Host Amy Johnson speaks with Alice Lundell and Julia Yoshimoto of the Oregon Justice Resource Center about their report "An Alternative to Women's Prison Expansion in Oregon". This report offers six concrete proposals that if implemented could reduce the number of women in Coffee Creek Correctional Facility(CCCF) and reduce how many women are sent to CCCF as well as the duration of their incarceration using current legislation. CCCF has been consistently over the built capacity as well as the threshold established for when to open a second women's prison for months. CCCF is the only women's prison in Oregon but the Department of Corrections is likely to seek funds to open a second facility for women in December of this year if the population at CCCF does not fall below the threshold by that time - it is about 30 women over. The Oregon Justice Resource Center sees this as a critical moment to act and their report also includes who has the power to enact this six proposals. This is part two of Prison Pipeline's Women in Prison two part series
Read and download this report at:
http://ojrc.info/women-in-prison-project/
Part one:
http://kboo.fm/media/53316-women-prison-part-one
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