Media

Our major areas of work are:

  • Mass incarceration and prison industrial complex abolition

  • Actual innocence and wrongful convictions

  • Excessive sentencing and harsh punishments

  • Women in the criminal justice system

  • Youth justice and fair sentencing of youth

  • The intersection of criminal law and immigration law known as "crimmigration"

  • The death penalty

  • Re-entry and the collateral consequences of convictions

  • Civil rights of people intersecting with the criminal justice system and law enforcement

Primary media contact

Alice Lundell
Director of Communication.

Contact us with media inquiries only at the form below. For other inquiries, use our main contact page.

 

Press releases, statements, and letters

11/25/24 Public comment on proposed Board of Parole rule for “New procedure for emergency medical release from incarceration.”

9/30/24 The Oregon Innocence Project marks ten years of freeing wrongfully convicted Oregonians

9/18/24 Statement on lawsuits against the Oregon Youth Authority
Learn more about these cases at oyajustice.com

6/28/24 Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson

5/23/24 Statement on the National Commission on Correctional Healthcare audit of CCCF Health Services

5/8/24 Court orders Oregon woman freed from unlawful imprisonment after governor illegally revoked COVID-era commutation

5/2/24 OJRC calls on Governor Kotek to declare a state of emergency over conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

5/1/24 Letter to Governor Kotek regarding declaring a state of emergency at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

3/29/24 New report finds deteriorating conditions for Oregon’s incarcerated women since publication of critical independent review

3/14/24 Oregonians charged with crimes let down by shoddy work of defense attorney, highlighting failures of public defense system

3/7/24 Family of unarmed Black man shot dead by Portland Police sues the City and the officer responsible
3/7/24 Van Loo Fiduciary Services LLC. obo the Estate of Immanueal Jaquez Clark vs. City of Portland and Christopher Sathoff

2/29/24 Advocates demand answers on true costs of drug law changes

2/29/24 Fiscal Impact Statement letter to Oregon leaders

2/22/24 Letter from Speaker Rayfield and Senate President Wagner in response to OJRC’s Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement request

2/21/24 Advocates call for answers on how Oregonians of color will be harmed by proposed drug law changes

2/20/24 Racial and Ethnic Impact Statement request letter to Oregon leaders

2/5/24 Advocates warn against returning to War on Drugs-era laws allowing unfair convictions