Episode 133: Hope for the Innocent Part 1 w/Artis Whitehead

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We are taking the next two weeks about something that goes unnoticed in our society. There are THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of people incarcerated today for crimes they did not commit! This is why it is SO important to look at it. The criminal justice system is imperfect and doesn’t always get it right.

This is where organizations like the Tennessee Innocence Project come in. They are dedicated to exonerating the innocent in Tennessee.

We are gifted with two separate conversations with two friends. Today’s conversation is with Artis Whitehead. Artis is in prison as we speak but he is almost out! He was accused of robbing a B.B. King’s restaurant in Memphis in 2002 and he. Is. innocent.

In this conversation, Artis gives hope that is palpable and he is a true BLESSING. I am so thankful to know Artis and to introduce him to you!

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More on Artis’ story HERE: https://www.tninnocence.org/artis-whitehead

Learn more about the Tennessee Innocence Project HERE: https://www.tninnocence.org/

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0:00.0	What is going on human Human Hope Familia.
0:14.0	Welcome to episode 133 of the Human Hope
0:18.0	Podcast with your host.
0:19.0	Say it with me.
0:21.0	Carlos Enrique Enrique la Guzmann
0:23.3	Gussman-Chi Bourle for Short.
0:27.4	Today's episode is a really special one to me.
0:31.0	Took a lot of work to get, and I'm grateful for all parties involved that helped me
0:37.2	get this interview.
0:39.9	We are going to be talking the next two weeks about something that often goes unnoticed
0:46.5	in our society.
0:48.8	Not often, but, and I think for good reason, why would anybody want to look at the incarceration justice system
0:56.5	in America because you know if you're not in it the whole point is not to think about it because it's it's not great to think about it.
1:02.6	Because it's not great to look at.
1:05.9	There's a lot of very bad people that are in there.
1:08.9	And we just hope and assume that it's working correctly so that bad people stay off the streets and
1:18.0	stay out of our homes.
1:19.6	But unfortunately that's not the case. The system of justice in America, our criminal justice system, you know,
1:28.6	we don't have enough pot, we don't have a whole year of podcast episodes to go back and
1:32.3	unpack how it was created, the systems it was created under.
1:35.7	But what we can look at, what we do know is that there's thousands and thousands of innocent people incarcerated today.
1:46.0	Incarcerated for crimes, they had nothing to do with, didn't commit.
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