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Opinion | Providing healing for survivors of gun violence is crucial

Transforming Justice | POIC’s ‘Healing Hurt People’ provides an example of a successful model to support gun violence victims When you’ve been shot, and you’re lying in a hospital bed, everything comes at you at once. Pain fires through your body. Your mi ...

20 Sep 2023 - Roy Moore and Travis Nelson
Opinion | Mass Supervision: massive problem or opportunity?

Transforming Justice | Parole and probation, once thought a solution to mass incarceration, increased drastically since the 1980s. A new movement seeks to make it more equitable. Hope, racial equity and success are some of the values we want at the core o ...

19 Jul 2023 - Babak Zolfaghar... and Shannon Wight
Opinion | Wearing my heart on my t-shirt

Transforming Justice | Harm reduction practices and implementation take time and Oregonians are walking in the right direction I have a T-shirt that I like to wear grocery shopping. Even though it is one of my favorite shirts, I usually don’t put it on un ...

30 Nov 2022 - Andy Ko
OPINION | Narrative of reduced police funds causing gun violence is misleading

TRANSFORMING JUSTICE | Reasons for increased crime vary, so solutions should too Violent crime is up in cities across the nation, including Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and now Portland — a city not usually on the high-crime map. Mothers are los ...

17 Nov 2021 - Shannon Wight
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

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