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Rev. LeRoy Haynes Jr. has been fighting for decades for civil rights, justice, and accountable policing. In the wake of city officials declining to hold Portland Police Bureau’s top leadership respons...

Rep. Farrah Chaichi, D- Beaverton/Aloha, led this effort and she joins us to share more about the effect she hopes the letter to the Oregon Department of Corrections will have and what she and other l...

Marion County Sheriff Nick Hunter, a member of a state workgroup on law enforcement training, says required annual training must be improved.

A new lawsuit alleges that police placed a body-worn camera on a counter and secretly recorded a woman as she provided a urine sample.

A judge said the alleged domestic violence Deborah Albin experienced did not meet Oregon law’s strict criteria to avoid a mandatory-minimum sentence

A new debate is emerging over how best Oregon should protect incarcerated people during dangerous seismic events.

A new debate is emerging over how best Oregon should protect incarcerated people during dangerous seismic events.

A judge said the alleged domestic violence Deborah Albin experienced did not meet Oregon law’s strict criteria to avoid a mandatory-minimum sentence

Demonstrators gathered in Springfield’s Thurston area on July 29, 2020 in protest of a noose that was hanging from a tree in a nearby yard.

Advocates are pushing for a survivor justice law like those in other states, but a two-thirds legislative majority presents a major hurdle

Some state prisons and the incarcerated Oregonians they house are going without a key tool to beat the heat: central air conditioning.

The jury awarded $5,000 in damages to a man with paraplegia who was unable to use the sink in his cell to wash off the spray and a man who was in a shower stall but not allowed to use the shower.

Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution chamber in 1999. AP Photo/Mark

Parents in eight states can be acquitted if they can show “reasonable fear” of escalating violence

YouTube video by Oregon Justice Resource Center

Court greenlights Trump administration's termination of TPS for Syria and Haiti and eliminated most judicial review of TPS decision-making

The Supreme Court issued two seismic immigration law decisions, ruling 6-3 in the Trump administration’s favor in a TPS and an asylum case.

This fact sheet provides an overview of how TPS designations are made, what benefits TPS confers, and how TPS beneficiaries apply for and regularly renew their status.

The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $49 million dollars to the families of inmates who died while in state custody during the COVID-19 pandemic and to the more than 5,000 people who contracted the v...

The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $49 million dollars to the families of inmates who died while in state custody during the COVID-19 pandemic and to the more than 5,000 people who contracted the v...

Oregon's prisons are facing a sweeping new challenge to one of their most entrenched practices: solitary confinement. A new class action lawsuit filed in Oregon state court on behalf of hundreds of pe...

In recent years, the state Department of Corrections’ use of disciplinary segregation has trended upward, according to data. Several prisoners say the agency is violating Oregon’s Constitution.

An investigation found there were at least 47 suicides in solitary confinement in Mississippi, where cries for mental health care were met with isolation and punishment.