Prison Related

Colette Peters Chosen to Lead State Prisons

February 1, 2012
Colette Peters, director of the Oregon Youth Authority, has been chosen by Gov. John Kitzhaber to run the Oregon Department of Corrections. As corrections chief, Peters will run a fast-growing system that now houses 14,000 inmates in 13 prisons (Statesman Journal).

By  ALAN GUSTAFSON

Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America

January 17, 2012
On NPR's "Fresh Air," Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," details how President Reagan's war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences.

 

Class In Prison

December 8, 2011
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program brings 15 students to a maximum-security prison to take a class with the same number of incarcerated students. Together, they try to gain a common respect for each other -- leading to some sobering moments (Oregon Public Broadcasting).

 

Class In Prison

By SARAH JANE ROTHENFLUCH

A Country of Inmates

November 29, 2011
Although the United States indisputably leads in the world in incarceration, with almost one in every 100 Americans behind bars, the issue hasn't been on the agenda of the impending national election (The New York Times).

Max Williams leaving Oregon Corrections Department

November 16, 2011
Max Williams will resign as director of the state prison system at the end of the year to become president of the Oregon Community Foundation, the state’s largest foundation.

Drug War / 2011 Legislative Session Wrap-Up

September 12, 2011
In this issue we report on the 2011 Legislative Session & the changing political landscape around public safety & criminal justice issues in OR. There's an overview of our Measure 11 and youth report, an exploration of the failed war on drugs and a story on collaborating to create safety.

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In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights

May 16, 2011
Michelle Alexander talks about how current budget deficits are motivating the political shifts that thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to do: implementing reforms to stem out-of-control prison growth, the result of the failed war on drugs. (NY Times)

In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights

By Michelle Alexander, NY Times

'Exile Nation' Documentary to Premiere - Exposing the Drug War as a Trillion Dollar Social Catastrophe

April 6, 2011
"The Exile Nation Project" has announced its premiere screenings. This is a documentary archive of interviews and testimonies from criminal offenders, family members, and experts revealing the far-ranging consequences of the War on Drugs and the American Criminal Justice System.

Announcing the premiere screenings of The Exile Nation Project, a documentary archive of interviews and testimonies from criminal offenders, family members, an

Last inmate leaves Oregon minimum security prison shuttered by budget cuts

November 4, 2010
And as the gate clanged shut behind the last inmate, corrections officers turned to a chore never undertaken in Oregon -- moth balling a prison. (The Oregonian)

Last inmate leaves Oregon minimum security prison shuttered by budget cuts

Seeing Measure 73 for What It is

September 9, 2010
David Rogers explores the raw and ugly politics of Measure 73, yet another Kevin Mannix mandatory minimum sentencing ballot measure, this one combining two completely different issues in an thinly-disguised effort to garner a political win with its emotionally provocative ballot title.

Article by David Rogers

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