Tools to Promote Safer Communities

Diverse interests come together to support the state’s promising program for criminal justice reform.

Oregon looks to model Washington’s Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison.

Why were more people going to prison in Oregon?

When the dust settles following any significant change in my life — a new job, a new home, a birth, a death — my mind starts asking me questions. I blame my father for this.

Changing policies takes time. Many people need to process their own trauma now. We have an opportunity to better understand, discuss, and attend to the trauma that has been created by this tragic violence.

In fact, “Spare the Jail” is a one-sided tribute to the dying gasps of dinosaurs whose time is coming to an end.

Voter turnout is traditionally very low. Even lower, however, is voter turnout in primary elections.