Oregon Justice Resource Center

Mission

Our goal is to promote civil rights and improve legal representation for communities that have often been underserved in the past: people living in poverty and people of color among them. OJRC works to divest from policing and the criminal legal system as we currently understand them and invest in communities. 

Bottom Line for Portland

Mass incarceration is the greatest civil rights issue of our time. We have over 5,000 jails and prisons in the U.S. and the related infrastructure and resources that support it; it is the most comprehensive network of detention the world has ever known. We work to dismantle these structures of White Supremacy and re-imagine a new value system to community well-being: one that is not discriminatory toward people of color and those living in the margins. We are proud to be the only legal organization in Oregon directly representing people at all stages of the criminal legal system at no cost to the client.

Quote

“I’m just glad to be free. It’s been a long time coming, I’m relieved it’s finally here and now I want to enjoy it.” Danyale Gill, pictured, exonerated thanks to the Oregon Innocence Project (a legal program of OJRC) after 25 years in prison.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Confronting and dismantling mass incarceration necessarily means attacking the white supremacy and its value system.  We actively work to identify and address the ways in which BIPOC Oregonians, women, youth, and marginalized groups in particular are impacted by the carceral system. OJRC is committed to upholding that Black Lives Matter and working to advance racial justice. For individual rights to have any meaning, we must protect them for everyone, without exception.

Incentives

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