The organization – with a focus on equity, trauma and social-emotional learning – sees the potential of its youth to lead When Justice English walked into journalism class as a high school junior five years ago, she met a teacher who changed her life: S. ...
26 Apr 2023 - Ellen Clarke
The renowned Portland rapper combines mentorship and mental health Talilo Marfil started his musical journey making beats at the Apple store in downtown Portland when he was just 16 years old — as a houseless teenager, this became his means of survival. N ...
9 Feb 2022 - 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
Sentenced as a teen to life without parole – ‘a living death sentence’ – she tells street papers she’s ashamed of how America treats its children In 1995, 17-year-old Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of George Howa ...
21 Jun 2019 - Tony Inglis
Teens do better outside of detention, says attorney DeAnna Horne, who will participate in a panel exploring the policy's impact on youths, as well as reform efforts led by state lawmakers Oregon’s practice of automatically trying 15-, 16- and 17-year ...
31 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
The state has the nation’s second-highest rate of sending youths to adult court, according to the report by the Oregon Council on Civil Rights Oregon incarcerates youths at a higher rate than almost any other state in the U.S., according to a new report f ...
2 Feb 2018 - Emily Green
Disability Rights Oregon’s Sarah Radcliffe talks about her new report about juvenile incarceration at NORCOR Kids disciplined for leaving an orange pip on the floor, falling asleep, using a tissue as a bookmark or “being needy.” Kids locked up for more th ...
15 Dec 2017 - Thacher Schmid
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
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
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