Speaker 1: Dear Governor is a production of I Heart Media and
Speaker 1: three Months Media. If you are moved by Jarvis Masters
Speaker 1: and his thirty years struggle on San Quentin's death throw,
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Speaker 1: to California Governor Gavin Newsom, Dear Governor Newsom, Dear Mr
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom. This is an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1: Dear Governor Newsom. When Jarvis Masters first entered the walls
Speaker 1: of San Quentin State Prison four decades ago, he was,
Speaker 1: by his own admission, angry and bitter, filled with vitriol,
Speaker 1: pent up from a lifetime of abuse, neglect, and hopelessness.
Speaker 1: Were it not for the foresight and compassion of a
Speaker 1: singular woman at a very pivot dull time in his life,
Speaker 1: Jarvis admits he would have likely continued along the seemingly
Speaker 1: preordained pipeline cradle to prison to casket melody irma child,
Speaker 1: Chavez was so much more than a defense investigator on
Speaker 1: Jarvis's murder trial. He credits her support encouragement is vital
Speaker 1: to altering the trajectory of his life. In the forward
Speaker 1: of his book Finding Freedom, How Death Row Broke and
Speaker 1: opened My heart, he writes that Melody quote guided me
Speaker 1: through the many steps from extreme anger to the clarity
Speaker 1: of my Buddhist practice. She created a bridge for me
Speaker 1: to the outside world, bringing people into my life and
Speaker 1: giving passage to my voice. I recently spoke to Melody,
Speaker 1: who is now living in Germany, and I asked about
Speaker 1: her memory of Jarvis. When they first met back in
Speaker 1: the early eighties. He just sat there, glum and silent
Speaker 1: and glowering at me, and he had on this blue
Speaker 1: watch cap, you know, kind of a ski cap that
Speaker 1: they're allowed to have, and he pulled that way down
Speaker 1: almost over his eyes, and crossed his arms and slumped
Speaker 1: way back in his chair and stuck his legs out
Speaker 1: and crossed his ankles and had nothing to say. He
Speaker 1: just was a completely shut down and defended kid. Were
Speaker 1: you intimidated by him? No, he didn't scare me, but
Speaker 1: I I felt a lot of compassion for him. I thought,
Speaker 1: oh boy, you know, he's just not in touch with
Speaker 1: his feelings and he's he's very scared. I thought that
Speaker 1: he he's very strong, you know, fortress defenses he had
Speaker 1: going where because he was probably like most of my clients,
Speaker 1: really shocked to be facing the death penalty. Do you
Speaker 1: have to understand when I met Melody, I was something
Speaker 1: like that. Jarvis Masters recalls his first meat with Melody
Speaker 1: over thirty years ago. I went out there with my
Speaker 1: beanie and I did my little mug thing, and I
Speaker 1: didn't like her. You know, she was too small, she
Speaker 1: didn't know what the hell she was talking about, and
Speaker 1: you know I didn't have to listen to her. But
Speaker 1: she recognized my anger in a way where she connected
Speaker 1: it to masculinity and connecting with that child inside you.
Speaker 1: You know what it is you know a man and
Speaker 1: not be a follower, you know, and what it is
Speaker 1: to hold some guidance and direction to your life and
Speaker 1: not be scared of doing that. And she filled myself
Speaker 1: up with books like that. What was it about her
Speaker 1: that made you trust her? She was a lot tougher
Speaker 1: and what I thought she was. And she knew more
Speaker 1: about prisons than I thought she did. She had visited
Speaker 1: my mother. It I was, I was too angry to
Speaker 1: hear myself, and she starts shedding that away. You know,
Speaker 1: I try to run her away from me very many times.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think she was serious at thought
Speaker 1: it's all about the dollar, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit out here and try to be
Speaker 1: can't like you know, I'm getting something from her. You know.
Speaker 1: I was also scared about what she would write about
Speaker 1: my mother, So I hung out with her just to
Speaker 1: figure that out. Um. I mean, this is the first
Speaker 1: time I ever said that. But yeah, she was a
Speaker 1: very is she is today a very, very dear friend
Speaker 1: of mine. You know, I hope I can be that
Speaker 1: for her. What is it about Jervish this Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, you are basically credited with introducing him to meditation,
Speaker 1: which changed the entire trajectory of his life. To recommend
Speaker 1: meditation to all of your clients, or wasn't there something
Speaker 1: about Jarvis that made you think that it could really
Speaker 1: benefit him? Well, first of all, the ante the part
Speaker 1: about what was special about jervis I thought when once
Speaker 1: he once he sort of opened up, you know, I
Speaker 1: got gained his trust. One of the things I did
Speaker 1: is I just did go and see some of his family,
Speaker 1: and they liked me, and I reunited him with all
Speaker 1: his family he had nobody, had no visitors. And slowly,
Speaker 1: you know, I got him back in touch with his sisters,
Speaker 1: his brothers, and then finally his mom, you know, communicating
Speaker 1: writing back and forth, and that he began to really
Speaker 1: see the the benefits of having an investigative. You know,
Speaker 1: I had many young guys being just as reluctant, you know,
Speaker 1: just saying I don't need no desfinitely trial, you know,
Speaker 1: get me out of here kind of that, just get
Speaker 1: me out I don't want to do is also a
Speaker 1: big one. And Jarvis had this too, is don't go
Speaker 1: anywhere near my family, leave my family out of this.
Speaker 1: You know, he knew he felt he'd led his mom down,
Speaker 1: and he thought she probably didn't want anything to do
Speaker 1: with him, and he didn't want her also to be bothered.
Speaker 1: But eventually, you know, I got him think, well, look,
Speaker 1: you know, the government is paying me to write your
Speaker 1: life story. You might as well take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Let's write your life story. Why not? You know, this
Speaker 1: is just something we can do together while you're waiting
Speaker 1: for your trial. And I'll go and find out some
Speaker 1: stuff and I'll come back and let you know. And
Speaker 1: he got more and more involved in it. Can you
Speaker 1: tell me, like, what is the process of being a
Speaker 1: criminal investigator? Well, later on we called that social historians
Speaker 1: for capital cases, and that's a life history based on documents.
Speaker 1: First of all, the foundation of it is the record,
Speaker 1: medical record, school records, criminal records, everything you can find,
Speaker 1: so that really establishes the dates that things happen in
Speaker 1: many many names come forward with that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I got all of that for Jarvis, and then you
Speaker 1: weave into it interviews with the defend that himself. So
Speaker 1: Jarvis told much of his own story over time, and
Speaker 1: then adding in quotes and recollections from everyone who knew him,
Speaker 1: so neighbors and relatives and more distant relatives and the
Speaker 1: maybe the pastor or any employer. Uh and in Jarvis's case,
Speaker 1: the foster parents and the juvenile hall, people in the
Speaker 1: juvenile prison, people who played a big role in his life. So,
Speaker 1: you know, he was vera young when I met him,
Speaker 1: he was twenty two. I think I was also pretty young.
Speaker 1: I was about forty seven. Maybe I recognized how first
Speaker 1: of all, he's really smart and not everyone is right.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't have the kind of brain injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, that so many of my clients had with
Speaker 1: fetal alcohol issues or having been a born on drugs,
Speaker 1: or having been hit and beaten so badly to have
Speaker 1: like little brain injuries. He just had been spared all that,
Speaker 1: thank God. And it was a miracle because his mom,
Speaker 1: of course, was on drugs and such. But he is well,
Speaker 1: and so he has this foundation that we all need,
Speaker 1: which is to have a functioning brain. And then he
Speaker 1: has and the whole family has sort of what the
Speaker 1: Irish called the gift of the gab. You know, he
Speaker 1: just was so articulate, and it's funny and talkative and
Speaker 1: and so many people are not, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've interviewed thousands of people in an out of prison,
Speaker 1: and so many it's like pulling teeth. You know that yourself,
Speaker 1: you'll ask something and then there you'll get mum mumble mumble,
Speaker 1: looked down at the floor, you know. Or teenagers if
Speaker 1: you've raised any of them, that they go through that
Speaker 1: phase too. Uh. I can't tell get anybody to say anything,
Speaker 1: But once he got started, he would He just would
Speaker 1: tell stories and and entertain you. And I thought that
Speaker 1: was really a lovely characteristic and I enjoyed my time
Speaker 1: with him always, I think everybody does, you know, you
Speaker 1: look forward to it. And and also he was the
Speaker 1: one who insisted that we'd be friends. He had had
Speaker 1: some team social workers and juvenile counselors and this and that,
Speaker 1: and he said, I don't need that. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're coming here to be my social worker and try
Speaker 1: to help me and all this, I don't want anything
Speaker 1: to do with you. I need a pal. I need
Speaker 1: an actual friend. Need you to tell me some of
Speaker 1: your life and what you're going through. Why would this
Speaker 1: be a one way street. I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: And I thought, okay, well why not. I guess I
Speaker 1: could open up more with him. And then as far
Speaker 1: as meditation, we learned that together. I was not a
Speaker 1: Buddhist I when I met him, I hadn't meditated ever.
Speaker 1: And I went to a course to learn meditate and
Speaker 1: I thought this is great, hard, very difficult to do.
Speaker 1: And I came up to see Jarvis and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm learning how to meditate. You want to
Speaker 1: do you want to do it? You want to try to?
Speaker 1: And he was like sure, And this was a joke
Speaker 1: that I always tell it. I said, well, but this
Speaker 1: is Buddhist, you know, like, do you want to me
Speaker 1: to find some other sort of practice like from Africa
Speaker 1: or something. Do you want something more like culturally? That's
Speaker 1: not any looks at me, it goes, well, you're not Asian,
Speaker 1: that's true. Good point. So we don't learned it in
Speaker 1: the cell there. You know, we had contact visits prior
Speaker 1: to the trial for that, and that was several years
Speaker 1: you know, to prepare. So anyway, we we did it together.
Speaker 1: We really undertook this whole journey to calm down and
Speaker 1: pay attention to what is happening with us together. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very a very rich experience, and of course he
Speaker 1: had it much harder than a prison is no place
Speaker 1: to meditate, and there's also no place to open yourself
Speaker 1: up to your inner self, you know, to start to
Speaker 1: feel your emotions. You can't afford it in there. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not a safe environment. It's not even safe to
Speaker 1: close your eyes. It's not safe to be quiet or
Speaker 1: you know, or to cry with be the last thing
Speaker 1: and he very bravely, very strongly, I thought, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: going to benefit of this, and I needed to get
Speaker 1: through the experience of facing his death bathing. It definitely
Speaker 1: trials a lout like you know, you like a cancer,
Speaker 1: diactosis or something. You many people think, wow, you know
Speaker 1: this is it? What is why am I alive? And
Speaker 1: what does my life mean? And he did? He really
Speaker 1: approached it that way. Up next, how Jarvis's meditation practice
Speaker 1: evolved in Buddhism became an energizing force in his life.
Speaker 1: The practice of meditation could have led Jarvis masters down
Speaker 1: any number of paths. I asked friend and defense investigator
Speaker 1: Melody irma child, how and why Jarvis was drawn to Budism.
Speaker 1: I brought him maybe or someone else sent him a
Speaker 1: magazine that had Buddhist stuff in it. And he saw
Speaker 1: an ad for free books from this group in northern
Speaker 1: California that had their teacher, Kasan Toku, who became his teacher.
Speaker 1: He wrote to them himself, I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that, and he said, send me the books. I'm
Speaker 1: on death row. And he had a whole correspondence going
Speaker 1: with them. What did not involve me? And so he
Speaker 1: sought out studying Buddhism, you know, really becoming a Buddhist scholar,
Speaker 1: sort of reading uh and learning the history of it
Speaker 1: and such more than than I did. He just went
Speaker 1: like a duck into water or something. What would you say?
Speaker 1: You know, he really spoke to him, and he pursued
Speaker 1: it on his own. And you can tell that in
Speaker 1: David Scheff's book how deeply he went into it and
Speaker 1: how but he sought out teachers first charge, saying tookles,
Speaker 1: then Pamma. I remember one day I had a visit
Speaker 1: with him, which was on the phone. Then after the
Speaker 1: trial he was put in solitary and for years I
Speaker 1: visited him, talking to him on the phone behind glass
Speaker 1: syd a glass window, and I visited him a lot.
Speaker 1: One time, the guy at the gate said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to redo our lists of all the visits.
Speaker 1: He said, I'll just give you a copy of years.
Speaker 1: And it was a hundred and ten visits at that
Speaker 1: point at some point, you know, over years, over a
Speaker 1: few years. So we're talking and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm corresponding with this little lady. She's so nice
Speaker 1: and she lives would in the woods someplace. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: And he said, and her name is Pinma, something like Pina. Oh.
Speaker 1: And I said, wait a minute, Jervis are you talking
Speaker 1: about Pemma Children. Yeah, that's her name. She was way
Speaker 1: on in the woods. And I said, Josh, she is
Speaker 1: one of the most well known Buddhist teachers there is.
Speaker 1: You know, this is amazing, and and he said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I just thought, you know, she
Speaker 1: was like to write. May be she had written him
Speaker 1: because of his book. You credit Buddhism for Jervis's transformation.
Speaker 1: I think he would say yes. So I would say yes,
Speaker 1: Buddhism and the way it opened him up to the
Speaker 1: world and to kindness and to his own you know,
Speaker 1: loving heart, which then drew in all these other people's Buddhism,
Speaker 1: and also the support of dezens and hundreds of people
Speaker 1: all around that have carried him forward to these Such
Speaker 1: a wonderful person who so many people really depend on
Speaker 1: his friendship. He's a really good friend too many people.
Speaker 1: ID just has to be one of the most famous
Speaker 1: person right now on denth Bro you know, as far
Speaker 1: as having followers and having an international presence. U his
Speaker 1: book was translated all around in Europe. And yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of him. He's got his own two books. Amazing.
Speaker 1: And then and then David Cheff's book now, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: David Cheff's book is so great, and you you are
Speaker 1: the first person even mentioned in that book. You are featured,
Speaker 1: featured so prominently. I'm I'm so grateful and honored in
Speaker 1: sort of odd by the way Jarvis has given me credit.
Speaker 1: It was saying, you know, been grateful to me and
Speaker 1: talked about me, and also all of the other people,
Speaker 1: you know, Pamma and Payma children, and also Susan Moon
Speaker 1: who published him first in Buddhist publication up Turning Wheel.
Speaker 1: And you know, I just didn't forget the people who
Speaker 1: have helped to him, and I just think that's so nice,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the first is of kind of
Speaker 1: I was kind of embarrassed to be featured that way,
Speaker 1: but that also Dan, I realized, you know, this really
Speaker 1: is a lovely honor for me. I'm retired now and
Speaker 1: an old kind of an old lady, and to feel
Speaker 1: that work I did have been recognized, and it's more
Speaker 1: like a symbol of all the many cases I have
Speaker 1: thirty five people who are living on death or who
Speaker 1: were my clients, and then you know, way way more
Speaker 1: than that who did not get death and or even
Speaker 1: were acquitted or you know, got terms of years and
Speaker 1: such and and some doing life without parole. You are
Speaker 1: also the impetus for Jarvis to start writing. From what
Speaker 1: I understand as well, you too would sit together and write.
Speaker 1: That's true. I always thought jarvis use of language was
Speaker 1: just great, so he didn't have a formal education for
Speaker 1: stuff like punctuation or even spelling. I thought that it
Speaker 1: would be great if he could write down the way
Speaker 1: he talked uh and write down his stories. So I
Speaker 1: started doing these little exercises with him because he had
Speaker 1: been talking to me all about noticing the child abuse.
Speaker 1: We talked all about child abuse, what it is, and
Speaker 1: how it happened to him, and the effects of that.
Speaker 1: Most prisoners, many, many, you know, younger people think, well,
Speaker 1: I was I was a bad boy, and my parents
Speaker 1: disciplined me. You know, my father beat me and and
Speaker 1: I deserved it, you know, that's just how it is.
Speaker 1: And I would I would also beat my kids. And
Speaker 1: I helped Jovis to see that that you could raise
Speaker 1: kids without beating them. And it leaves these terrible wounds,
Speaker 1: psychic wounds, emotional wounds, and even on your bodies and body.
Speaker 1: And he told me about the scars you saw in
Speaker 1: the prison Yard. All of that we sort of developed together,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, why don't you just write the
Speaker 1: whole thing down? And that went to at least twelve publications.
Speaker 1: It was anthologized, and then finally made its way into
Speaker 1: Finding Freedom. So it's all his own talent, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he does have a unique writer's voice. He has an
Speaker 1: actual voice, and it's unique, and I think it's so great.
Speaker 1: I really like his writing. And no, we would we
Speaker 1: would go do all these little things when he was
Speaker 1: behind glass. We would have both have paper and he
Speaker 1: would have the inside of a a ballpoint pen, you know,
Speaker 1: just the inside because they take away the metal outside
Speaker 1: or hard plastic outside. And we would say, well today,
Speaker 1: let's write about the ball game, or let's write about rain,
Speaker 1: or let's write about sleep or whatever. So we we
Speaker 1: both developed as writers together. I would say, then would
Speaker 1: you read those like you give yourself tendent? Yeah? Then
Speaker 1: read them aloud? Yeah, okay. We would be let's go
Speaker 1: so many minutes and I'd look at my watch five
Speaker 1: minutes and then and then read them to each other.
Speaker 1: Was he ever, because he did not have the education
Speaker 1: that you had, was to be finned that decide intimidating
Speaker 1: at all. I never saw that. He just goes ahead.
Speaker 1: See that's another really great quality he has is that
Speaker 1: he doesn't he knows, he doesn't have a mastery of
Speaker 1: or didn't these of course he's learning, learned all these
Speaker 1: twenty years punctuation or spelling every word. But he doesn't stop,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't get it, gets intimidated or ashamed. Nothing.
Speaker 1: He just goes ahead and puts it all onto paper
Speaker 1: that all that stuff could be fixed later. Will you
Speaker 1: be participating in any way, shape or form in the
Speaker 1: federal appeal? Not that I've been contacted, I know, I
Speaker 1: really I'm retired party. I feel like I've been healing
Speaker 1: myself the last five years or so with nature. Kind
Speaker 1: of enough murderer, Enough with murder, enough with prisons. You know.
Speaker 1: I do go to see Jarvis, and when we're in California,
Speaker 1: we go to see Chad Rhodes also, And I've been
Speaker 1: in touch with him all the time, all the years
Speaker 1: he's now been there over twenty years, mostly in the
Speaker 1: Pelican Bay Shoe and now in a better prison. And
Speaker 1: so I just have the two Jarvis and Chad Road
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, all right, I'll just stick with
Speaker 1: you guys until I'm not alive anymore, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life
Speaker 1: with them, and that it's very helpful to me, making
Speaker 1: my life more meaningful. I wouldn't be the person I
Speaker 1: am without no ide that's a fact, sound story. So
Speaker 1: I think let's call and your telephone number will be
Speaker 1: monitored and recorded. She came into my life at the
Speaker 1: most angerious point I've ever been, and slowly she was
Speaker 1: the person who said, you know, you don't need to
Speaker 1: be that to be you, and she found that a
Speaker 1: lot of books to support that, you know, and she
Speaker 1: hung out with me. She stayed with me while I
Speaker 1: went through that process. So you know, you can never
Speaker 1: forget something like that, you know, Yeah, I certainly won't.
Speaker 1: Was she like a mother to you? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not not at all. She was more like a a
Speaker 1: teacher who not let you leave the classroom until you
Speaker 1: did your homework. That kind of person, you know, Yes,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's how that's how who she became. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of person she's always been to me. Up next,
Speaker 1: Jervis's own words on Melody, his introduction to Buddhism and
Speaker 1: how his fraught journey to self acceptance led him down
Speaker 1: the Buddhist path after Dion Graham, who voiced the audio
Speaker 1: book Finding Freedom, How Death Row Broke and opened my
Speaker 1: heart on how Jarvis managed to find his path in
Speaker 1: the darkness of San Quentin's death Row. For a long time,
Speaker 1: I've been my own stranger, but everything I went through
Speaker 1: and learning how to accept myself brought me to the
Speaker 1: doorsteps of Dharma, the Buddhist path. During my death penalty trial, Melody,
Speaker 1: a private investigator working on my case, send me books
Speaker 1: on how to meditate, how to deal with pain and suffering,
Speaker 1: how to keep my mind at rest. She had broken
Speaker 1: her ankle and was trying to keep still. She and
Speaker 1: I were both trying this meditation gig, and like me,
Speaker 1: she was confronting a lot of things in her past.
Speaker 1: She was also writing and encouraged me to do so
Speaker 1: as well. I began to get up early to try
Speaker 1: to calm my mind so I wouldn't panic. It was
Speaker 1: as if my whole life was being displayed on a
Speaker 1: screen during the death penalty case. Things I never realized
Speaker 1: about myself in my life were introduced to me and
Speaker 1: the jury at the same time questions I never asked
Speaker 1: my mother, like how long she'd been abused on the street,
Speaker 1: and added, we're being asked now. Through meditation, I learned
Speaker 1: to slow down and take a few deep breaths, to
Speaker 1: take everything in, not to run from the pain, but
Speaker 1: to sit with it, confronted, give it the companion it
Speaker 1: had never had. I became committed to my meditation practice.
Speaker 1: While I was in the holding booth during the jury's
Speaker 1: deliberation on whether I should get life without parole or
Speaker 1: the death penalty, I started leafing through a Buddhist journal
Speaker 1: Melody had left there. In it was an article called
Speaker 1: Life in Relation to Death by a Tibetan Buddhist lama
Speaker 1: Choga Tokul Rimpachey. I thought, wow, this is right up
Speaker 1: my alley. I sent a letter to the address in
Speaker 1: the journal and got a reply from a woman named Lisa,
Speaker 1: one of Rimpa Chase close students, with a copy of
Speaker 1: his booklet Life in Relation to Death. At the time,
Speaker 1: I got into some kind of trouble and was in
Speaker 1: isolated confinement, stripped down to a pair of shorts and
Speaker 1: a T shirt with only two blankets. In her letter,
Speaker 1: Lisa asked if I needed help. I always needed help.
Speaker 1: I still need help, and because the help she offered,
Speaker 1: we began corresponding. Then she began to visit me and
Speaker 1: eventually brought Rimpachey to San Quentin. When I first saw
Speaker 1: Rimpa Check through the glass in the small visiting room booth,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh ship, I'm in trouble. Now I'm messing
Speaker 1: around with a real lama. He's from Tibet. Check him
Speaker 1: out that everything he's got on is blessed. I figured
Speaker 1: there were two ways I could introduce myself. I could
Speaker 1: greet him in an ordinary way, or I could bow.
Speaker 1: I bowed, then he bowed. Why do I think he
Speaker 1: wouldn't He's been bowing all his life. I thought, I've
Speaker 1: been reading about llamas for the last three years, and
Speaker 1: now I have a real one in front of me.
Speaker 1: I knew that all I could do was tell him
Speaker 1: exactly what I think. If I lied or shot away
Speaker 1: from him, he'd know it. I fell in love with
Speaker 1: him for the same reasons everybody else does. His life
Speaker 1: history was my key. He had been a rebellious kid.
Speaker 1: He wasn't born with a silver spoon. He was a
Speaker 1: feisty guy who would discipline me when I needed it.
Speaker 1: He knew what he was talking about and would say
Speaker 1: it in a way that I'd get it. He had
Speaker 1: a certain shrewdness, compassionate ferociousness. He was a lama who
Speaker 1: ate beef, jerky, got upset, and had jewels of compassion
Speaker 1: in him. The only thing he didn't do was say
Speaker 1: all this to me. I just felt it. I thought,
Speaker 1: here's a guy who can take me out of prison
Speaker 1: even as I remain here. He won't dress me in
Speaker 1: Buddhist garb, but except me as I am, I knew
Speaker 1: he was a tough character. Next week, how, with the
Speaker 1: help of a Buddhist chaplain, Jarvis managed to implement Buddhist
Speaker 1: services to shed a little light into the Row. The
Speaker 1: audiobook of Finding Freedom, How Death Row Broke and Opened
Speaker 1: My Heart by Jarvis j Masters can be found at
Speaker 1: Shambala dot com or Audible. We'll link to both sites
Speaker 1: in our show notes. This episode was written and produced
Speaker 1: by Donna Fazzari and myself Cornicole. Our theme song sentenced
Speaker 1: is compliments of the band Stick Figure from their album
Speaker 1: Set in Stone. Stu Sternbach composed the original music. Nate
Speaker 1: Dufort did the sound design. For more information on Jarvis
Speaker 1: and to find out how you can follow his case
Speaker 1: and support his cause, please visit free Jarvis dot org.
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