Joe Rogan Experience #2096 - Josh Dubin & Sheldon Johnson

Josh Dubin is the Executive Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, a criminal justice reform advocate, and civil rights attorney. Sheldon Johnson is a criminal justice reform advocate. He works with at risk youth at the Queens Defenders in New York. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/josh-dubin

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Jun 27, 20242h 36mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 27, 2024
Duration: 2h 36m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Josh Dubin is the Executive Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, a criminal justice reform advocate, and civil rights attorney. Sheldon Johnson is a criminal justice reform advocate. He works with at risk youth at the Queens Defenders in New York. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/josh-dubin

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Josh Dubin
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Sheldon Johnson
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Joe Rogan
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Josh Dubin, Joe Rogan Experience #2096 - Josh Dubin & Sheldon Johnson explores from 50-Year Sentence to Youth Advocate: Sheldon Johnson’s Transformation Joe Rogan speaks with civil-rights advocate Josh Dubin and formerly incarcerated Sheldon Johnson, who received a 50-year sentence for two robberies where the victim suffered only two stitches. Sheldon recounts his traumatic childhood, early institutionalization, immersion in crime, and the brutal realities of New York’s prison system, including gangs, solitary confinement, and prison labor. He describes the turning point where he chose education, rehabilitation, and service—earning degrees, mentoring others, and eventually securing resentencing and release after 25 years. The discussion broadens into systemic racism, over‑sentencing, privatized prisons, junk forensic science, and concrete community-based alternatives like the Queens Defenders’ Youth Emergent Leadership Program.

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