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David Sheff Follows the Buddhist Journey of a San Quentin Inmate in Latest Book

Like a lot of people with newfound interest in Buddhist meditation, Jarvis Jay Masters struggled at first to sit still and quiet his mind.

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Jessica Zack
2020
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Another Birthday on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters has spent almost 30 years on death row for a crime many think he did not commit. Rebecca Solnit celebrated his 56th birthday with Masters as he seeks freedom through meditation until the day his conviction is overturned.

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Rebecca Solnit
2018
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Jarvis Masters Writes from Death Row in San Quentin as COVID-19 Spreads Unchecked

Jarvis Jay Masters wrote this firsthand account of the pandemic ripping through San Quentin prison, where in early June the California authorities, with either stunning idiocy or reckless disregard for human life or some combination thereof, brought infected prisoners from elsewhere in the prison...

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Jarvis Masters
2020
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Innocence Lost

In September 2019, Jarvis Jay Masters exhausted his final state appeal. The Buddhist author and death-row inmate at San Quentin had a hearing before the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles and did not prevail in getting the California appeals court to re-examine his case.

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Tom Gogola
2019
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