Season 2 - Coming July 15th

Season 2 of Sworn will return July 15th! Join host Philip Holloway, a defense attorney and former prosecutor with a background in law enforcement, as he pulls back the curtain on the justice system. New cases. New topics. Sworn S2 Coming 7.15!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
California has the largest prison system in the United States.
The United States has the largest prison system in the world.
You have all the different gangs, and we have all
the different factions in each gang. It is so abnormal
for human being be put under those conditions. In some
cases capital murder cases, just preventing a death sentence and

(00:21):
getting life without parole was a win, and that was
a win that I struggled to wrap my head around.
A lot of people in society believed that we need
to throw away the key on the men and women
that go to prison. I may have been innocent, but
there are a lot of guilty people in prison that
are not the worst of the crime that they committed.

(00:42):
These people can be redeemed. And our sentences have gotten
so long that when we hear somebody say, oh, we
got five years, that's not bad, think about how much
happens in five years. We've lost track of how long
that is. I mean, when they can said that they
were churching me like that was so shocking to me
because I have been tragued to receive him everything from
the day I met him till the day I lost him.

(01:05):
He's keeping here beloved. People just want justice so bad
that they're willing to accept everything at face value when
they need to really look deeper and really stand up
when they hear about an injustice that's happening when you're
manipulated by a power and a justice system that is
supposed to be the last of the line, is supposed
to be the true sense of justice, the true sense

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of what's going on, at least as closest we can
get it. I can forgive anybody that has been manipulated.
I can't forgive those that did the manipulated. And I
always say there's two naive positions. One naive position is
that everyone in prison is innocent. The other naive position
is everyone in prison is guilty. We're trying to figure
out where does that line end. Last seasonal Sworn, we

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looked at some of the crimes and cases that caught
America's attention and highlighted serious issues in our justice system.
This season, we've got a new approach. We're tackling the
real problems in a legal system directly. We're looking at
things like faulty forensic science, false confessions, and mandatory minimum
prison sentences. Hear the stories of innocent people who ended

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up behind bars and hear from people who are fighting
to fix these issues. Join us this season on Sworn