Amplified Voices

Amplified Voices is a podcast that lifts the voices of people and families impacted by the criminal legal system. Hosts Jason and Amber speak with real people in real communities to help them step into the power of their lived experience. Together, they explore shared humanity and real solutions for positive change.

Amplified Voices is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Amplified Voices, a society show with 61 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Brook Davis: Diversion & Expungement - A Second Chance or Not? - Season 6, Episode 7

  Sep 30, 202655 minS6

  Send us a text. Please provide contact information if you'd like a response. A record that’s expunged is supposed to be gone, so why can it still cost someone their job years later? In this episode, Amber and Jason chat with Brook Davis, a Memphis educator, veteran, and mom whose life changed in an instant after a years of domestic abuse and an acute crisis led to a conviction. Brook speaks with rare clarity about what it feels like when the system tells your story for you, especially when law enforcement power and public narratives are stacked on one side. We also dig into veterans court and diversion programs, including what they demand and what they can make possible. Brook completed an intense 18-month path that ended in expungement, then translated her experience into teaching incarcerated youth inside a juvenile detention center. For more than a decade, she served as the kind of credible messenger young people in the justice system need, proving that rehabilitation and reentry can be real. Then a change in facility ownership triggered a new background check, and Brook was suddenly told her background was “unfavorable” without any details, transparency, or clear appeal. We talk about expungement loopholes, “matters of fact” hiring decisions, clean slate laws, and why second-chance policy fails when agencies can access hidden data and keep it secret. Subscribe, share this episode, and leave a review Support the show

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  Episode #5

  Shauna Jones - Born into the System - Season 6 Episode 5

  Jul 2, 202655 minS6

  Send us a text. Please provide contact information if you'd like a response. The first time Shauna Jones shares her story publicly, she starts in a place most people never imagine: being born into custody and growing up inside a life shaped by state systems. We talk about Arizona’s history, what power looks like behind prison walls, and how public narratives can erase consent and blame survivors when harm happens in custody. This conversation stays grounded in lived experience while asking bigger questions about the criminal legal system, institutional violence, and what society calls “justice.” We follow Shauna through childhood instability, intergenerational incarceration, and the grief that comes from losing the few stable anchors a kid can cling to. She describes building a family of her own, surviving a near-death assault, and the unraveling that led to her 2014 arrest. From there, we get an unfiltered look at jail and prison: classification-based segregation, denied programming, retaliation for advocating, and the exhausting choices families make just to stay connected through visits, calls, and paid messaging. After release in 2023, Shauna explains why reentry is not a finish line. We dig into the containment model, probation and surveillance, mandated treatment, polygraphs, and the sex offense registry, including the hidden punishment that lands on children and loved ones through stigma, digital exposure, and loss of privacy. Shauna also shares the work she’s doing now through the Collaborative Justice Institute to translate lived experience into policy language, and she draws a direct line between mass incarceration, foster care, and adoption timelines that can separate families through policy as much as force. If this conversation expands how you think about incarceration, reentry, and reform, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review so more people can find these voices. What part of Shauna’s story stayed with you most? Support the show

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  Episode #4

  Alex Brown: Surviving the System & Finding Community - Season Six, Episode Four

  May 30, 202653 minS6

  <p>Send us a text. Please provide contact information if you'd like a response. </p><p>One decision at 19 can echo for decades, especially when the criminal legal system is built to keep consequences rolling long after a sentence ends. In this episode of Amplified Voices, Jason and Amber sit down with Alex Brown to trace that full arc: a childhood in Connecticut, a late ADHD diagnosis, a college path that felt within reach, and then a crash that took a life and pulled her into court, prison, and years of post conviction supervision.<br/><br/>Alex walks us through...

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  Episode #3

  Jesse Crosson: The Difference Between Running and Growing - Season 6 Episode 3

  May 11, 202652 minS6

  <p>Send us a text. Please provide contact information if you'd like a response. </p><p>A teen tries to outrun pain, finds cocaine, and goes from a kid coming of age, to a daily user in a matter of weeks. Then come the crimes, the fear, the SWAT arrest, and a sentence so extreme it reshapes his entire identity: 32 years of prison time at 18 years old. In this episode of Amplified Voices, Jason and guest host, Kim are joined by Jesse Crosson, lived-experience advocate, activist and author of The Best Part of Prison, to talk through what led to...

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  Episode #2

  Bessie Elmore: One Call Changed Everything - Never Give Up - Season 6 Episode 2

  Mar 5, 202659 minS6

  <p>Send us a text. Please provide contact information if you'd like a response. </p><p>On this episode of Amplified Voices, Amber and Jason speak with Bessie Elmore who shares how a single phone call shattered the illusion of normal and sent her family into a world of warrants, headlines, courtrooms, and prisons. Everything seemed to move too fast for the truth to catch up. What followed wasn’t a miracle; it was grit. Across decades, Bessie turned confusion into literacy, fear into strategy, and isolation into community power. We walk through the shock of an FBI knock, the we...

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