A prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary shares his experience in isolation after being tested for the virus Reprinted with permission from All Rise magazine. I sat on the top bunk of my 8-by-10 cell. As a 62-year-old man, I suffered from heart disease, an ...
29 Nov 2020 - Jimmie Cohron
The failure to provide adequate care in correctional facilities is a symptom of an overburdened system “ I ncarceration affects health. In fact, more than half of the population in prisons and jails are at high risk for COVID-19 because many have chronic ...
11 Nov 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
All Rise, a new publication based in Portland, gives current and former prisoners a voice in a marketable format Lying bare the gritty firsthand accounts and austere imagery from inside the compounds of America’s penal system, All Rise magazine is the fir ...
9 Sep 2020 - Emily Green
Already deprived of in-person visits during the pandemic, prisoners and the people they talk to on the outside now face new fees and are subject to data collection After months without personal contact with their families and lawyers, prisoners are strugg ...
25 Jun 2020 - Chris May
Checks sent to state prisons were returned to the IRS, but Prison Policy Institute says incarcerated individuals need money at this time as well Prisoners in Oregon who received stimulus checks as a result of the CARES Act will never see their payments, a ...
3 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
He doesn’t want anyone else to face the injustices that he and the rest of the Angola 3 suffered Albert Woodfox walked out of Louisiana’s St. Francisville jail in 2016 after serving more than 40 years in solitary confinement for a murder he says he didn’t ...
6 Mar 2020 - Adam Sennott
The inmates' attorney plans to file an amended complaint alleging unconstitutional use of segregation A lawsuit filed in April 2018 on behalf of two Oregon prisoners alleging unconstitutional use of solitary confinement by Oregon Department of Correc ...
28 Jun 2019 - Emily Green
California-based ABO Comix works with dozens of incarcerated artists Casper Cendre’s small apartment has stacks of letters, envelopes and artwork in every corner. On their monitor is a spreadsheet with hundreds of names, a chronological record of every le ...
24 May 2019 - Quiver Watts
Despite consistent allegations by several women who said they were abused as inmates, doubts about other accusers’ claims meant charges weren’t filed This report contains potentially triggering details of an alleged sexual assault and may not be suitable ...
5 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Everybody celebrates in a different way Enrique Bautista is an incarcerated person at Snake River Correctional Institution in Eastern Oregon. He is a periodic contributor to Street Roots. Dec. 22. It is the day after my birthday. I am now 35 years old. I ...
22 Feb 2019 - Enrique Bautista