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

Calling Death Row

Aug 19th, 2021 34m 34s

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, j

Black & Buddhist

Aug 12th, 2021 40m 34s

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 experi

The Fall of the Death Penalty

Aug 5th, 2021 34m 15s

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

The Hellhole

Jul 29th, 2021 30m 46s

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

Searching For Humanity

Jul 22nd, 2021 34m 20s

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 explai

Buddhist Chaplain on Death Row

Jul 15th, 2021 37m 6s

There is an adage made popular in 1954 by President Eisenhower, that there are “no atheists in a fox hole.” 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

Lifelong Friends on Death Row

Jul 8th, 2021 28m 28s

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 foresig

Finding Light in the Dark

Jul 1st, 2021 22m 58s

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. If y

Buddhist on Death Row

Jun 24th, 2021 26m 19s

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 David’s biography, His Holiness, The Dal

Last Best Chance

Jun 17th, 2021 25m 15s

He’s 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

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Season 2 Trailer

Jun 10th, 2021 2m 57s

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 expe

Sentenced to Death, Again

Jun 25th, 2020 31m 36s

This verdict is in. And despite all of the compelling new evidence that bolsters Jarvis’s innocence, the California Supreme Court chose confirm his death sentence. You will hear Jarvis’s reaction to the courts decision, and what this means for

Sentenced to Death

Jun 18th, 2020 26m 6s

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, fo

Bloody Murder

Jun 11th, 2020 21m 52s

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 Jarvis’s recollections of that fated night, along with the memories of the Head Warden who was

The Death Penalty, an Insider’s POV

Jun 5th, 2020 32m 27s

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 su

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Bonus Episode - #PodcastBlackOut ~ On the loss of George Floyd

Jun 4th, 2020 23m 57s

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

Righteous Anger

May 28th, 2020 23m 33s

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 gr

Cradle to Prison

May 21st, 2020 33m 10s

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 “cradle to prison p

A Long Time Waiting

May 14th, 2020 25m 54s

Host, Corny Koehl, attends the oral arguments for Jarvis Master’s 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

Jarvis and the Death Penalty

May 7th, 2020 24m 49s

The United States is the only western nation that continues to make a practice of executing its own citizens. Of late, the death penalty and the prevalence of wrongful convictions have been under the white-hot light spotlight in everything from

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Introducing Dear Governor

Apr 28th, 2020 3m 19s

In issuing his moratorium on capital punishment in California, Governor Gavin Newsom went on record saying he believes there are innocent people on Death Row. “Dear Governor” invites the listener to get to know Jarvis Jay Masters, a condemned p