Oregon’s 36 district attorneys are some of the most powerful actors in the public safety system, and about half of them are running for reelection in the May 17 primary election. Whether or not your district attorney’s name is on your ballot, this is an ...
10 May 2022 - Shannon Wight
Katie Park, one of the journalists behind the project, talks to Street Roots about what the team has learned: ‘This really is a serious issue behind bars’ The Marshall Project has been tracking confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths within America’s state ...
10 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Hearings on a criminal justice reform bill draw testimony about mandatory minimums, parole restrictions and more Kenneth McGee ran into an old acquaintance online Feb. 25 during a public hearing on House Bill 2002 on criminal justice reform. It was former ...
10 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
Scores of COVID-19 deaths in Oregon’s prisons underscore the failures of America’s carceral system E xpendable. The word refers to something that is normally used up or consumed in service, or something that is more easily replaced than rescued, salvaged ...
10 Mar 2021 - SR editorial board
Prison abolitionist Joshua Edward Wright has launched ‘The Exiled Voice,’ featuring interviews with people who have been incarcerated in Oregon In the 19th century, slave narratives from writers like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs played a critical ...
13 Jan 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
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 Introduction: On telling Billy's story He was dying, but he w ...
27 Dec 2020 - Emily Green
An examination of the state's bail system shows that it might not be achieving its goals Alice Jackson, 55, was poised to spend Christmas inside a Multnomah County jail cell following her arrest on Nov. 24. “I was real depressed when I couldn’t come ...
25 Jan 2019 - Emily Green
A project gives former inmates an opportunity to share their re-entry experiences and the injustices they witnessed in the prison system Tyrone Rucker was 14 the first time he went to juvenile hall, before he “graduated” to prison, as he puts it. It was t ...
20 Oct 2017 - Sarah Hansell