Prison reform advocates see an opportunity to rethink who needs to be incarcerated Approximately 3,500 people have been released from California prisons in response to the coronavirus pandemic. If COVID-19 poses a greater threat to public safety than the ...
27 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
The congresswoman's People’s Justice Guarantee calls for decriminalizing poverty and homelessness Ayanna Pressley remembers running for reelection to the Boston City Council in 2011 when a constituent asked her what she was going to do about the home ...
29 Nov 2019 - Adam Sennott
A compassionate approach to first response is popular, and we need that compassion to spill over to more areas The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend i ...
22 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
The author of ‘The End of Policing’ says the job has become too broad: Police shouldn’t have to deal with social issues such as racism, homelessness and mental health crises Police brutality and oppression aren’t a new concept in the world of social justi ...
18 Oct 2019 - Casey Miller
With its rampant conflicts of interest, the immigration court system is not consistent with American democracy, says Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of the judges’ union Americans have been inundated with images and stories of migrant children separated ...
6 Sep 2019 - Helen Hill
While Clackamas County Community Court rolls out a new program, Multnomah County’s counterpart goes through the motions Kalea Fischer of Sandy went to Clackamas County Community Court a week ahead of her scheduled appearance to ask the judge for an extens ...
2 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
The Portland college student, who served time for dealing drugs that resulted in a death, uses her story of addiction and rehabilitation to promote 'compassion, not vengeance' When her mother died of a prescription-drug overdose, 24-year-old Mor ...
19 Jul 2019 - Victoria Lewis
Every year, millions of low-level offenders are swept up into the criminal justice system People need to start paying attention to how low-level criminal cases are handled in the United States, acclaimed legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff says. Her new book ...
22 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
An examination of the state's bail system shows that it might not be achieving its goals Alice Jackson, 55, was poised to spend Christmas inside a Multnomah County jail cell following her arrest on Nov. 24. “I was real depressed when I couldn’t come ...
25 Jan 2019 - Emily Green
Oregon’s monetary sanctions punish the poor more harshly and tether them to the criminal justice system for years after their initial ticket or fee This article is the first installment of a Street Roots investigation into the impact of criminal and traf ...
9 Nov 2018 - Emily Green