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New CenturyLink contract adds communication barriers for Oregon prisoners

Already deprived of in-person visits during the pandemic, prisoners and the people they talk to on the outside now face new fees and are subject to data collection After months without personal contact with their families and lawyers, prisoners are strugg ...

25 Jun 2020 - Chris May
After decades in solitary confinement, Albert Woodfox fights for a better humanity

He doesn’t want anyone else to face the injustices that he and the rest of the Angola 3 suffered Albert Woodfox walked out of Louisiana’s St. Francisville jail in 2016 after serving more than 40 years in solitary confinement for a murder he says he didn’t ...

6 Mar 2020 - Adam Sennott
Solitary confinement suit against Oregon DOC dismissed in federal court

The inmates' attorney plans to file an amended complaint alleging unconstitutional use of segregation A lawsuit filed in April 2018 on behalf of two Oregon prisoners alleging unconstitutional use of solitary confinement by Oregon Department of Correc ...

28 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
Unlocking the rainbow: Small press amplifies voices of LGBTQ+ prisoners

California-based ABO Comix works with dozens of incarcerated artists Casper Cendre’s small apartment has stacks of letters, envelopes and artwork in every corner. On their monitor is a spreadsheet with hundreds of names, a chronological record of every le ...

24 May 2019 - Quiver Watts
More sexual-assault reports at Coffee Creek prison raise questions

Despite consistent allegations by several women who said they were abused as inmates, doubts about other accusers’ claims meant charges weren’t filed This report contains potentially triggering details of an alleged sexual assault and may not be suitable ...

5 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Birthdays behind bars: An essay by an inmate

Everybody celebrates in a different way Enrique Bautista is an incarcerated person at Snake River Correctional Institution in Eastern Oregon. He is a periodic contributor to Street Roots. Dec. 22. It is the day after my birthday. I am now 35 years old. I ...

22 Feb 2019 - Enrique Bautista
Should Oregon rethink its cash bail system?

An examination of the state's bail system shows that it might not be achieving its goals Alice Jackson, 55, was poised to spend Christmas inside a Multnomah County jail cell following her arrest on Nov. 24. “I was real depressed when I couldn’t come ...

25 Jan 2019 - Emily Green
Oregon disability advocates call for ban on using K-9s on inmates

The practice of using police dogs to intimidate inmates is dangerous and unnecessary, Disability Rights Oregon says Oregon’s leading civil rights group for people with disabilities is calling for an end to using dogs in jails to forcibly control inmates. ...

13 Nov 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
Undercover in a private prison: The shameful legacy of prison labor

Journalist Shane Bauer has written a book about his four months inside as a security guard There are few pretenses under which it’s considered ethical for a journalist to go undercover. Shane Bauer used Poynter’s criteria as a basis for weighing his deci ...

21 Sep 2018 - Emily Green
Subversive Americana: a conversation with iconic photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon

He'll be at Hollywood Theatre July 18 for a screening of his groundbreaking films ‘Willie’ and ‘Murderers’ After five years of correspondence, local artist Vanessa Renwick has convinced her favorite photographer to come to Portland and screen two of ...

13 Jul 2018 - Emily Green