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In addition, Jarvisâs lead attorney and partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Michael Williams, joins us to give the latest updates on Jarvisâs federal appeals process.
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Recently, the Awake Network and Shambhala Publications hosted a free online event, âThe Black and Buddhist Summit,â that attracted over 10 thousand participants. We share Jarvisâs 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.
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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, âA 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.â
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The practice of âsolitary confinementâ 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!
Weâll 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 Haneyâs groundbreaking book is, CRIMINALITY IN CONTEXT (THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.)
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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, âJarvisâs case continues to haunt him to this day.â
Professor Haneyâs groundbreaking book is, CRIMINALITY IN CONTEXT (THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.)
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There is an adage made popular in 1954 by President Eisenhower, that there are âno atheists in a fox hole.â The idea behind the phrase is that anyone who finds themselves in position of extreme stress, where death is all but imminent, he or she will seek comfort of a higher power. Meet the Buddhist Chaplain who was instrumental in nurturing and reinforcing Jarvisâs burgeoning Buddhist mind.
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Finding Freedom How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart By: Jarvis Jay Masters and Narrated by: Dion Graham is available at Shambhala.com and at Audible.com
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When Jarvis Masters first entered the walls of San Quentin State Prison four decades ago, he was by his own admission angry and bitter, filled with vitriol pent up from a lifetime of abuse, neglect, and hopelessness. Were it not for the foresight and compassion of a singular woman at a very pivotal time in his life, Jarvis admits he would have likely continued along the seemingly preordained pipeline from cradle to prison to casket.
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Finding Freedom How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart By: Jarvis Jay Masters and Narrated by: Dion Graham is available at Shambhala.com and at Audible.com
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We find out why Jarvis Masters agreed to give permission and unfettered access to his story to the perfect stranger, resulting in a stunning and deeply moving biography about change and redemption. THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW by David Sheff.
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David Sheff, author of THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW; HOW ONE MAN FOUND LIGHT IN THE DARKEST PLACE, shares the story behind the story of Jarvis Masters and how the two of them forged a lasting friendship. Of Davidâs biography, His Holiness, The Dalai Lama writes, âThis book shows vividly how, even in the face of the greatest adversity, compassion and a warm-hearted concern for others bring peace and inner strength.â
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Heâs filed for appeal in the federal courts. What does that mean for Jarvis and the next steps in his pursuit to find justice? Hear from the experts and learn what awaits him on the horizon. Jarvis has requested that we dedicate this season of âDear Governor,â to the late Michael Satris, who devoted his life to criminal justice reform and sat as second chair at Jarvisâs defense trial in the 80âs.
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Since his final state appeal at the end of last season, a stellar team of attorneys has assembled around Jarvis Masters, pledging to represent his death penalty case at federal level. We will follow his riveting case and meet some of those experts as they work to help Jarvis find freedom after over forty years of incarceration. And we will dig deeper into facets of Jarvisâs life as well as the deeply flawed criminal justice system.
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Due to the coronavirus, all phone communications in and out of San Quentin have been cut off. Like a wildfire, covid-19 has devastated the prison. The last we heard from Jarvis Masters he had been ravaged by the virus. It is unconscionable that family members and friends have no idea how their loved ones are faring on the inside. Dear Governor Newsom, Jarvis has a solution. On behalf of Jarvis, Actor Dion Graham voices his plea.
Last week Shambhala Publications released Jarvisâs latest autobiographical book, FINDING FREEDOM: HOW DEATH ROW BROKE AND OPENED MY HEART. Also available at Audible.
Jarvisâs op-ed, âLetting prisoners use cellphones makes sense â now more than ever.â
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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This verdict is in. And despite all of the compelling new evidence that bolsters Jarvisâs innocence, the California Supreme Court chose confirm his death sentence. You will hear Jarvisâs reaction to the courts decision, and what this means for the future of his life. The vast majority of the legal insights into Jarvisâs substantial claims of innocence were published in the article: âUnrequited Innocence in U.S. Capital Cases: Unintended Consequences of the Fourth Kindâ by Rob Warden and John Seasly
The late Geronimo Pratt was imprisoned at San Quentin for 27 years for a murder he did not commit and awarded 4.5 Million Dollars from federal and local governments as settlement in a wrongful-imprisonment suit. While at San Quentin, he befriended Jarvis.
Hear him bearing witness to his young friend, at the launch party for Jarvisâs first book, âFinding Freedom, Writings from Death Row.â
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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Jarvis was charged with the conspiracy to commit murder back in 1985, and was sentenced to death in June of 1990. Find out why Jarvis, who never stabbed the corrections officer was sentenced to death, while two others involved in the murder, for whom there was much more damning evidence, were sentenced to life without parole. Hear about his case, and learn about the notorious prison snitches who testified on behalf of the state to implicate Jarvis to the murder.
Hear Jarvisâs haunting a PEN Award winning poem, âRecipe for Prison Pruno,â which intertwines his death sentence with his now famous recipe for prison hooch.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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In this episode we will hear details of the bloody murder of a corrections officer, the crime that landed Jarvis Masters on death row. You will hear Jarvisâs recollections of that fated night, along with the memories of the Head Warden who was in charge, and one of the attorneys that represented Jarvis at the murder trial in the late 1980âs. You will also learn the mind-blowing way in which Jarvis first learned that he was implicated in the conspiracy to commit murder.
Meet Michael Satris, a defense attorney that sat second chair on Jarvisâs murder trial and believes it a travesty that Jarvis is still in prison, much less on death row.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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For obvious reasons, Jarvis has a very personal take on the morality and ethics of capital punishment. Having been an inmate at San Quentin for 40 years, he has personally known men who have been executed. He has counseled fellow inmates who suffer from great depression, as they face their own mortality daily. And, he believes that if people on the outside knew that there were innocent people on death row, they could not in good conscience allow the government to execute them. You will also hear from the lead executioner who was in charge the day of the murder in which Jarvis was implicated.
Meet Pema Chodron, beloved Buddhist teacher, author and nun, who has been Jarvisâs spiritual advisor for over two decades.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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To share in the sorrow, and join in solidarity with the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Brianna Taylor, and so many more families of color who have lost loved ones for absolutely no reason; to show respect to the hundreds of thousands of courageous individuals across the country protesting the injustice and brutality; and to use our voices to echo the self-evident truth that BLACK LIVES MATTER, this week, âDear Governor,â is disrupting our regular feed in order to participate in the #PodcastBlackOut. Death row inmate, Jarvis J. Masters weighs in on the loss of George Floyd, the civil unrest, and the vitality of the Black Lives Matter movement. And we share the stories of so many men of color who were sentenced to death, only to be found innocent after decades in prison.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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The juvenile justice system taught Jarvis how to fight, and while still a boy, defined for him what it meant to be a man, fierce, angry and proud. There were times when he tried to rise above and escape the cradle to prison pipeline, but the gravitational pull was too strong to resist. Excerpting sections of his memoir, âThat Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row,â we will hear how Jarvis had to fight to survive, and about the âdamn fool behavior,â he admits initially put him in prison at the ripe young age of 19.
Meet Marty Krasney, a decades long friend and confidante of Jarvis and the former Executive Director of Dalai Lama Fellows.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
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Though only 6.5 percent of Californians are black, African Americans make up 29 percent of the prison population and 36 percent of those condemned to death. Jarvis was born into poverty and abuse so extreme, he shot past the âcradle to prison pipeline,â straight to the âcradle to death row pipeline.â Enlil McRae, from the Truthworker Theatre Company, reads passages from Jarvisâs memoir, âThat Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row,â You will learn about Jarvisâs formative years, his struggles to survive and the foster parents who imprinted on him the meaning of love.
Meet David Sheff, author of a new biography on Jarvis, âThe Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place.â David has spent the last several years visiting with Jarvis, and has amassed hundreds of hours of interviews with him, and those people who had the greatest impact on Jarvisâs life. David is also the author of the memoir, âBeautiful Boy: A Fatherâs Journey Through His Sonâs Addiction.â
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
Have a question for Jarvis that youâd like to hear him answer on the podcast, please leave a message on our hotline: 201-903-3575 or, [email protected]
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Host, Corny Koehl, attends the oral arguments for Jarvis Masterâs final state appeal before the California Supreme Court. His writ of Habeas Corpus was filed back in 2005, and Jarvis has been languishing in wait all this time. As his appellate attorneys present new evidence that bolsters Jarvisâs claims of innocence, will the Court decide to exonerate him or confirm his sentence to death?
Meet Connie Pham, an outspoken advocate for Jarvis. As a 15 year old student, she was so moved by Jarvisâs first book, âFinding Freedom: Writings from Death Row,â that she wrote to him behind bars, and theyâve maintained a close friendship ever since.
Theme song SENTENCED, is complements of the band Stick Figure, from their album âSet In Stone.â
Have a question for Jarvis that youâd like to hear him answer on the podcast, please leave a message on our hotline: 201-903-3575 or, [email protected]
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