Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

Emma Lugo interviews Mindy Griffiths and Kristin Flor from the program Voices of the Cannabis War for an in-depth discussion of jury nullification. Jury nullification occurs when a jury returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" despite its belief that the defendant is guilty of ... Read more

Siobhann Tighe is a broadcast journalist from the United Kingdom based in London. She works for the BBC and was recently the head of National Prison Radio(http://www.prisonradioassociation.org/national-prison-radio/), a radio station created for prisoners by prisoners. N... Read more

Karen James interviews Shannon Wight, Deputy Director, Partnership for Safety and Justice. In 2013 Oregon legislators passed House Bill 3194 that stopped prison growth for 5 years. A Justice Reinvestment fund was created from the savings and distributed to Oregon countie... Read more

Emma Lugo interviews Mindi Griffiths from the program Voices of the Cannabis War. In spite of the recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon and three other states, and the legalization of medical marijuana in almost half of the country, hundreds of people a... Read more

Adam Carpinelli interviews Masai Ehehosi, former Black Liberation Army Prisoner of War. Ehehosi is co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national prison abolitionist organization. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Jericho Amnesty Movement for the liberation o... Read more

Karen James interviews CNN contributor and author Van Jones. Cut 50, an organization he co-founded, plans to cut U.S. mass incarceration by 50% in ten years. In July, President Obama visited a federal prison and there’s bipartisan Congressional support for legislation to... Read more

Ruth Kovacs interviews Erik Rise, Iron Tribe case manager. As a formerly incarcerated person, he tells of his prison experience and finding employment with Iron Tribe upon release. Iron Tribe is a non-profit recovery network of formerly incarcerated men and women who pro... Read more

With You on the Journey is a performance of monologues written by family members of people in prison. The performance was the culmination of six writing workshops which took place in the summer and was held at The First Unitarian Church of Portland on October 18th, 2015.... Read more

On 9/19 criminal defense attorney Jesse William Barton presented “Maximizing the Chances of Obtaining True Measure 11 Reform” in Wilsonville. During an interview with Karen James, he discusses Measure 11, Oregon’s one-strike-you’re-out mandatory minimum sentencing law pa... Read more

Emma Lugo and special guest Kris Hermes, mass defense coordinator for the National Lawyer's Guild and author of Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000. Crashing the Party explains how events at the Republican National Convention led Philadelphia Polic... Read more