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CeCe Winans Performs
Live for Juneteenth
The Economics of Incarceration:
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eCe Winans per-
forming live in
Portland on June
16th 2011 for the
Freedom Day Celebration
at New Beginnings
Church and Conference
Center.
The legendary 11 time
Grammy winning CeCe
Winans is appearing in
concert for the Freedom
Day Celebration in honor
of Juneteenth.
CeCe Winans is making
her first appearance in
Portland and will be per-
forming her latest album
at New Beginnings
Church located at 3300
NE 172nd Pl. Other per-
formances are by Saeeda
Wright,
Alonzo
Chadwick,
Derrick
McDuffie,
Chosen
Generation, the 9 year old
poet Da Future who
recently performed
for Governor John
Kitzhaber and host
Dj is OG-ONE.
Winans is best
known for her inspi-
rational
hits
“Alabaster Box,” “I
Pray,” “Mercy Said
No,” “It Wasn’t
Easy,” “I Surrender
All,” “Waging War”
and many more. Her
latest album “For Always” is a compilation
of her most popular songs. Her collection of
Top Ten R&B radio hits include “Count on
CeCe Winans
Me,” her duet with Whitney
Houston, from the Waiting to
Exhale soundtrack.
The
Freedom
Day
Celebration is a multi-cultur-
al event in honor of
Juneteenth. This year marks
the first full feature concert
featuring a national act in
honor of Juneteenth in
Portland.
Advance tickets are avail-
able at all TicketsWest loca-
tions, online (www.ticketswest.com), at
Safeway and at the venue prior to the event.
VIP tickets are also available.
The Freedom Day
Celebration is a
multi-cultural
event in honor of
Juneteenth
Page 6 The Portland Skanner June 8, 2011
Pay Now or Pay More later
E Portland’s Better People will host
its biannual education forum at
Irvington Covenant Church (4046
NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland
Oregon 97211) on Thursday, June 9th from
11:30 to 1:30pm.
The focus of the spring forum is The
Economics of Incarceration: Pay Now or
Pay More Later. A panel of local profes-
sional versed in criminal justice issues will
discuss the costs and benefits of incarcera-
tion as opposed to rehabil-
itation. The forum will be
moderated by KOIN TV-
Channel 6 anchor and
reporter Ken Boddie.
Panelists will present their
perspective on this issue
during the first hour, fol-
lowed by Q and A during
the second hour. Members
of the audience are
encouraged to ask ques-
tions and/or state their
points of view.
Panelists include: Lane
Borg, Executive Director,
Metropolitan
Public
Defenders
Office,
Multnomah
County
Oregon; Ray Hudson, Addictions Program
Manager, Mental Health and Addictions
Services Division, Department of County
Human Services, Multnomah County,
Oregon; Jamaica Imani, Founder &
Executive Director, Purtty Home, Portland,
Oregon; the Honorable Edward Jones,
Judge, District Court, Multnomah County
Oregon; Kevin Mannix, Executive Director,
Oregon Anti-Crime Alliance, Salem,
Oregon; Ginger Martin, Director,
Transitions, Oregon Dept. of Corrections,
Salem, Oregon; Lt. Vera Pool, Multnomah
County Sheriff’s Office, Portland, Oregon;
Craig Prins, Executive Director, Oregon
Criminal Justice Council, Salem, Oregon.
For 13 years, Better People has helped
individuals who have legal histories receive
second chance opportunities and placed
over 800 clients in living wage jobs. This
program has been empirically proven to
help reduce rates of recidivism.
Twice a year, Better People hosts an edu-
cational forum designed to promote discus-
sion of topical issues. Past forum topics
have included employing
individuals convicted of
sexual offenses, issues
surrounding homeless-
ness, mental illness, learn-
ing disabilities and gang
activity in the Portland
metropolitan area. Past
panelists have included
public officials including
Portland’s mayor, Oregon
state and other local offi-
cials from the criminal jus-
tice system and area uni-
versities.
“It is well known that
the United States has the
highest rate of incarcera-
tion in the western world.
Unfortunately, our rate of incarceration con-
tinues to increase,” said Better People
Executive Director Clariner Boston. “The
economic impact of continuing to incarcer-
ate people instead of treating them where
possible cannot continue to be ignored -
such growth is simply financially unsustain-
able. In addition, on a practical level, incar-
ceration rates reflect gross minority and
income levels of disparities. This is morally
wrong. Better People is proud to contribute
to an intellectual discussion regarding the
role of the prison system in our society.”
A panel of local
professional
versed in
criminal justice
issues will discuss
the costs and
benefits of
incarceration as
opposed to
rehabilitation