Enrique Bautista describes the highs and lows of celebrating Christmas while incarcerated Christmas was my favorite holiday growing up. It was natural for me, as a little kid who still believed in Santa Claus, to feel “the Christmas spirit.” The merriment ...
8 Dec 2021 - Enrique Bautista
Oregon Department of Corrections prisoner deaths approaching annual record The Oregon Department of Corrections has recorded an average of nearly one prisoner death per week since mid-September. One person died just one month after being admitted into Ore ...
1 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen
Youth, Rights & Justice’s new expunction clinic will assist eligible people in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties seal juvenile charges that often bar them from housing and job opportunities Thousands of Oregon children are referred to juven ...
6 Oct 2021 - Taylor Griggs
Salem man held in jail despite no criminal charges is clear violation of civil rights, attorneys say A 27-year-old Salem man with a developmental disability and mental illness has been held in the Marion County Jail for more than two months with no crimin ...
18 Aug 2021 - Henry Brannan
Advocates say jail is dangerous for people with mental illness, but the state psychiatric hospital cites red tape and a limited number of beds Despite court orders, 16 people found guilty except for insanity in Oregon are being held in jail rather than tr ...
21 Jul 2021 - Henry Brannan
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 Walled In is a podcast co-produced by Street Roots and The Exiled ...
10 Jul 2021 - Emily Green and Joshua Wright
Ga lo Vann shares the story of the first hanbleceya and with it reveals the curse of modern-day America and how it has played out in the life of a man sent to prison for killing his sexual abusers as a boy Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee ...
7 Jul 2021 - Ga lo Vann
Deprivation of positive physical contact can result in depression and aggressive behavior, explains the founder of the Touch Research Institute As people worldwide isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic, many got a taste of how going without human touch fo ...
7 Jul 2021 - Emily Green
Flip the Script, a culturally specific program in Portland, puts formerly incarcerated Oregonians in front of state lawmakers W hen Patrick Alexander was released from prison, eager to course-correct his life, he had one question for his parole officer: “ ...
2 Jun 2021 - B. Toastie
Even nonviolent offenders accept the culture for the sake of their survival, a state prisoner explains Basim Floro is imprisoned at Oregon State Penitentiary. This article is an excerpt from a book he’s writing about his incarceration at Oregon state corr ...
12 May 2021 - Basim Floro