Latest Content for Prison Pipeline

What does criminalization look like in Oregon when our youth are targeted and how does that play out when those youth face mandatory minimum sentencing? How does it feel returning to your home community after serving a long sentence with a felony now on your record? Host... Read more

A new group, Time Does Not Fit the Crime, has brought new energy to the fight to reform Measure 11, Oregon’s mandatory minimum sentencing law. Hear organizers Patty Youngblood and Barb Dickerson as they discuss reasons to reform Measure 11 at an event held September 19, ... Read more

Host Adam Carpinelli interviews Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children based in the Bay Area. Nunn will speak about organizing for the Oakland conference held September 20-21, 2015. The conference will bring together formerly incarc... Read more

Lynne Stewart is an activist, defense lawyer, breast cancer survivor and former political prisoner who has courageously stood up for the rights of revolutionaries, people of color, the poor, marginalized and dispossessed for over 40 years. Join us on Prison Pipeline on M... Read more

Ruth Kovacs talks with Angela Cave who grew up with a parent in prison. She shares her personal experience and how her father’s imprisonment affected her own life. Read more

Karen James and Gretchen Vala, OregonCure, discuss the Obama administration’s recent announcement for a new federal grant program to pay for college for state and federal prisoners. Congress banned prisoners from being eligible for Pell grants in 1994. Nationwide 43.3% o... Read more

Adam Carpinelli will interview Peter Clark, co-director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Leonard Peltier is a long term u.s.-held Indigenous Political Prisoner. Peltier has been locked away for 38 years in federal prison, wrongly convicted for the ... Read more

On July 9th, 2015 as part of a national week of action to #EndDetention the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition organized a rally which called for: the end the collaboration between Portland police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an end to deportations so ... Read more

Emma Lugo discusses street harassment of homeless people by the Portland police. Her guest talks about homelessness, arrests by the police and about his time in the jail. We’ll hear audio of his arrest. Read more

Ruth Kovacs interviews Debbi Parkins whose brother, Steve, released from prison two years ago this month.  Steve served 8 years convicted as a sex offender.  Read more