Ep 870 | Former Prisoner on the Dangers of Men in Women's Prisons | Guest: Heather Mason

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Today we're joined by Heather Mason, activist, survivor of fentanyl addiction, and founding member of caWsbar, an organization that works to preserve the rights and protections of women and girls. Heather tells her story of becoming addicted to fentanyl, selling drugs, and going to prison multiple times. She shares her difficult journey in Canadian federal prison, where she got routinely strip-searched and violated, and shares stories of men, many of whom were sexual predators, being placed with women and babies in women's facilities. We discuss her advocacy for single-sex prison spaces, and Heather explains how it was the Christians above anyone else who saw her as a human worthy of dignity while she was in prison. --- Timecodes:' (02:18) Heather's story (05:40) Heather's charges / getting arrested (21:20) Life in jail (26:20) Violated in jail / strip searching (28:20) Christians in prison (32:56) Men in women's prisons --- Today's Sponsors: Seven Weeks Coffee — get your organically farmed and pesticide-free coffee at sevenweekscoffee.com and let your coffee serve a greater purpose. Use the promo code 'ALLIE' to save 10% off your order. Range Leather — highest quality leather, age old techniques and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to rangeleather.com and use coupon code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your first order. ExpressVPN — have more anonymity online. Go to ExpressVPN.com/ALLIE and get three extra months FREE. EveryLife — the only premium baby brand that is unapologetically pro-life. EveryLife offers high-performing, supremely soft diapers and wipes that protect and celebrate every precious life. Head to EveryLife.com and use promo code ALLIE10 to get 10% of your first order today! --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.7	Spotify to find out more. Men are being transferred to women's prisons not just in the United
0:31.8	States, but also in Canada. This is putting the most vulnerable women at risk. An advocate
0:38.6	for these women is Heather Mason. She is a former fentanyl addict who spent time in
0:45.1	federal prison saw firsthand what this integration of men into women's prisons actually looks
0:51.7	like how it puts other women at risk. Since she has gotten out of prison, she has become
0:57.1	a founding member of Canadian women's sex based rights, which is an organization that
1:01.5	fights for the sex based rights of women, especially vulnerable women in prison. She's
1:06.3	going to share her heartbreaking story with us today and her experience in federal
1:11.0	prison and how that actually led to the advocacy work that she does today. God has used
1:17.0	her life in pretty incredible ways and this is someone that we need to share the arrows
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1:37.9	Heather, thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Before we get started with our
1:42.2	conversation, can you just tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do?
1:46.8	Yes, so my name is Heather Mason. I am from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. I was an addict for
1:54.5	many years. I've been incarcerated. When I got out, I became an advocate for federally
1:59.7	sentenced women, looking at their conditions, dealing with all sorts of the things that
2:07.8	you deal with inside prisons. It got me onto the topic of men who identify as women
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