Joe Rogan Experience #2228 - Josh Dubin

Josh Dubin is the Executive Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, a criminal justice reform advocate, and civil rights attorney. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/josh-dubin

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Nov 13, 20242h 15mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: November 13, 2024
Duration: 2h 15m
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. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/josh-dubin

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Josh Dubin and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #2228 - Josh Dubin explores wrongful Convictions, Psychedelics, and Lawfare: Justice System Under Fire Joe Rogan and civil rights attorney Josh Dubin revisit the fallout from a prior guest, Sheldon Johnson, who allegedly committed a brutal murder after being resentenced and released, and use it to examine guilt, recidivism, and the mental health needs of long‑term prisoners. They discuss Dubin’s self‑reflection on second chances, the rarity of violent reoffending among exonerees, and the systemic stigma around therapy—while advocating for serious rehabilitation, including psychedelic therapy, in prisons. The conversation broadens into how race, propaganda, and drug policy shaped mass incarceration, and how media, prosecutors, and politicians weaponize the legal system, with Trump’s prosecutions as a central example. Dubin then details the “Ohio Four” case—four drug dealers he argues were wrongfully convicted of murder on the testimony of a paid informant who later recanted—and calls for public pressure on the local DA to correct the injustice.

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