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The prosecutor: the most powerful person in the room

As Multnomah County grapples with widespread inequities in its criminal justice system, heads turn toward the D.A. Prosecutors wield a tremendous amount of power in the courtroom, and in an effort to keep it that way, they systematically block attempts to ...

21 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
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
Oregon Innocence Project’s Aliza Kaplan: Criminal injustice ‘every single day’

With wrongful-conviction cases getting greater attention, now the focus should be reform, organization’s co-founder says Aliza Kaplan tells her students at Lewis & Clark Law School, “You have to be really open because you never know when the moment or ...

29 Jan 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
ACLU’s David Rogers: Communities divided by politics of fear

The new ACLU of Oregon director also sounds the alarm on pending ballot measures, digital privacy, criminal justice As a child, watching the “CBS Evening News” was routine for David Rogers. Each night, his family gathered around a television set in their ...

21 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
What Oregon’s new criminal justice reforms mean for you

‘Ban the box,’ criminal record expungement and other laws take effect Jan. 1, 2016 Several significant changes to Oregon’s criminal justice system were signed into law during the 2015 legislative session and become effective Jan. 1. A ban on police profil ...

31 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Unified message for Oregon: Reinvest in justice

Diverse interests come together to support the state’s promising program for criminal justice reform On May 14, Oregon’s Office of Economic Analysis released its March 2015 quarterly review of the state’s economic health. (You can read the entire report, ...

25 May 2015 - Shannon Wight
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
Partnership for Safety and Justice: Pulling the arc toward justice

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” President Obama added, “But it does not do so on its own. It does so because there are hands of ordinary people doing extraordinary things every single ...

31 Dec 2014 - PSJ Staff Members
Warrant Day? Perhaps the avalanche of reality the system needs

Everyone with a warrant or who thinks they might have a warrant should turn themselves in on Jan. 1. What would happen if everybody with a warrant turned themselves in on the same day? In one jurisdiction, if only 25, 50 or 100 people were willing to do ...

29 Sep 2014 - Chris O'Connor
Health reform long overdue for people leaving prison

More than 4,000 people leave Oregon state prisons each year, and many more are released from county jails. This population suffers from disproportionately high rates of untreated infectious and chronic disease, mental health disorders and substance abuse ...

28 Jan 2014 - Gina Anzaldúa