86 Londer Center grads, once in trouble, celebrate finishing their educations 
OregonLive 5-18-12
For the men and women who received certificates of achievement Thursday from the Donald H. Londer Center for Learning, graduation was less about beginnings or endings as it was about transitions... 

Oregon's First Lady has a message for youth locked up at the Donald E.Long Detention Center
KXL Radio Coverage of JDH event  4-6-12

Multnomah County using alcohol detection bracelets
KOIN Local 6    3-29-12
DCJ Probation/Parole Officers have started using alcohol detection bracelets to help certain offenders on supervision remain sober...

PNCA students, incarcerated teens collaborate to create art show
OregonLive 3-20-11
Ashley is a student at the Donald E. Long Home, a juvenile detention center in Portland, and her poem starts like this...:

Prison Pipeline 
KBOO Radio 2-20-12
Join host Peter Pincetl for a discussion about the Multnomah County Reentry Council. Featured guests include Scott Taylor, chair of the council and director of the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Dina Dickerson, a public health informaticist, and Doug Cooper, assistant director of Mercy Corps NW and a representative of Re-entry Organizations and Resources...

Thief targets county work crew at rose garden
Fox 12 Oregon 2-2-12
A court-ordered work crew was performing community service in Washington Park on Wednesday when someone broke into their Multnomah County transport van and ripped them off.

Trafficking Trust -Portland's New Shelter for Sex-Trafficked Youth Leaves Doubt at the Door 
The Portland Mercury 1-26-12
Nothing about the white two-story house in Southeast Portland is out of the ordinary. It's quiet, with a manicured lawn, tucked into a similarly plain neighborhood. It hardly deserves a second glance—which is exactly what the occupants are going for...

Drug court grads celebrate 20-year program 
KGW.com 12-15-11
Celebration tonight for a groundbreaking program in Multnomah County...

Multnomah County's groundbreaking STOP drug-treatment court celebrates 20 years and 2,500 graduates today 
OregonLive 12-15-11
Sage Herron, like so many others, credits Multnomah County's STOP drug-treatment court with saving him from an early death. STOP court and his mom, that is...

Drug Court
KXL.com 12-15-11
Multnomah County Drug Court reaches a milestone today, operating for 20 years and making it one of the oldest drug courts in the nation...

Pedophile sentenced in child porn case is brain damaged, lacks impulse control
OregonLive 12-7-11
Terrence Sundsmo sat noiselessly in a downtown Portland courtroom today, hands resting placidly on his pale blue jail scrubs, waiting for the chance to say his piece before a federal judge sentenced him to prison... 

Dropouts given another chance at Multnomah Education Service District's Reconnection Centers
OregonLive 12-9-11
Julie Monasmith never liked going to school. She had problems at home and didn't like leaving her mom alone; she eventually dropped out of Centennial High School...

Action on Gangs Wanted
The Portland Observer 12-7-11
More than 50 members of the community, many who have been personally impacted by gang violence, attended a forum last week to say the time for action is now, or youth bloodshed will never come to an end...

Forum discusses multi-faceted, community-based approach to Portland's growing gang violence
OregonLive 12-2-11
"How many of you have been touched by violence?"John Canda's words washed over a packed Jefferson High School cafeteria Thursday night as most of the audience put a hand in the air...

It Takes A Village
KBOO Community Radio  12-2-11
Host Shaheed Haamid and guest Hank Stern, spokesman for Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, honor the passing of Rob Ingram, director of the Mayor's Office of Youth Violence Prevention, and discus what is being done about youth violence in the community...

Jefferson H.S. community says they want neighborhood violence to stop
Fox 12 News 12-2-11
Parents, students and members of the community surrounding Jefferson High School met in the school auditorium on Thursday to talk about ways to fight back against gang violence...

Gang Outreach Community Forum
KXL.Com 12-2-11
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Gang Forum Calls For New Approaches To End Violence
OPB News 12-2-11
About one hundred people gathered Thursday night for a forum on gang violence at Jefferson High School in Northeast Portland...