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  1. High number of deaths in Oregon state prisons

    Oregon Department of Corrections prisoner deaths approaching annual record The Oregon Department of Corrections has recorded an average of nearly one prisoner death per week since mid-September. One person died just one month after being admitted into Ore ...

    1 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen

  2. Portland nonprofit helps expunge juvenile records

    Youth, Rights & Justice’s new expunction clinic will assist eligible people in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties seal juvenile charges that often bar them from housing and job opportunities Thousands of Oregon children are referred to juven ...

    6 Oct 2021 - Taylor Griggs

  3. Salem man held in jail 'on the idea of future crimes he might commit'

    Salem man held in jail despite no criminal charges is clear violation of civil rights, attorneys say A 27-year-old Salem man with a developmental disability and mental illness has been held in the Marion County Jail for more than two months with no crimin ...

    18 Aug 2021 - Henry Brannan

  4. Despite court orders, 16 held in jail rather than Oregon State Hospital

    Advocates say jail is dangerous for people with mental illness, but the state psychiatric hospital cites red tape and a limited number of beds Despite court orders, 16 people found guilty except for insanity in Oregon are being held in jail rather than tr ...

    21 Jul 2021 - Henry Brannan

  5. Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’

    Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation Walled In  is a podcast co-produced by Street Roots and  The Exiled ...

    10 Jul 2021 - Emily Green and Joshua Wright

  6. Opinion | The boy who loved the father in his dream

    Ga lo Vann shares the story of the first hanbleceya and with it reveals the curse of modern-day America and how it has played out in the life of a man sent to prison for killing his sexual abusers as a boy Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee ...

    7 Jul 2021 - Ga lo Vann

  7. The science behind human touch — and what happens when prisoners go without

    Deprivation of positive physical contact can result in depression and aggressive behavior, explains the founder of the Touch Research Institute As people worldwide isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic, many got a taste of how going without human touch fo ...

    7 Jul 2021 - Emily Green

  8. Black former prisoners get support with reentry as they speak up for policy change

    Flip the Script, a culturally specific program in Portland, puts formerly incarcerated Oregonians in front of state lawmakers W hen Patrick Alexander was released from prison, eager to course-correct his life, he had one question for his parole officer: “ ...

    2 Jun 2021 - Brian Oaster

  9. Opinion | In Oregon, prisoners learn violence, not rehabilitation

    Even nonviolent offenders accept the culture for the sake of their survival, a state prisoner explains Basim Floro is imprisoned at Oregon State Penitentiary. This article is an excerpt from a book he’s writing about his incarceration at Oregon state corr ...

    12 May 2021 - Basim Floro

  10. Cancellation of popular program for Oregon prisoners prompts action in the Legislature

    The pandemic resulted in a devastating pause to trauma-responsive treatment for women. The Senate has passed a bill that could prevent it from happening again. W hen Oregon prisons closed to all visitors in an attempt to keep COVID-19 out last spring, one ...

    12 May 2021 - Hanna Merzbach

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