Despite what the Oregon Department of Corrections says, you cannot and should not try to build an airplane while flying it! Extreme weather events and prisons, and, generally, the lack of oversight of ODOC.
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Bobbin is joined by Zach Winston, Policy Director at OJRC to open Oregon's junk drawer only to find the Oregon Department of Corrections recent presentation at the legislature. In an assortment of bad practices, your hosts talk about the now well-understood Trumpian tactic of misdirection and sanitization that agencies like ODOC too frequently employ. They talk about much harm was done to 12,000+ incarcerated Oregonians during the historic yet expected 2020 wildfire season and 2021 heatwave, of which Peters called their lack of and a disaster of an evacuation plan "an absolute success" because no was killed. As ODOC operates as an unchecked agency, by design, Bobbin and Zach riff off some more failures of the Oregon prison system, and how adults in custody ultimately suffer and are not thought of or cared for by elected officials.
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