Even nonviolent offenders accept the culture for the sake of their survival, a state prisoner explains Basim Floro is imprisoned at Oregon State Penitentiary. This article is an excerpt from a book he’s writing about his incarceration at Oregon state corr ...
12 May 2021 - Basim Floro
The pandemic resulted in a devastating pause to trauma-responsive treatment for women. The Senate has passed a bill that could prevent it from happening again. W hen Oregon prisons closed to all visitors in an attempt to keep COVID-19 out last spring, one ...
12 May 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
Today, the institution of mass incarceration subjects Lennard Ward to the same discrimination inflicted on his ancestors Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Eastern Oklahoma and a prisoner at Oregon State Correctional Institution in ...
5 May 2021 - Ga lo Vann
‘I understood what it felt like to be broken,’ recounts a prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary Just think if you had a loved one behind bars, would you want that loved one treated with respect? You would not want that person treated like an object. Peopl ...
14 Apr 2021 - Basim Floro
By learning from the source. Trauma is a virus, and we prisoners cannot change this alone. Ga lo Vann is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Eastern Oklahoma and a prisoner at Oregon State Correctional State Institution in Salem. A vaccine carrie ...
31 Mar 2021 - Ga lo Vann
Alex Doran works directly with female prisoners at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility despite serious allegations D espite facing felony charges for domestic violence, the Oregon Department of Corrections has allowed Alex Doran to keep his job as a correc ...
24 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Disability Rights Oregon report documents how criminalizing disabilities leads to deaths in jail L ast April, a 34-year-old U.S. Army veteran named Alex Jimenez was arrested in his hometown of Warrenton as he was walking down the street. When Alex didn’t ...
10 Mar 2021 - Liz Reetz
With more than 3,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus among its prisoners, the Oregon Department of Corrections has faced criticism for its handling of the pandemic Chronicled in this special report are the 42 prisoners who, as of press time, had died of CO ...
10 Mar 2021 - Chris May and Emily Green
Phillip Red Woman, a Northern Cheyenne tribal member and an Army veteran, died from COVID-19 while incarcerated Phyll Mendacino, 65 Died Jan. 26, 2021 Two Rivers Correctional Institution Release date: Sept. 2, 2023 (tentative parole) Read more profiles ...
10 Mar 2021 - Chris May
The ‘always upbeat’ father, husband and friend died from COVID-19 while incarcerated James Hargrave, 70 Died Jan. 20, 2021 Two Rivers Correctional Institution Release date: Life, no parole date set Read more profiles of Oregon state prisoners who died fro ...
10 Mar 2021 - Chris May