Jason Flom

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522 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 17 Feb

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · He Finds Music Stars. Now He's Helping Us Save the Life of a Wrongfully Convicted Man · 17 Feb 2026 podcast

So I was getting in a taxi, and I wanted something to read.

But this was when we didn't have phones to distract us constantly while we were sitting in the back of a taxi.

1993.

So I bought the Post.

And there was a story that I was obviously meant to read.

And the story was a story about a kid named Stephen Lennon who had just been denied clemency by Governor Mario Cuomo in spite of the fact that the sentencing judge, the warden, and even Geraldine Ferraro

And some of you will remember her.

She was the first woman to ever receive a nomination for vice president from one of the two major political parties in this country.

So she had even written a letter on his behalf.

And yet this kid had been turned down for parole.

What was he in for?

Well, he was doing 15 to life on a nonviolent first offense cocaine possession charge in a maximum security prison in New York State.

He was in Dannemora Prison.

And he had gotten, you know, a college degree or two in prison, and he had done all these different things.

He was 32.

I was 32.

He had been in prison for eight years.

I had been sober by this point for almost eight years.

And I was like, I'm an atheist, but there but for the grace of something higher than me goes I, right?

So I felt like I got to do something about this because it very well could have been me.

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