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
A collection of essays bolsters Rogers’ reflective framework exploring Oregon's history of capital punishment Sept. 6, 1996, was one of those days that make tourists want to stay in Oregon forever. The air was warm as birth, the cerulean sky cloudles ...
8 Jun 2022 - Ellen Rogers
The historical impact of sexual violence in Native communities explains why some are not welcome in our spiritual spaces Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence. T he prisoner hierarchy is simple, good dudes at the ...
18 May 2022 - Ga lo Vann
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
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
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
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
Today, the institution of mass incarceration subjects Lennard Ward to the same discrimination inflicted on his ancestors Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Eastern Oklahoma and a prisoner at Oregon State Correctional Institution in ...
5 May 2021 - Ga lo Vann
‘I understood what it felt like to be broken,’ recounts a prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary Just think if you had a loved one behind bars, would you want that loved one treated with respect? You would not want that person treated like an object. Peopl ...
14 Apr 2021 - Basim Floro
By learning from the source. Trauma is a virus, and we prisoners cannot change this alone. Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Eastern Oklahoma and a prisoner at Oregon State Correctional State Institution in Salem. A vaccine carrie ...
31 Mar 2021 - Ga lo Vann