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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
'Making a Murderer' attorneys advance dialogue about justice

Dean Strang and Jerry Buting were the defense attorneys in the documentary series “Making a Murderer.” Now, they are promoting conversations worldwide about justice. In the O2 Academy, a 2,550-capacity venue in Glasgow, Scotland, that’s used to hosting th ...

16 Nov 2016 - Laura Kelly
Prison push only aggravating women’s public health crises

COMMENTARY | Expanded incarceration disregards people’s potential, magnifies disparities When the vast majority of incarcerated women battle addiction, are victims of assault or have mental health diagnoses, criminal justice can be squarely classified as ...

22 Sep 2016 - Talia Gad
Canada OKs prescription heroin

The move reflects changing attitudes toward addicts, placing compassion over criminalization The Canadian government legalized prescription heroin this past week. The move comes four months after Health Canada proposed the regulatory change, and ahead of ...

15 Sep 2016 - Emily Green
Director’s Desk: Housing is not the only social justice issue

We have work to do to tackle many community problems, especially in the context of poverty Homelessness. Housing. Crisis. Those three words have become commonplace in our city over the past three years. It’s for good reason too. The skyrocketing rents a ...

25 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer
Opening 2nd women's prison in Oregon would reverse progress

COMMENTARY | Prosecutors, legislators have power to choose how to better spend $10M on women convicted of crime At the end of September, the Emergency Board of the Oregon State Legislature will consider a request from the Department of Corrections for nea ...

18 Aug 2016 - Shannon Wight
It’s time we fundamentally change how we view policing

COMMENTARY | How can we eliminate presumption that law enforcement involves application of superior force? A wise friend of mine once gave me advice on coping with a paralyzing sense of helplessness. Gordon said, “Find a starting point that seems right to ...

21 Jul 2016 - Andy Ko
Bill Keller is holding the system accountable

The former New York Times editor leads The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice In February 2014, Bill Keller shocked the media world when he left the New York Times after 30 years to start a national conversation a ...

9 Jun 2016 - Adam Sennott
Oregon’s price tag on a run-in with the law

What do monetary sanctions look like here? As the financial burdens placed on those who come into contact with the American criminal justice system draw increasing criticism – and the attention of the Obama administration – we wondered: What do these mone ...

7 Jun 2016 - Emily Green
Sentenced to life in debt

Sociologist Alexes Harris explains how America’s justice system comes down harder on people in poverty Alexes Harris studies how people are punished in the United States. Growing up in Seattle in the 1990s as a woman of color, she watched as those around ...

7 Jun 2016 - Emily Green