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In this episode we interview Brian Koehn, Co-founder, CEO, & Co-chair of the Board of of Social Profit Corrections (SPC)  Brian's shared passion for corrections reform and social justice prompted him to end his 28-year career in corrections and start SPC.  Through his tenure as warden at five separate facilities, Brian experienced firsthand the existing gaps and opportunities within the criminal justice system. His personal mission is to reform corrections. Brian is a security expert and has vast experience in the field of corrections, which includes 14 years as warden at five separate facilities.  He has managed contracts in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshals Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as multiple state, and county jails.  Brian served as Director of Security over 65 secure facilities.  He is an engaged member of the American Correctional Association (ACA) and participates in several committees.  Brian served in the United States Marine Corps and Army National Guard. He holds a bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University and is an Ironman triathlete.  

Dr. Lucas D. Malishchak is the Director of the Psychology Office within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.  In this role, Lucas and his team are responsible for oversight of the mental health care system which supports Pennsylvania's 24 state correctional institutions and more than 39,000 incarcerated individuals.  

Marshall Dayan was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Macon, Georgia. Hewas awarded a B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, and received his J.D. in 1986from Antioch School of Law.Dayan has been actively involved in the anti-death penalty movement since 1981,and representing those charged with or convicted of capital crimes since 1986. He was astaff attorney with the North Carolina Resource Center for seven years, and an assistantappellate defender for the State of North Carolina for three years. In August, 2001, hebecame an Assistant Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School ofLaw. In June, 2006, Dayan became State Strategies Coordinator of the national ACLU’sCapital Punishment Project in Durham, N.C. After a year with the ACLU-CPP, Dayanjoined the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Defender’s Office in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, where he serves as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. He is also anadjunct professor at Pitt Law School, where he teaches a capital punishment law class.Dayan has had published several law review articles on the death penalty invarious journals, and has also written several pieces on capital litigation for TheChampion, the magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Hehas served as Chair of the Board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,as President of the NC-based People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, and as ViceChair of the Commission on Social Action for Reform Judaism, a national policy-makingboard for the Union of Reform Judaism. He also served as Co-Chair of the board ofPennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and continues to serve on its boardof directors. He served as President of the Pittsburgh chapter of the ACLU ofPennsylvania, and is active in the Jewish community, having served as President of theboard of the Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee. He also serves on the Executive Boardof Adat Shalom Synagogue in Cheswick, PA 

This episode was in response to this video on the New Yorker's website https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-dehumanizing-theater-of-the-parole-process