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🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | And more you see in the system, the more you understand how broken it is and how rigged this system is, |
0:09.2 | and the more outrage she gets, and you know I'm somebody who would much rather turn my anger into action, |
0:15.3 | than just sit around and be met. |
0:30.0 | Hi and welcome back. I'm so excited for you to meet our guests this week. Jessica Jackson's |
0:36.9 | quest for justice began in a Georgia courtroom. The high school dropout held her two-month-old daughter |
0:42.7 | and watched helplessly as her husband was sentenced to six years in prison. At that moment, |
0:48.4 | she decided to turn her shock into a crusade to change the justice system literally. |
0:53.8 | As a single mother, she graduated college and then law school. Today, she is leading the |
0:59.2 | bipartisan movement to end excessive incarceration. Jessica's specialty is bringing political |
1:05.1 | rivals together to pass bills considered impossible, I love that. As the bill's main advocate, she led the |
1:11.4 | drive to pass 2018's first step after the New York Times called the law the most substantial |
1:18.0 | justice reform in a generation. It has already helped free more than 7,000 people. While leading her |
1:25.9 | national initiative, cut 50, Jessica helped ban the shackling of jail pregnant women in 14 states. |
1:32.7 | Her dignity for incarcerated women campaign enlisted formerly incarcerated women and dozens of |
1:38.8 | celebrities to deepen the focus on women's issues. At the helm of cut 50, Jessica built the biggest |
1:44.7 | national grassroots network for bipartisan reform, cut 50's empathy network. She also produced the |
1:50.9 | first ever bipartisan criminal justice summit, attracting leaders as diverse as Newt Gingrich |
1:56.8 | and then attorney General Eric Holder. Jessica has led not only on the national level, but also |
2:02.7 | served as the youngest city council member and mayor of Mill Valley, California. Today, she now |
2:08.0 | helps lead reform alliance and organization where she's continuing her work to end mass incarceration |
2:14.6 | and mass supervision. Jessica, thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me on. |
2:20.0 | My gosh, your background is crazy. I want to go back to so much of what I talk about, what I believe in, |
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