Landis Reynolds was a child, a teenager, when the State unfairly sentenced him to a slow death sentence. Sentencing children to die in prisons across the country made the United States an outlier in the civilized world. Virtually no other Nation in the world forecloses children to die in prison. Thankfully the judicial system has finally caught up to the undisputable science that children brains are not fully formed. Children are incapable of comprehending impacts on victims, potential criminal consequences, and even how their actions may affect others including their own family members. Most reasonable minded people would admit to the incontrovertible truth that children are less culpable. Natural law testifies to such an unassailable fact. Yet legislators, judges, prosecutors, and many others ignore the truth and continue to sentence children harshly. For instance, brain scan imagery has proven that the frontal lobe does not form the synapse connections required for fully matured thinking until after age twenty-five years old. So it is not until one is twenty-six years old that one should be held fully culpable under the law. Nevertheless many States, including Washington, have glossed over that scientific fact. Only extending youthfulness to those close to the archaic age of eighteen. That ancient benchmark was arbitrary. Eighteen years old is not some magical age when minds are mature enough to handle scenarios better. Brain imagery has proven that a falsity. The proper age is twenty-six years old. Therefore Landis wrote a book detailing a new way forward. He has embarked on a mission to educate. To break stereotypes. And refocus the National policy conversations away from demagoguery and towards science based approaches. Landis shares his compelling stories of prison life, rehabilitation, and redemption. While also dreaming for mercy, forgiveness, and freedom. Landis profound episode is one you will not soon forget. Listen to the hidden jewel wrongly warehoused in prison. Perhaps afterwards you will understand how very evil and corrupt the criminal justice system is today.

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***In this episode, at around 35 minutes 50 seconds, we had an uninvited visitor on the podcast. You can hear an unusual, unexplained whisper of a voice at the same time Linda is speaking. We have been completely baffled, and someone terrified by it. Linda cannot make out what it says, but everyone else has come up with the same word, and it’s not a very nice one***

Justina Madenska grew up on the Law Enforcement side of the Crime War. Her Father, a Judge, surrounded Justina with Bailiffs, Prosecutors, Police and Jail Officers, and other Judges. Justina remembers spending nights in the County Jail carelessly doing her school homework while prisoners were suffering hopelessly in locked cages. Growing up in the Crime Wars hard on crime ideologies Justina soon followed her Fathers footsteps into the law profession. There was no doubt that upon completion of law school and passing the BAR exam Justina would become a Prosecuting Attorney. Justina did not disappoint. She promptly became a Deputy Prosecutor. Thriving in the field of prosecuting troubled Americans. But one case changed everything. A death penalty case. Justina obtained the conviction which condemned the man to death. The experience however awakened Justina to the truth that many on the other side of the government have known for a long time. That the criminal justice system is supremely unfair. Actual death penalties and slow death sentences of incarceration were being passed out like candy to the most disadvantaged in our communities (i.e. those impoverished, minorities, and the mentally ill). Unsophisticated juries were convicting Americans solely because a Prosecutor told them too. Even when the evidence was lacking. Then Judges handed down sentences that effectively ended their lives. Piping those troubled peoples into a inhumane exploitative prison system. The systemic forced slavery, the guard brutality and oppression, the prison administration corruption, the warehousing, the extreme prisoner on prisoner violence created by artificial scarcities, and the lack of meaningful treatment and educational opportunities, all culminating into wasted lives of misery. After deep introspection Justina felt compelled to join the key civil rights struggle of our generation. Advocating for the voiceless. Fighting for a criminal justice system that seeks to rehabilitate and restore fellow Americans rather than destroy them. The insights and experiences Justina shares are invaluable. Anyone that wants to understand the massive injustices occurring across the Country must pay attention. She shares effective ways to advocate for the overdue reforms we all need to be demanding.

The reality show LOVE AND PRISON ACTIVISM crowdfunder is up and live at https://gofund.me/060cf2e4 . We desperately need help to raise funds! To accomplish the dream of humanizing our incarcerated people and their loved ones so that systemic reform can happen is possible if we unite. Please promote and donate to your Countrys criminal justice system reform movement TODAY! We need you!

Co-host Daniel J. Simms Petition for Resentencing is still pending before Leesa Manion at the King County Prosecutors Office. Due to HB 6164 Prosecutors have the discretion to Resentence rehabilitated citizens. Daniel has exhibited extraordinary rehabilitation. He is quite literally a productive contributing member of society even from behind prison walls. Almost twenty years of incarceration for a crime where no one was severely hurt is excessive. The ends of justice would best be served if Daniel was released and reunited with his community. If you want to support or advocate for Daniels release we GREATLY need your help! Please reach out to us or contact Leesa Manions King County Prosecutors Office directly.

In this explosive episode we interview Cadmus Publishing owner, Ken Passaro, as he shares his remarkable story and how he ended up in the publishing business. A product of a broken home, fatherless, and struggling with traumas Ken found himself piped into prison just like millions of other Americans. While in prison his labor was exploited and wages stolen, treatment and educational options were practically nonexistent, he was surrounded by violence and guard brutality, and he was released in severe poverty. Which is essentially the story of millions of fellow troubled Americans. Unlike masses of other released prisoners Ken self-rehabilitated himself. Striving arduously to discover true peace, productivity, and happiness despite mass incarceration's deep adverse impact on his life. Finding his Higher Power was the key to his redemption. Now he is dedicated to freeing the voices of prisoner authors. Unleashing the untapped potential of our troubled people so that their words can break stereotypes and disrupt the evil mass incarceration system.

Co-host, Daniel J. Simms, Petition for Resentencing filed with Leesa Manion, the King County Prosecutor, is still pending. Daniel has been incarcerated since February 2006 for a botched drug deal (See: State of Washington v. Daniel J. Simms). No one was severely hurt. No one was murdered. No one was sexually assaulted. Yet Daniel is being murdered by the State with an egregiously long sentence. Daniel's rehabilitation is beyond extraordinary, with three published books, a podcast, blog, and countless certificates including as a Certified Paralegal, the ends of justice would be best served mercifully freeing him. That is why Daniel direly needs advocates and supporters to lobby Leesa Manion's Office for Resentencing. Please contact DefundDOC.net to help, or contact the King County Prosecutor's Office directly at www.KingCountyProsecutorOffice.gov/LeesaManion. Thank you.