Nov 29 2023 14 mins
In this episode, Here's A Thought reaches a milestone that a lot of podcasts never achieve — and that is entirely thanks to listeners like you. So I'm enormously appreciative.
I'm also thinking deeply -- which is distinct, I hope, from overthinking — about the interview I did for another podcast I'm involved in, and how it was driven home to me by the recent news about Derek Chauvin — the former Minneapolis cop who was sentenced to 22 1/2 years for killing George Floyd in 2020 — being stabbed in prison.
Whatever offense a convict has committed, violence, sexual assault, and dehumanizing conditions are not supposed to be part of the punishment.
And the hard truth is that not everyone who is languishing in prison even belongs there.
It's a reality that most of us are insulated from confronting — but after my interview with Dr. Greg Hampikian, co-founder of the Idaho Innocence Project, for an episode of the Crow's Feet: Life As We Age podcast (release date January 24, 2024), I've lost my insulation.
I don't think that's a bad thing.
Here's A Thought will be taking a hiatus after this episode -- so check out any of the previous ones you may have missed and please join me in the meantime at:
Crow's Feet: Life As We Age -- on all major podcast platforms.
Links for today's episodes:
Dr. Greg Hampikian
Idaho Innocence Project
Amanda Knox
Bureau of Justice Statistics, report cited on sexual victimization in prisons
New York Times, November 27, 2023: "The Stabbing of Derek Chauvin: What We Know
Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, Just Detention International
Prison Policy Initiative
Sharia Law and punishment
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