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

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

11/14/23 Letter from OJRC to Governor Kotek regarding the Oregon Department of Corrections’ initial recommendations in response to the Gender Informed Practices Assessment

11/3/23 Abortion rights of Oregonians in jail are under threat, finds new report

10/24/23 Statement on the appointment of Mike Reese as Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections

10/5/23 Oregon Innocence Project client freed from prison after wrongful conviction leads to decades-long prison sentence for another offense

9/6/23 Oregon Innocence Project statement on the release of our former client Jesse Johnson

8/17/23 Statement on the release of the Gender Informed Practices Assessment of Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

7/28/23 OJRC and Multnomah Defenders, Inc. call for urgent inquiry into recent Multnomah County jail deaths

7/28/23 Letter from OJRC and Multnomah Defenders, Inc. to the Multnomah County Commissioners regarding deaths in custody at the Multnomah County jail

7/13/23 New report exposes decline in prison conditions, suffering of incarcerated Oregonians, that demand urgent attention

6/27/23 Dozens of civil rights organizations, faith groups, vow to continue fight to guarantee voting rights for incarcerated Oregonians

6/27/23 Incarcerated Oregonians will die in prison needlessly due to failure to pass compassionate release reform

6/26/23 Letter of support for City of Portland U visa recommendations to the Portland Police Bureau

5/1/23 Spotlight shines on the rise of the constitutional sheriffs movement in Oregon

4/27/23 New report: Restoring voting rights for justice-impacted individuals can improve community wellbeing in Oregon

4/25/23 Statement from the OJRC on the Portland Police Bureau’s body-worn camera pilot project policy

4/11/23 Son of Robert Delgado, shot dead by Portland Police in Lents Park in 2021, sues city over father's death