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Opinion | To change the criminal justice system, we need to change policymaking

House Bill 2002 was a thoroughly crafted and heavily negotiated bill. It should have passed, yet the BIPOC-community-led effort fell short by the smallest margin because of a Senate leadership failure to back it. No unnecessary police stops. Giving someon ...

28 Jul 2021 - Talia Gad
Housing as a public safety concern: Yes on the housing bond

COMMENTARY | If we want to reduce our reliance on prisons and jails, we have to reduce homelessness When asked how I grew so committed to public safety reform, I talk about my experience working with homeless people. As a community health educator in she ...

19 Oct 2018 - Talia Gad
No on 105: Protect against racial profiling; stand by crime survivors

COMMENTARY | Voters face a choice: maintain Oregon's sanctuary status or further deepen racial disparities in our criminal justice system Often when we think about the disparities in our criminal justice system, we think about people who are arrested ...

12 Oct 2018 - Shannon Wight
Victims want prevention and treatment, not more incarceration

COMMENTARY | Oregon legislators are considering a bill that reflects these preferences Crime survivors have a seat at the public safety table, but to ensure that criminal justice policy solutions reflect victims’ needs, advocates should always seek more w ...

19 May 2017 - Talia Gad
Victims, survivors can teach us justice, in all its diversity

COMMENTARY | For too long, the voices of victims and survivors have been overlooked by the criminal justice system A few years ago, I worked with kids from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. I was invited to a summer training to lead activities designed ...

27 Apr 2017 - Amy Davidson
Hope Partnership unlocks a future for incarcerated youths

COMMENTARY | A conversation with Kathleen Fullerton, who's been with the program from its inception One was about betrayal. One about suicide. And another about the perils of life as a bee. The scripts-in-progress were being workshopped by a class of ...

16 Mar 2017 - Talia Gad
One bad act doesn’t define someone – not even voting for Trump

COMMENTARY | Andy Ko, director of Partnership for Safety and Justice, aims to apply a philosophy of his work to the presidential election “People are more than the worst thing they have done or the worst thing that has been done to them.” We say that qui ...

16 Feb 2017 - Andy Ko
Stick to harmful, regressive prison policy? Or embrace hope?

COMMENTARY | Instead of 2nd women's prison, Oregon can invest in other efforts to strengthen families, communities The 2017 presidential election and the uncertainty it’s caused make it imperative that we work in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, ...

19 Jan 2017 - Shannon Wight
The fight intensifies for liberties, dignity of those in justice system

COMMENTARY | Trump's AG pick threatens progress in shrinking prison populations As I write this column, it’s been less than 48 hours since Donald Trump announced Sen. Jeff Sessions as his choice for attorney general. My chest tightens and tears fill ...

1 Dec 2016 - Shannon Wight
End the disastrous drug war and focus on healing

COMMENTARY | We're ready for a new vision for public safety and justice The war on drugs is over! How many times over the past 25 years have I wished I could say that, just to know how it would feel to have one of America’s most tragic experiments wi ...

3 Nov 2016 - Andy Ko