rights Coalition - Lugman Abdullah with Youth Service, Inc. - Back to Society, Inc, HRC.
Ban the Box in your Community -All of Us or None (A great 23 minute DVD -Locked Up..Locked Out - that is available for a small donation. Telephone 1-415-255-7036 - X337 to order. Linda Evans from San Francisco and Susan Burton from Los Angeles and Portland’s own Patty Katz from Partnership for Safety and Justice (start with Google) are all working on this issue. You can email: info@prisonerswithchildren.org for a lot of excellent information. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children show a page on the web “10 Things You Can Do - To Support the Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights”
Criminal Justice and Immigration Perspectives on “Alternatives” Models. - Search - Detention Watch Network, (Andrea Black spoke at this workshop) also Search - Families for Freedom, (Ravi Ragbir was the third speaker) and Judith Greene (Policy Analyst for Justice Strategies -Search - www.justicestrategies.net.
FILMS TO SEE:
The CRITICAL RESISTANCE 10th Anniversary Film Festival
Showed the following films. I’m not sure about the availability of these films, but perhaps if you Google the name of the films that interest you, there will be enough information to help you see these films.
*In Prison My Whole Life (2007) 90 min. Marc Evans
*The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (2007) - Directed by Jimmy O’Halligan, Produced by Ann Harkens and Scott Crow.
*Three Thousand Years and Life (1973) - 49 min. by Randall Conrad.
*Prison Town, USA (2006) - 75 min. Katie Galloway & Po Kutchins.
*Writ Writer (2007) - 54 min. Susanne Mason.
*Vision is Our Power (2008) 35 min - Visions to Peace Project
*Tales from the Treatment Rooms: The Luis Ramirez Story (2007) - 63 min. by Carrie von Reichardt
*Making the River (2008) - 80 min. by Two River Circle
*Women and Girls in the Sex Trade (2005) - 23 min
*Tribute to Stan Tookie Williams 1953-2005 (2008) - 66 min -Becnel and Neal
*Locked Up, Locked Out - 23 min, All of Us or None
*Up the Ridge (2008) 60 min - Nick Szuberia and Amelia Kirby
*Against Our Better Nature (2008) - 20 min by Kenya Briggs
*Sean Bell (2007) - 5 min Redhook Productions
*Redhook Raids (2008) - 15 min Redhooks Production *Finding Our Folk (2006) - 60 min. by Omo Moses
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The Secret Life of a Paroled Murderer
What I had:
25 to life sentence for first degree murder. Yes, I was guilty and wasn't one whose crime partners did it: I did.
What I served:
Almost 25 years. From 1979 to 2004. Prison I.D. C21260.
Where?
California Department of Corrections in 6 different prisons including San Quentin and Corcoran.
Hardest thing to get used to upon release?
That people thought spinning hubcaps look cool.
Personal ironic feature?
I drive an ex-police interceptor.
About how I got a parole date and released...
Did I have political connections?
None.
Did I have a rich family?
No. No family help either.
Just how did I get out?
Well, that's a long story. But I can say that when just about everyone told me to my face that I was nuts for even entertaining the idea of hope, I made myself believe it.
I figured that since lifers had given up the chase of being released maybe they would crack that door one day and look to see who was ready. Well they did crack that door and there I was, standing first in line.
My message is don't lose your place in line stupid.
Curious
My fiancé is serving a 29 to life sentence. He has served 10 years already and I keep the faith alive for both of us that he will get out one day. I am very interested in you journey and your struggles that got you to where you are now. Please help me so I can better prepare myself, prepare us for this time ahead of us. Your story really inspires me and I hope one to also be able to share the same great news.
R.D.
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