Part 1: An average of 49 prisoners died each year in the state’s prisons since 2020, a 45% increase over the 33.8 annual deaths reported in the previous 20 years, despite a decreasing prison population This is part 1 of a series examining what's driv ...
29 May 2024 - K. Rambo
The city paid for 218 bodily injury and property damage claims against police since 2020 The city of Portland spent almost $6.75 million resolving claims against the Portland Police Bureau since 2020, including over $3 million settling wrongful death clai ...
28 Jun 2023 - Piper McDaniel
The organization – with a focus on equity, trauma and social-emotional learning – sees the potential of its youth to lead When Justice English walked into journalism class as a high school junior five years ago, she met a teacher who changed her life: S. ...
26 Apr 2023 - Ellen Clarke
State agencies can’t agree on who’s responsible. Experts say this is a transparency problem. Federal laws require state prisons to track all in-custody deaths, but a Street Roots investigation shows these reports are often incomplete in Oregon. Street Roo ...
28 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Ascending Flow uses music and mentorship to support youth aging out of Oregon’s foster care system Outside a building bathed in colorful graffiti along Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood, several young men sporting tattoos, high t ...
7 Dec 2022 - Libby Dowsett
The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes city of Portland’s camps for people who are homeless, as described in five resolutions passed by four of five City Council members The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes the city of Portland’s c ...
16 Nov 2022 - Mental Health A...
Brown Hope aims to support Black communities through basic income programs The local nonprofit that distributed millions of dollars to Black Portlanders throughout the pandemic is launching a new program to further support Black Portlanders — three years ...
24 Aug 2022 - Mia Ryder-Marks
A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of ...
6 Jul 2022 - Jason Renaud
Landford was already distributing resources in her community, but now she hopes to expand her reach with a hub where people can go to receive vital resources In 2018, LaQuida Landford returned from a trip to her father’s home country, Belize, with a clear ...
26 Jan 2022 - Latisha Jensen
Drug overdoses and medical conditions contributed to the largest number of deaths among the 126 people who died while homeless in Multnomah County in 2020, highlighting need for services, permanent housing. The last time Hope Yamasaki saw her son was at t ...
15 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen