Join hosts Linda and Daniel Simms with special guests Jessica San Luis and Phillip A. Jones for a new episode of the podcast, "DefundDOC." This episode takes a deep dive into the serious issues with Securus Technologies, a communication provider for incarcerated individuals.

Guest Jessica San Luis breaks down the contract between Securus and the Washington State Department of Corrections (WA DOC), highlighting how the department profits from the service while families and inmates suffer from frequent outages. The discussion also touches on the pervasive service failures and the monopoly Securus holds over inmate communication services.

Could co-host Daniel J. Simms come home soon? After twenty years of wrongful incarceration and fourteen years left on his slow death sentence Daniel is closer than ever to going home. Renown attorney, Arian Noma, from the greatly accomplished legal aid nonprofit, The Way to Justice, has taken Daniel's case! Arian joins us to share his remarkable path to law school. Becoming the foremost expert in both adult and juvenile criminal law. He reveals how close he came to becoming a criminal Defendant himself due to gun possession. The knowledge and wisdom Arian shares about the failures of the criminal justice system is profound. The passion he has for all troubled Americans is obvious and genuine. Listen as Arian details the path forward.

Now comes the long hours and hard work to put together a clemency/resentencing packet that meets guidelines and regulations. Arian will have two opportunities to present the case for Daniel's early release. The first opportunity will be through a Petition for Resentencing to the King County Prosecutor Lisa Manion. The second is through a Clemency Petition to the State of Washington Governor Bob Ferguson. Neither petition is going to be easy. Therefore all the thoughts, prayers, and support you provide is greatly appreciated.

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A near death experience propelled Thomas "Tom" Harvey to drop everything and become a Christian missionary. Travelling across the globe to bring the good news of Christ to others. Spending an eye opening ten years in Communist China. Then returning to America and donating his time to many worthy causes. Tom explains that in elementary school he was given another child's name and address in a neighboring town. He was directed to write them. Which he did frequently. But at the end of the school year he met his pen pal friend. This experience instilled a deep joy for letter writing that withstood all these years. Culminating in a solid pen pal friendship with our co-host Daniel. Tom has developed and fostered many pen pal friendships like this. Demonstrating how incredibly rewarding it can be to look past the stigmas and prejudices that prisoners endure to see the actual humans. Connecting on a higher level than you may ever have believed. The debilitating loneliness and despair experienced by U.S. prisoners is slightly alleviated when remarkable people reach through the prison walls to connect.

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