LATE IN THE AFTERNOON on Sunday, thousands of potential boat owners swarmed into Portland’s Expo Center. On their way in, a dozen protesters confronted them. The loosely organized group Skippers for Clean Oregon Water (SCOW), held signs and barked out accusations that jet skis dump a Exxon Valdez tanker full of gas and oil into […]
Ian Thompson
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NEW AGE PRISONER REFORM
Programs Try to Rehab Convicts With Soul Searching
EVERY YEAR, Oregon releases nearly 3000 inmates from its penitentiaries. Within three years, about one-third of those people will return to prison. It is what critics of the state’s penal system call a revolving door. But these same critics are doing more than simply finger-pointing. Discouraged by the reform efforts of prisons, a handful of […]