Pursuing Justice

Quentin Lewis has been incarcerated since he was 16. He's now 45 and an inmate at Wende Correctional Facility in upstate NY. He earned his G.E.D. and an Associates Degree in prison. He's been fighting a wrongful conviction since 2001. Students at Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva are assisting with his case. Quentin is certified as law clerk in the prison system.Read his article in the New York Times here.This podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.

Max Kenner is the founder and director of Bard Prison Initiative which he launched 25 years ago. At Bard College, he is Vice President for Institutional Initiatives and advisor to the President on Public Policy and College Affairs. Currently, he sits on the New York State Council on Community Justice. His awards are many: JFK Presidential Library's New Frontier Award and the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Education. B.P.I. has been featured on "60 Minutes", PBS News Hour, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and the docuseries "College Behind Bars" by Ken Burns which was shown on PBS. This 4 part documentary is the inspiring, deeply human story of men and women struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.Elias Beltran graduated from B.P.I. in 2017 having been incarcerated for 29 1/2 years. He earned a B.A. in Literature and the Humanities. He is now a PhD candidate at Cornell University. He has been a writing fellow with Bard's MicroCollege at the Brooklyn Public Library as well as at the Harlem Children's Zone and at Cornell for the English Language Support Organization (ELSO). He continues studying Mandarin Chinese. He is also a T.A. at Cornell, teaching a class on Crime and Punishment. He was awarded a prize given to Teaching Assistants at Cornell. In the Fall of 2025, he will be teaching at Albion Correctional Facility for Women, a prison in upstate New York. At the age of 16, Elias was sentenced to 30 years-to-life.BPI on 60 Minutes: https://bpi.bard.edu/news-stories/news/bpi-on-60-minutes/Max Kenner with Deidre Faughey: https://bpi.bard.edu/news-stories/news/max-kenner-with-deirdre-faughey/Plus, you can find a lot more about BPI here: https://bpi.bard.edu/news-stories/This podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.

Joan Dalton taught in the Portland, Oregon public schools and then became an administrator at Oregon's strictest juvenile correctional facility~MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. With experience and learning from experts in the field of the "Human Animal Bond", she founded an on-site program pairing boys and dogs to address the troubling behavior of both. In Second Chances, she shares the hurdles that led to positive outcomes for the boys and dogs in the program she calls : POOCH. The dogs found forever homes and the boys continued their education or found employment.To learn more about Joan Dalton and purchase Second Chances, visit https://joandalton.com/This podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.

Joan Dalton taught in the Portland, Oregon public schools and then became an administrator at Oregon's strictest juvenile correctional facility~MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. With experience and learning from experts in the field of the "Human Animal Bond", she founded an on-site program pairing boys and dogs to address the troubling behavior of both. In Second Chances, she shares the hurdles that led to positive outcomes for the boys and dogs in the program she calls : POOCH. The dogs found forever homes and the boys continued their education or found employment.To learn more about Joan Dalton and purchase Second Chances, visit https://joandalton.com/This podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.

Arrested in 1992 for a heinous crime he did not commit, Anthony Graves was sentenced to death at the age of 27 in Texas. He was incarcerated for 18 years. He was finally exonerated and released in 2010 and works tirelessly for change in our justice system. He created the Anthony Graves Foundation and is Director of Community Outreach for the Harris County Public Defender's Office in addition to operating a nonprofit called: Peer Navigation Project. His story was shown on "48 Hours" entitled: "Grave Injustice".Learn more about the Anthony's non-profit, Peer Navigator ProjectWatch 48 Hours' Grave InjusticeRead Pamela Colloff's articale in the Texas Monthly called Innocence LostThis podcast is proudly sponsored by the Innocence Project of Florida. Visit www.floridainnocence.org for more information.