Dear Governor

Jarvis is taking your calls and answering your questions! Please call and leave him a message at 201-903-3575 or send an email to [email protected] addition, Jarvis’s lead attorney and partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Michael Williams, joins us to give the latest updates on Jarvis’s federal appeals process. If you’d like to support Jarvis Masters’s cause, please considering signing a petition on his behalf at www.freejarvis.org Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recently, the Awake Network and Shambhala Publications hosted a free online event, “The Black and Buddhist Summit,” that attracted over 10 thousand participants. We share Jarvis’s fireside chat, talking about race, transformation and the experience of being Black while Buddhist on death row.We also meet, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, author of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Healing.If you’d like to support Jarvis Masters’s cause, please considering signing a petition on his behalf at www.freejarvis.org  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at the Marshall Project, shares the good news of his latest book, LET THE LORD SORT THEM; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DEATH PENALTY.About the book, Publishers weekly wrote, “A nuanced and deeply reported account of evolving attitudes toward the death penalty in America… a thorough, finely written, and unflinching look at on of the most controversial aspects of the American justice system.”If you’d like to support Jarvis Masters’s cause, please considering signing a petition on his behalf at www.freejarvis.org  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The practice of ‘solitary confinement’ goes by many names, including, disciplinary confinement, security housing, and restricted housing… All are euphemisms to soften the harsh and torturous reality of solitary… Jarvis shares how he was able to survive for 22 years locked away in a 9x4 cell 23-24 hours a day!We’ll also hear from the co-founder of the California Families Against Solitary Confinement and the Community Outreach Director of the Bail Project, Dolores Canales.Professor Haney’s groundbreaking book is, CRIMINALITY IN CONTEXT (THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.)If you’d like to support Jarvis Masters’s cause, please considering signing a petition on his behalf at www.freejarvis.org  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Haney, who represented Jarvis Masters at his capital trial, is a social psychologist and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, renown for is work on the front lines of the criminal justice system. Professor Haney explains why, ‘Jarvis’s case continues to haunt him to this day.’Professor Haney’s groundbreaking book is, CRIMINALITY IN CONTEXT (THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.)If you’d like to support Jarvis Masters’s cause, please considering signing a petition on his behalf at www.freejarvis.org  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.