Oregon Justice Resource Center
@ojrcenter.bsky.social
A nonprofit law firm defending civil rights and ending mass incarceration in Oregon. Also ⛓️💥@oregoninnocence.bsky.social and 🎙️podcast Trail Blazing Justice.
At our request, the City of Portland has issued an official proclamation recognizing Oct 2nd as Wrongful Conviction Day in Portland! To celebrate, we are lighting the Morrison Bridge orange from Oct 2-4 and the businesses below are donating a portion of their proceeds to help us fight for justice.
Portland Police Chief Bob Day says he's lost confidence in Councilor Mitch Green. That comes after a blogger dug up tweets that Green made before joining City Council. We need to keep the focus on the bigger questions about policing and accountability in Portland. @inafutureage.bsky.social
Join us TOMORROW, 9/9 at noon for our continuing CLE series for Oregon attorneys. Sign-up: www.ojrc.info/cle
Oregon Justice Resource Center@ojrcenter.bsky.social · 4w agoOur monthly CLE series continues Sep. 9 with a focus on crimmigration/immigration, presented by Erin McKee & Joseph Justin Rollin, Co-Directors of our Immigrant Rights Project. Join us every second Wed. of the month at noon, via Zoom, 1 hr/1 credit. 11 sessions left! Register: www.ojrc.info/cle
Join us for our biggest fundraising event of the year for our program @oregoninnocence.bsky.social 🔸Date: September 16 at 6pm 🔸 Location: Hunt & Gather Catering in Portland 🔸 Tickets: $125 Grab your tickets before they're gone! www.oregoninnocence.org/this-is-inno...
⏳TWO WEEKS LEFT until we gather for our biggest fundraiser of the year & we need you there! On Sep 16 at Hunt & Gather Catering, we're coming together to raise the funds that help us do our work – fighting to free innocent Oregonians. Get your tickets TODAY www.oregoninnocence.org/this-is-inno...
Join us to remember & celebrate Portland documentarian Brian Lindstrom. Friends, colleagues & film subjects will share clips and stories, followed by a 9pm screening of Alien Boy. Sept 16, Cinema 21. Benefits The Family Preservation Project. Tix: ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/307...
Our monthly CLE series continues Sep. 9 with a focus on crimmigration/immigration, presented by Erin McKee & Joseph Justin Rollin, Co-Directors of our Immigrant Rights Project. Join us every second Wed. of the month at noon, via Zoom, 1 hr/1 credit. 11 sessions left! Register: www.ojrc.info/cle
Faith Leaders, Mental Health Alliance Call For Release of Full Investigation Into Cops’ Response to 2020 Protests www.portlandmercury.com/news/faith-l...
Faith Leaders, Mental Health Alliance Call For Release of Full Investigation Into Cops’ Response to 2020 Protests - Portland Mercury
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...
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Our new monthly CLE webinar series for Oregon attorneys begins WEDNESDAY! First up: litigating solitary confinement, presented by Ben Haile and Thad Betz. It’s an important conversation to have, so sign up now to secure your spot. See the full 12-month schedule and register: www.ojrc.info/cle
Our new monthly CLE webinar series for Oregon attorneys begins WEDNESDAY! First up: litigating solitary confinement, presented by Ben Haile and Thad Betz. It’s an important conversation to have, so sign up now to secure your spot. See the full 12-month schedule and register: www.ojrc.info/cle
"I don't think judges understand the country is now blanketed with these things and they're all interconnected." That is Sid Thaxter of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center in The New York Times on Flock's creepy license plate cameras. They read your plate everywhere you drive. And they never forget.
Oregon woman opens up about alleged domestic violence before receiving 10-year sentence over baby's death www.investigatewest.org/oregon-woman...
Oregon woman sentenced to 10 years for baby's death
A judge said the alleged domestic violence Deborah Albin experienced did not meet Oregon law’s strict criteria to avoid a mandatory-minimum sentence
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“The immediate question is what do we do about this obvious emergency? The wrong answer would be to build new prisons,” Alice Lundell, Oregon Justice Resource Center Could Oregon end up building more prisons to address earthquake safety concerns? oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/05/c...
Could Oregon end up building more prisons to address earthquake safety concerns? • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A new debate is emerging over how best Oregon should protect incarcerated people during dangerous seismic events.
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“The immediate question is what do we do about this obvious emergency? The wrong answer would be to build new prisons,” Alice Lundell, Oregon Justice Resource Center Could Oregon end up building more prisons to address earthquake safety concerns? oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/05/c...
Could Oregon end up building more prisons to address earthquake safety concerns? • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A new debate is emerging over how best Oregon should protect incarcerated people during dangerous seismic events.
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Our new monthly CLE webinar series for Oregon attorneys starts Aug. 12. First up: litigating solitary confinement, presented by Ben Haile and Thad Betz. It’s an important conversation to have, so sign up now to secure your spot. See the full 12-month schedule and register: www.ojrc.info/cle
Oregon woman opens up about alleged domestic violence before receiving 10-year sentence over baby's death www.investigatewest.org/oregon-woman...
Oregon woman sentenced to 10 years for baby's death
A judge said the alleged domestic violence Deborah Albin experienced did not meet Oregon law’s strict criteria to avoid a mandatory-minimum sentence
investigatewest.org
Our new monthly CLE webinar series for Oregon attorneys starts Aug. 12. First up: litigating solitary confinement, presented by Ben Haile and Thad Betz. It’s an important conversation to have, so sign up now to secure your spot. See the full 12-month schedule and register: www.ojrc.info/cle
Why sentencing reform for domestic violence survivors keeps falling short in Oregon www.investigatewest.org/why-sentenci...
Why an Oregon reform to help DV survivors keeps failing
Advocates are pushing for a survivor justice law like those in other states, but a two-thirds legislative majority presents a major hurdle
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As summer heat continues, is Oregon doing enough for people in solitary confinement? oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/07/24/a...
As summer heat continues, is Oregon doing enough for people in solitary confinement? • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Some state prisons and the incarcerated Oregonians they house are going without a key tool to beat the heat: central air conditioning.
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The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison — the longest sentence a U.S. court has ever given to a group of political anarchist defendants.
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 3mo agoThen They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Judge Reed O’Connor reportedly said at sentencing that he “wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.” This ideology, in the words of FBI Director Kash Patel, is “Antifa-aligned anarchis[m].”
A jury has found the Oregon Department of Corrections was negligent for failing to allow our incarcerated clients to cleanse and decontaminate themselves from pepper spray. Some waited more than 40 hours for a shower. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
Oregon prison negligent for not allowing prisoners to wash off pepper spray, jury finds
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.
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Students missed classes, left school and struggled to learn as the fear of ICE undermined the school year. www.opb.org/article/2026...
In May, Tony Carruthers joined a horrifying list of more than 270 people across the country who have had their executions botched. He is one of only a handful who survived. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee must grant Tony clemency to prevent him from being tortured again.
Lethal injections are more likely to be botched, experts say
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
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