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Freedom & incarceration

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Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart

There are many forms of liberation—some that exist at the mercy of circumstance and others that can never be taken away.

Jarvis Jay Masters, Pema Chödrön (foreword)

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Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row

Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard.

Jarvis Jay Masters

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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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That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters has taken an extraordinary journey of faith. Strangely enough, his moment of enlightenment came behind the bars of San Quentin's death row.

Jarvis Jay Masters

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Angela Y. Davis (Authors), Cornel West (Preface)

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Freedom in Prison: Grace Is Here, Too

We can each discover what lives freely, both inside and outside. We can recognize what is at peace, regardless of particular circumstances. We can find ourselves in all.

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Shakespeare Behind Bars

Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.

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