Law/Court/Crime

OJRC 2023 Legislative Agenda

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Zach Winston, policy director with Oregon Justice Resource Center about their 2023 Oregon legislative agenda which includes the Right to Vote for Incarcerated Oregonians, Compassionate Medical Release and Justice for Survivor-Defendants and othe... Read more

Judge Nan Waller of the Multnomah County Circuit Court

Airs at: Tue, 01/31/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine, Prison Pipeline
  Host Karen James speaks with Judge Nan Waller of the Multnomah County Circuit Court, who serves as Judge for the Mental Health Court and also manages the Aid and Assist docket for the county court. The U.S. Constitution declares that a person cannot be held in jail witho... Read more

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Airs at: Mon, 01/30/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Walter Mosley is much more than a successful mystery writer. He will be remembered by most  readers as the creator of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, he shows that he is an astute social critic. His lead character, Socrates Fortlow, ... Read more

Aid & Assist: Perspective from the Bench

Airs at: Mon, 01/16/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Judge Nan Waller of the Multnomah County Circuit Court, who serves as Judge for the Mental Health Court and also manages the Aid and Assist docket for the county court. The U.S. Constitution declares that a person cannot be held in jail without ... Read more

Culturally Specific Programming In & Out: Supporting Native Women

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2023 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Trish Jordan with Red Lodge Transition Services.  Red Lodge is designed to prevent incarceration and reduce recidivism primarily among Native American women and men. To provide assistance for individuals released from jails, prisons and treatment ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 9, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Labor Under Siege: Laurie Mercier talks to Harvey Schwartz about his new book about the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Labor Under Siege: An Oral History of Big Bo... Read more

Death Penalty

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
On December 13, 2022, Governor Brown commuted the capital sentences of all 17 death row prisoners and instructed the department of corrections to begin dismantling the state’s execution chamber. Thirty-seven states — nearly three quarters of the country — have now abolished... Read more

Prison: The Hidden Sentence Interviews Prison Pipeline

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2023 at 6:30pm - Tue, 01/03/2023 at 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us on Monday, January 2nd at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Julia Lazarec of the Podcast "Prison the Hidden Sentence".  In this interview we turn the tables as Julia Lazareck interviews Prison Pipeline for her Podcast. Julia... Read more

Full Interview | Looking Back at 2022 with Portland Copwatch

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This is full version of the interview with Dan Handelman and Philip Chachka, both of Portland Copwatch. A partial version of this interview aired on our December 27, 2022 show. This longer version includes more discussion of the current state of Portland's police oversi... Read more

Totality of Circumstances | December 27, 2022

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  Looking Back at 2022 with Portland Copwatch This year our main focus has been on the Police Accountability Commission (which we’ll mostly refer to in this show as the PAC, or P-A-C), an all-civilian volunteer group that is tasked with creating a proposal for a new commu... Read more