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Mugshots and fingerprints of Billy Baggett Jr.

 

 

Special Report

The life and death of Billy Baggett

After spending most of his life in prison, Billy Baggett was released into a world he no longer understood, contending with a lifetime of trauma and coming to terms with his imminent death. Read online or download the PDF e-book.

 

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    Sign from of the Oregon Employment Department

    Employment department settles lawsuit after ending PUA for thousands of people

    The legal action resulted in a settlement reached with the Employment Department in June giving people more time and clarity on how they can keep their benefits
    By
    Jake Thomas
    July 21, 2021
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    Jean-Jacques Michell with his dog

    A look inside the anarchist city on Portland’s Kelly Butte

    PDX Houseless Radicals Collective has made the isolated park home base in its fight to address houseless issues
    By
    Henry Brannan
    July 14, 2021
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    Walled In podcast logo: A co-production of Street Roots and The Exiled Voice

    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
    By
    Emily Green Joshua Wright
    July 10, 2021
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    A watercolor illustration depicts an Indigenous person removing a protective face mask to reveal nothing, just a blank space where her mouth should be.

    COVID-19’s toll on Oregon’s tribal elders imperils preservation of Native languages

    They taught more than grammar and vocabulary; they taught the cultural meaning behind the words. And now, they’re gone.
    By
    Brian Oaster
    July 7, 2021
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    Illustration of two hands reaching for each other, but not touching, with prison bars in the background

    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
    By
    Emily Green
    July 7, 2021
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    People wear masks while browsing books at the library

    Multnomah County Library enters a new era — one that is tech-friendly

    With five branches newly reopened, the library system focuses on disparities in access and literacy highlighted by COVID-19
    By
    Sarah Hansell
    June 30, 2021
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    Books lined up vertically on a shelf include "Mediocre," "My Gradmother's Hands" and "This Book is Anti-Racist"

    Summer Reads 2021: Advocacy leaders’ book picks

    Leaders from Portland nonprofits share their recommendations for summer reading about social and environmental justice
    June 23, 2021
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    Olivia reads

    Summer Reads 2021: Kids’ book picks

    Middle-grade fiction about racial justice dominates their recommendations for summer reading
    June 23, 2021
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    Michelle Lewis stacks books at Third Eye Books

    Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks

    Staff, correspondents and volunteers share recommendations for books with a social or environmental justice bent
    June 23, 2021
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    Keith Mosman on the left; Powell's Books on the right

    Summer Reads 2021: Picks from your local book purveyor

    Keith Mosman of Powell’s Books in Portland shares his summer reading recommendations
    June 23, 2021

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