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Prison Pipeline
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KBOO Radio is a community-powered station in Portland Oregon
Episodes
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Interview with Dean Lombard of the Phosphenes
This Monday evening on Prison Pipeline, we’ll be speaking with Australian musician and activist Dean Lombard, a member of the Melbourne-based band The Phosphenes. Dean joins us for a conversation about music, social justice, immigration detention, Indigenous rights, and ...
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Adolescent Behavioral Health in Oregon
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Adolescent Behavioral Health in Oregon. The Oregon Legislature is out of session but during this interim period they get together regularly for legislative days during which committees meet to discuss topics and legislative concepts. Th...
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MORE THAN A GAME
In this episode of Prison Pipeline, Angela Kim speaks with Chris Lambert about incarceration, transformation, and what it means to rebuild a life after prison. Drawing from his own experiences, Chris reflects on the circumstances that led him to prison, the lessons he le...
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Inside Out with Reiko Hillyer
This Monday on Prison Pipeline, we’ll be talking with Reiko Hillyer, a professor of history at Lewis & Clark College, about the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. Hillyer has taught an Inside Out class called Crime and Punishment in the United States at Columbia River C...
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Closing The Camps
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Closing the Camps. The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is the only migrant family detention camp in the United States. According to Amnesty International, “Families detained there have reported prolonged incarc...
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Defending Immigrants' Rights
Once again murders of innocent people by Immigration Enforcement Agents have prompted a national outcry. Host Karen James speaks with Isa Peña a long-time organizer and leader in the immigrant justice movement in Oregon. Isa Peña is the Director of Strategy with Innovat...
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From Prison to Patient: Reimagining Health Care After Incarceration-Part 2
This week, Prison Pipeline continues its conversation with Hilary Nichols of Oregon Health & Science University's Richmond Clinic about the HEAL-R (Health Equity and Lived Experience at Richmond) program. In Part 2 of Prison Pipeline's conversation with Hilary Nichols of...
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Fatal Use of Force
We remember James Chasse with voices from the film Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse. James Chasse’s lifelong battle with schizophrenia tragically ended in 2006 when he was brutally killed by Portland police officers after they deemed James’ behavior “susp...
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Interview with Nazgol Ghandnoosh of The Sentencing Project
On this edition of Prison Pipeline, airing Monday, June 15th at 6:30 p.m. on KBOO Community Radio, we speak with Nazgol Ghandnoosh of The Sentencing Project about a new report examining how criminal records contribute to longer prison sentences and deepen racial inequiti...
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Remembering Brian Lindstrom
Oregon filmmaker Brian Lindstrom directed award winning documentaries such as Alien Boy: the Life and Death of James Chasse, Mothering Inside and other films that featured forgotten people who triumphed over adversity. Brian died on May 15th after a recent diagnosis of a...
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Restorative Roots Project
Adam Carpinelli interviews Brandon Brown with the Restorative Roots Project. One of their goals during this time is to redefine what it means to be a community restorative justice organization and create streamlined referral pathways and services with their partners and...
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Interview with Kimberly Jensen author of Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State
On Monday, May 18th at 6:30pm on KBOO Community Radio, I’ll be speaking with historian Kimberly Jensen on Prison Pipeline about surveillance, civil liberties, gender, and the hidden history of repression in Oregon. Jensen is a professor of history and gender studies at W...
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Connecting Resources to Empower Women
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Connecting Resources to Empower Women. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Taryn VanderPyl and Kailee Foster of CREW, Connecting Resources to Empower Women.
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Rethinking Fines, Fees and Restitution
Host Karen James speaks with Stefani Davis, CLEAR Clinic and Gus Patel-Tupper, Supervising Attorney with UC Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic about “The Price of Justice in Oregon, Rethinking Court-Ordered Monetary Sanctions” a new report written with the Oregon Justic...
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Death Behind Bars: Amya’s Fight for Justice
This Monday, April 27th at 6:30pm on KBOO Community Radio, I’ll be hosting Prison Pipeline, and this week’s episode is one you won’t want to miss. I sit down with Amya, who shares a deeply personal and devastating story about the loss of her loved one, Willie, who was ki...
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Convict Clothing with Lanae and Nolan
On Monday, April 20 at 6:30pm, tune in to Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM in Portland or streaming online at kboo.fm. Host Emma Lugo brings you a conversation with Lanae and Nolan, whose lives intersected through incarceration but have since transformed ...
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Dying on the Inside
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Dying on the Inside. The Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting releases its newest investigative podcast series, “Dying on the Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison,” on April 22. The series shines a light on the growing crisis ...
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Transition Services Funding for Multnomah County at Risk
Tonight at 6:30pm on KBOO Community Radio, Prison Pipeline brings you an urgent conversation about the future of transition services for people leaving incarceration in Multnomah County. Hosted by Emma Lugo, this episode focuses on a critical public health issue that sit...
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Ending Solitary Confinement
Host Karen James is joined by Alice Lundell and Mark Wilson from OJRC to discuss Solitary Confinement. State-Sanctioned Torture, A Symposium on Ending Solitary Confinement in Oregon, a one-day event, will be held Saturday, May 2nd at PSU Hoffman Hall in Portland. The eve...
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Passing on Mentorship: Red Lodge Transition Services
Adam Carpinelli interviews Trish Jordan with Red Lodge Transition Services based in Portland, Oregon. Red Lodge is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving Native American women and men by providing culturally responsive programming and services. More information...
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The Global War on Drugs
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: The Global War on Drugs. The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held its 69th session March 9 through 13. Delegates from many of the world’s nations along with officials from UN agencies and representatives of nongovernmental a...
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Prison News This Week on Prison Pipeline
This week on Prison Pipeline, co-host Emma Lugo brings listeners a roundup of important stories shaping the prison pipeline in Oregon and beyond. Tune in Monday, March 9 at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM in Portland, or streaming online at kboo.fm. This week...
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ACLU: ICE Lawsuits and Legislation
Host Karen James speaks with Sandy Chung, Executive Director of ACLU Oregon, who recently won an emergency order in their “Portland Chicken” v. Trump lawsuit to stop the Dept. of Homeland Security officers from retaliating against Portland ICE facility protesters. Sandy ...
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The People's Senate
Adam Carpinelli interviews Jalil Muntaqim, former Political Prisoner, co-founder of The Jericho Movement and Spirit of Mandela. Discussion focuses on the legacy of struggle for Black and Brown people, self-determination and new form of governance. Muntaqim launches his...
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Unmasking ICE
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Unmasking ICE. The United States is under siege by gangs of heavily armed goons, identities concealed by masks, assaulting and killing innocent people with impunity. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, America’s Gestapo, whatever ...
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Interview with Andrea Williams on the State of Hunger in Oregon
Tonight on Prison Pipeline, we turn our focus to hunger, poverty, and state policy in Oregon. Host Emma Lugo speaks with Andrea Williams, President of the Oregon Food Bank, about the release of the organization’s 2026 State of Hunger Report and what the latest data revea...
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Resisting ICE
The national spotlight has been on Minneapolis as ICE and border patrol escalate efforts to detain and deport immigrant community members. We mourn the loss of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, murdered by these federal cowards in masks with guns. In Oregon, the work continues...
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Oregon Legislative Update
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Oregon Legislative Preview. The Oregon Legislature’s 2026 session begins on February 2 and will last for only 35 days. Oregon has a part-time legislature, they’re in session for 160 days in odd-numbered years and just 35 days in even-nu...
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail
On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered...
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Resisting The Empire
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Resisting the Empire. Cities across the United States are under siege by an out-of-control autocratic federal government and its gun-toting goons. So far in the month of January, a federal agent named Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole...
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In Our Future We are Free - an Interview with Nell Bernstein
This Monday, January 5 at 6:30pm, Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio features an in-depth interview with journalist and author Nell Bernstein, whose reporting has helped transform the national conversation about youth incarceration. Over the past twenty years, the U...
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2025 in Review
Join Prison Pipeline hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James, Doug McVay & Adam Carpinelli as they reflect on 2025 and look ahead to the New Year.
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Holiday Messages
Join Prison Pipeline’s Holiday Special as hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James and Doug McVay share your holiday messages to your loved ones in prison. We’ll hear messages and shout outs from the Family Preservation Project alumni to the women and mothers in Coffee Creek Correct...
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Political Prisoner Updates
Adam Carpinelli interviews Paulette Dauteuil with The Jericho Movement for Political Prisoner amnesty. This grassroots organization and others work for the release of U.S.-based Political Prisoners as well as politicized Prisoners. More information: www.thejerichomov...
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“The Numbers,” Portland’s Forgotten East Side
This Live episode of Profiles explores the history of East Portland, as well as the impact of the current gentrification process on communities of color in "the Numbers" and highlights the creative efforts of residents to foster East Portland as a place where neighbor...
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Profiles-New KBOO Podcast- Episode 1
Morpheus Youth Project volunteers and students from MacLaren Youth Corrections kick off a unique KBOO podcast series that explores how our communities define crime and criminals,what are the effects of labeling communities as criminal or high crime, and how criminalit...
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