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Next up, the Board of Parole of Post-Prison Supervision who make decisions about granting parole and release dates for people in prison in Oregon. There are 5 board members who are appointed by @OregonGovBrown for 4 years. #WIPConf
@OregonGovBrown The Board also establishes supervision conditions for all adults released from prison, deals with people who violate parole/post-prison supervision and assess and classifies people who have to register as sex offenders. #WIPConf
@OregonGovBrown Board has been focusing on justice-involved women in #Oregon in recent years in partnership w/ the federal Office of Justice Programs and looking at how well Oregon's practices meet national best practice. #WIPConf
Day 2 dawns at the Women in Prison Conference and today we're shifting focus to the reforms that may help survivor-defendants at different stages on their journey through the criminal system. #WIPConf
Our first speakers Melissa and Zuleyma both have experience as survivor-defendants and are sharing their stories with our guests. #WIPConf
Zuleyma: "I realize how love can be so blind...the degree of psychological manipulation that was being used on me [in my abusive relationship.]" #WIPConf
Next up we have attorney Kasia Rutledge who represents capital defendants & is an anti-oppression trainer and Dr. Sarina Saturn, Associate Professor, Psychological Sciences, @UPortland #WIPConf
@UPortland They'll be discussing how trauma shows up in our brains, bodies and behavior. #WIPConf
@UPortland Dr Saturn specializes in the biology of emotions and says they can be completely debilitating or empowering but they have evolved to serve us as teachers. #WIPConf
Chris Huffine is a psychologist and ED of @AlliesinChange and he's speaking next with Susan Reyes-Torres, group facilitator/conductor also with Allies. #WIPConf
@AlliesinChange Chris and Susan are talking about women arrested for #domesticviolence perpetration and differentiating between primary and secondary aggressors. #WIPConf
Among women arrested for #domesticviolence, their male partners were the primary aggressors in 3-8x more couples than where the women were the primary aggressors. #WIPConf
If you want more events like our Women in Prison Conference and more work to lift up the voices of women in prison and build a more gender-responsive justice system: donate! Your support is vital to growing our Women's Justice Project. Thank you! #WIPConf forms.donorsnap.com/form?id=f1f1dd…
Our next speaker, our Women's Justice Project Director Julia Yoshimoto will be talking about our #HerStoryOregon Survey of women incarcerated at Coffee Creek in #Oregon. That's just one of the initiatives our WJP has launched. #WIPConf ojrc.info/herstory-orego…
Our #HerStoryOregon Survey reports so far (more to come) focus on women's experience of intimate partner violence and also mental health, physical health & addiction. #WIPConf ojrc.info/herstory-orego… 
Mike Schmidt: Since the 1980s, changes in the law have contributed to the growing numbers of women in prison in #Oregon. @OregonCJC #WIPConf
Mike Schmidt: Some of those changes such as #Measure11 (1995) created mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes. No good time, no sentence reduction, no matter what. @OregonCJC #WIPConf
Senate Bill 1145 created an agreement between the State of Oregon and the counties that anyone serving more than a year would go to a state prison. @OregonCJC #WIPConf
We are privileged to welcome @RepTawnaSanchez as our keynote speaker for our 2019 Women in Prison Conference #WIPConf
@RepTawnaSanchez .@RepTawnaSanchez Europeans brought [to the Americas] the concept that women did not even own their own bodies, did not manage their own affairs...very different from Native practices.
.@RepTawnaSanchez Europeans also brought the concept of prison. There were no such buildings before their arrival.
