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Author Shaka Senghor 'writes his wrongs,' offers inspiration to inmates

After nearly two decades behind bars, much of it in solitary confinement, the Detroit author has turned his experience into a lesson of redemption Shaka Senghor describes his younger self as a “young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pi ...

3 Apr 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Past pot convictions get little relief under new statute

Gov. Kate Brown signed House Bill 3400 Tuesday, adding a long list of new provisions and amendments to ballot Measure 91. However, missing from this extensive, 111-page document, or any other bill that’s been signed into law to date, is a provision to re ...

6 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
Stronger families make safer communities

Oregon looks to model Washington's Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison Oregon has recently committed to an exciting new path to improve its public safety syste ...

27 Mar 2015 - Shannon Wight and Elizabeth Hilliard
Human investment: the politics of trying to keep people out of prison

Justice reinvestment programs help keep people out of prison, so why are legislators starving the funds? Carole Hinojosa didn’t expect a second chance. She grew up in a drug house in deep Southeast Portland in the 1970s, where, she says, she began her lo ...

19 Mar 2015 - Emily Green
Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom goes behind bars

Watch Brian Lindstrom’s recent films and it’s clear the importance the filmmaker places on compassion. “Finding Normal” is about recovering addicts who reach out to help others through recovery. “ Alien Boy ” explores issues of police accountability in th ...

6 Dec 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
John Waters for the holidays!

The trash-master himself chats up the season before his one-man Christmas show in Portland Whatever you know about John Waters, what you might not expect is that he is one of the funniest people to have a conversation with. He is open, honest, compassiona ...

5 Dec 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Better solutions are on the front end, not the back

When discussing re-entry barriers with a formerly incarcerated person a few years ago, I was struck by the need for Oregon to grapple with a rhetorical question the young man was posing. “When will we actually put corrections in the Department of Correcti ...

8 Oct 2013 - David Rogers
Out and down: After serving time, many former inmates find that the real trial begins upon release

Out and down: After serving time, many former inmates find that the real trial begins upon release (Art Rios, a member of the Civic Action Group at Sisters Of The Road Cafe, discusses his experiences in and out of prison.) Matt Gollyhorn remembers it well ...

10 Jun 2009 - Street Roots