Felony Friday Ep. 027 - Amshula Jayaram is Fighting for Criminal Justice Reform With the Innocence Project

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🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On today’s episode of Felony Friday Amshula Jayaram joins host John Odermatt to discuss criminal justice reform and exoneration of innocent prisoners. Amshula is a state policy advocate for the Innocence Project. She leads state-level campaigns to enact policies and laws that benefit wrongfully convicted individuals, improve public safety and prevent future injustices. Amshula has prior experience working in the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU she built policy campaigns to pass legislation on a variety of national security, human rights and criminal justice issues. Sh [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:43.2	Welcome to Phyllity Friday, a presentation of the Lions of Liberty podcast. Here is your host, John Otermat. Welcome, felons friends and freedom lovers. It is that wonderful time of the week again.
0:50.3	Yes, it is time for another episode of Felony Friday, here on the Lions of Liberty podcast.
0:58.0	My guest today works for an organization that is fighting on the front lines to bring justice
1:03.6	to people who have been wronged by our broken criminal justice system.
1:08.2	Now, I will introduce my guest momentarily, but first, I want to let you guys
1:12.0	know about two things. First is where to find the show notes for today's show. This is episode
1:17.1	number 27, a felony Friday. So that means you can find these show notes with links to everything
1:22.6	that we're going to talk about today at Lions of Liberty.com slash fF27. And second, I want to let you guys know where I got
1:32.5	the idea for today's episode. I actually got the idea for today's show based on discussions
1:37.6	in our private Facebook group, the Lions of Liberty Forum. There's always great discussions going
1:43.1	on there about politics, criminal justice reform, all sorts of other topics. There's always great discussions going on there about politics,
1:44.5	criminal justice reform, all sorts of other topics. Just type Lions of Liberty Forum in the Facebook
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