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Mass Imprisonment is Prison Slavery

Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2014 at 12:00am
https://lawandisorder.wordpress.com/ Mass Imprisonment is Prison Slavery JoNina Abron-Ervin & Lorenzo Ervin Recorded and produced by Paul Roland, Public Affairs volunteer producer Summary More people are incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails than in any other country in the... Read more

"Prison Imperialism: How the US is Spreading a Repressive Incarceration Model Around the World"

Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2014 at 12:00am
Presentation at the Law and Disorder Conference at Portland State University, May 11, 2014 by James Patrick Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice (http://www.afgj.org) (Recorded and produced by Paul Roland) http://www.lawanddisorder.wordpress.com Alliance for Global Justice He... Read more

5/13 - Dismantling the prison-industrial complex

May 13 - 9AM - 4PM Dismantling the prison-industrial complex special   On the 29th anniversary of the bombing of the MOVE family home in Philadelphia, we'll have an exclusive interview with a member of the MOVE family.  The day will include talks by the organizers of the ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 28 April 2014

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker hosts this episode on Politics, Poetry, and Prisons. Bill Resnick interviews Mike Parker of the Richmond Progressive Alliance about Chevron and city government. Joe Clement talks with Tamara Lynne and Daisy Montague of Living Stages about their upcoming working-c... Read more

Increasing Incarceration of Women and Girls in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Iven Hale and Frann Michel report on a Partnership for Safety and Justice panel discussion about the increasing incarceration of women and girls in Oregon. Panelists included Piper Kerman of Orange is the New Black fame; Fariborz Pakseresht, Director of the Oregon Youth Au... Read more

the Left & the Law: the Innocence Project

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Mike Snediker discuss the Innocence Project which seeks to free those wrongfully convicted of crimes. They discuss the development of DNA technology that made it possible to discover the large numbers of wrongful convictions, and the reasons for those many m... Read more

KBOO Interviews Hamas' lawyer Stanley Cohen

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Stanley Cohen is a NY based civil rights lawyer, currently facing 18 months in jail for 'obstructing the IRS'. More info available on Stanley Cohen's website Read more

New Court Cases Target Guantanamo Force-Feeding

Airs at: Thu, 03/27/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Sam Bouman spoke with Alka Pradhan, Counter-Terrorism Counsel with Reprieve US, who is representing Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Rabbani in the Washington DC Court of Appeals, in one of the first court cases related to conditions of detention at the controversial mi... Read more

Inside the Oregon State Hospital: a history of tragedy and triumph

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Oregon author and historian, Diane Goeres-Gardner about her new book "Inside the Oregon State Hospital: a history of tragedy and triumph". They delve into the ideas and motivations behind the book, some of the cases of hospitalized people she looks at,... Read more

Robert King Interview

Airs at: Fri, 01/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Robert King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been made famous by their treatment at the infamous Angola State Prison in Angola, Louisiana.  Named for a former slave plantation, the prison, according to Mr. King; the only member of the Angola Three both alive and free... Read more