Part 1: An average of 49 prisoners died each year in the state’s prisons since 2020, a 45% increase over the 33.8 annual deaths reported in the previous 20 years, despite a decreasing prison population This is part 1 of a series examining what's driv ...
29 May 2024 - K. Rambo
Announced before holiday weekend, emergency ordinance skirts transparency, authorizes PPB to bolster shields and munitions inventory The day before Memorial Day weekend began, Portland City Council abruptly scheduled a May 29 vote to authorize Portland Po ...
27 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden and K. Rambo
The request for the court to set aside the lawsuit ruling was due in part because its owner and attorney forgot about the case The city of Portland’s primary private contractor for sweeps quietly lost a wrongful death lawsuit in January 2022, court record ...
22 May 2024 - Terah Bennett and K. Rambo
Portland City Council passes amended law seeking to jail and fine homeless Portlanders after court injunction halted 2023 version Mayor Ted Wheeler and the city of Portland are again pursuing fining and jailing homeless Portlanders for behavior resulting ...
15 May 2024 - K. Rambo
Street Roots asked candidates running in Districts 1-4 their plans to address housing and homelessness Street Roots sent candidates in the May 21 Oregon Primary the same three questions about homelessness and housing in the state. Street Roots sent the qu ...
1 May 2024 - K. Rambo and Tom Henderson
The low-barrier seasonal shelter opens as the coldest winter months hit As the most bitter winter months hit Portland, local nonprofit All Good Northwest opened a seasonal overnight shelter in North Portland at the Portsmouth Union Church with funding fro ...
17 Jan 2024 - K. Rambo
Multnomah County’s 2022 Domicile Unknown report finds 315 homeless residents died amid surge in overdoses, homicides, self-harm deaths and traffic fatalities Editor’s note: This story discusses drug overdoses, self-harm and violence. A record of at least ...
20 Dec 2023 - K. Rambo
Donating to Street Roots through Dec. 5 means your dollar goes twice as far Good journalism is often expensive and difficult to fund. NewsMatch, a collaborative fundraising program for Institute for Nonprofit News members like Street Roots, seeks to bridg ...
29 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt told Mayor Ted Wheeler the district attorney’s office is not able to fulfill its role as described in the ordinance banning most sleeping in public in a Nov. 6 letter. The Multnomah County District Attorney’ ...
9 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo and Jeremiah Hayden
Homeless Portlanders, service providers prepare for Nov. 13 sleeping ban enforcement while the mayor's office goes quiet Less than two weeks before the city is set to enforce its wide-reaching public sleeping ban Nov. 13 — days after nighttime temper ...
8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo