This week, Executive Director Jodi Hansen joins in the celebration of Pride Month and reflects on the injustices that the LGBTQ community shares with incarcerated folks.

Want to get involved in criminal justice reform in Oregon?

Check out these 5 bills that we have chosen to support this legislative session, and need your help to accomplish!

You've heard about "cruel and unusual punishment," but what about cruel and unusual healthcare? Executive Director Jodi Hansen contemplates the health of incarcerated folks and the egregious neglect they face inside.

This week, Executive Director Jodi Hansen reflects on the Derek Chauvin trial and its repercussions. Join her in discussion of the events of the last year, Mass Incarceration, and more.

The topic of episode 7 is one well-known alternative to prison-- drug court. Following up on episode 6, Jodi connects how prison can actually decrease accountability whereas more community-based programs such as drug court can help develop it.

Jodi is back this week to discuss accountability and how it factors into our work with folks coming back from prison. Join her in considering the different aspects of criminal thinking and what it means to be incarcerated without access the support you need.

Today, Executive Director Jodi Hansen tells a couple of stories about some of our Neighbors-in-Transition (or NITs) and how a little help can go a long way.

After a long Covid-induced hiatus the Remnant Initiatives vlog is back! Catch up with Executive Director, Jodi about vaccinations, rural re-entry, and how to move forward in such stressful times.

How many people does it take to plan a prison release?

We explore the complexity and importance of release planning in our latest vlog.

I was 17, recently dropped out of high school, and high on pot, alcohol and Black Beauties—just another Friday night house party for me. But this one would change my life.

As I made my way through the sea of dancing bodies, looking for the familiar faces of “my crowd”—and the cocaine they would be snorting—someone answered my questions about where I would find them by saying they were in the back bedroom shooting up….

How has COVID-19 affected reentry and the work Remnant Initiatives does? Hear about the new challenges arising amid the pandemic and how RI is continuing its work for healthier, safer communities while trying to maintain social distancing rules and limit the risk of infections.

We are thrilled to share stories about Remnant Initiatives and reentry in the nonurban context in the first segment in our new video blog series!

Historical crises have always provided writers and filmmakers with the best content for creating amazing stories about human triumph. Books and film are great ways for us to look back at what life was like before that disaster that changed everything…

George Bailey is losing it! He is at the end of his rope and contemplating suicide. He is tired of his miserable life. His big dreams of a life of travel, education, and adventure have all been thwarted by circumstance and his self-sacrificial habit of putting others’ needs before his own desires…

Patty and Jerry Wetterling lived through a parent’s worst nightmare—the abduction of their child. In response, Patty became a national figure for establishing sex offender registries as a way to protect our children. But today, she says we were wrong. Patty didn’t change her mind because her child’s abduction had a happy ending. No, she and her family anguished—not knowing what had happened to their son Jacob…

My various news feeds have been recently peppered with reports of Rob Lowe’s October interview on SiriusXM where he characterizes the sex scandal of 1989 as the “best thing that happened to me”. He states, the experience got him sober, a wife and now he has a charmed life with two great sons. Lowe has never denied having sex with the 16-year-old he met in a night club in Atlanta in 1988…

Last Friday was one of those fabulous late summer days in the Willamette Valley that beckons all of us to get out of the office. Luckily, for the VISTA’s and me, we had an important meeting offsite—at a winery! Our meeting was with Erich Berg who works for Day Wines but is getting ready to launch his own label—Ricochet…