Bobbin is joined by our Prison Outreach Coordinator and Policy Associate, Trevor Walraven and formerly incarcerated advocates Dr. Scott Spencer-Wolff and Kyle Hedquist. Reflecting on our recent report, ODOC: Agency in Crisis, Bobbin leads the conversation on their pipe dream of the “Norway model,” which is an attempt to humanize prisons, which poses the question of that’d even possible? They talk about the failures of ODOC which are often sanitized in untruthful language, like when ODOC Director Collette Peters called the disastrous wildfire evacuations of 2020 as an “absolute success.” Dr. Scott Spencer-Wolff, Kyle, and Trevor share about their experiences and insights as formerly incarcerated people.
The Trail Blazing Justice podcast is a production of the Oregon Justice Resource Center.