After nearly two decades behind bars, much of it in solitary confinement, the Detroit author has turned his experience into a lesson of redemption Shaka Senghor describes his younger self as a “young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pi ...
3 Apr 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Gov. Kate Brown signed House Bill 3400 Tuesday, adding a long list of new provisions and amendments to ballot Measure 91. However, missing from this extensive, 111-page document, or any other bill that’s been signed into law to date, is a provision to re ...
6 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
Justice reinvestment programs help keep people out of prison, so why are legislators starving the funds? Carole Hinojosa didn’t expect a second chance. She grew up in a drug house in deep Southeast Portland in the 1970s, where, she says, she began her lo ...
19 Mar 2015 - Emily Green
Watch Brian Lindstrom’s recent films and it’s clear the importance the filmmaker places on compassion. “Finding Normal” is about recovering addicts who reach out to help others through recovery. “ Alien Boy ” explores issues of police accountability in th ...
6 Dec 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
The trash-master himself chats up the season before his one-man Christmas show in Portland Whatever you know about John Waters, what you might not expect is that he is one of the funniest people to have a conversation with. He is open, honest, compassiona ...
5 Dec 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Out and down: After serving time, many former inmates find that the real trial begins upon release (Art Rios, a member of the Civic Action Group at Sisters Of The Road Cafe, discusses his experiences in and out of prison.) Matt Gollyhorn remembers it well ...
10 Jun 2009 - Street Roots