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

9/29/26 Oregon Innocence Project marks Wrongful Conviction Day with new exoneration and push to close gap in Oregon law 

9/17/26 OJRC statement re "Portland Must Be Better Than This" statement from Chief Bob Day

9/11/26 Wrongfully Convicted Oregonian Scott Cannon to Spotlight Flawed Forensic Science at Oregon Innocence Project Benefit

7/22/26 OJRC Statement on the Release of the Secretary of State’s Audit Report on Oregon Prisons

6/24/26 Oregon Justice Resource Center and Sugerman Dahab Announce $49 Million Settlement of Lawsuit Over Handling of COVID-19 Pandemic by Oregon Department of Corrections

6/11/26 New Class Action Lawsuit Argues Oregon Department of Corrections’ Solitary Confinement Program Violates Oregon Constitution

4/23/26 Oregon Justice Resource Center to host statewide symposium on ending the use of solitary confinement in prison.

4/6/26 New data uncovers Oregonians’ billion-dollar burden of court fines and fees debt, trapping tens of thousands.

3/27/26 Federal Public Defender and Oregon Innocence Project client released after agreement with Oregon Department of Justice resolves case

1/30/26 Jury awards more than $760,000 in damages to owner of Portland cidery and tasting room Cider Riot

1/22/26 Oregon Department of Corrections pays $2.3 million settlement over death of 22-year-old in solitary confinement

1/12/26 Oregon woman wrongfully reincarcerated after illegal commutation revocation sues state

1/8/26 OJRC statement on CBP shooting of two people in Portland