Jarvis Jay Masters

In English, we had to read an article and more articles on this man in prison. If you dont know who he is, Jarvis Jay Masters (b 1962, Long Beach, CA) is an African American man currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. He arrived at San Quentin in 1981 at the age of 19 charged with armed robbery and was moved to Death Row in 1990 after being convicted of a role in a prison guard's murder.
During his time in prison, Jarvis became a Buddhist and started writing about his experiences from that perspective.(According to Wikipedia)

We had to write our thoughts in our English journal on this man and how we feel on what he writes about in his vignettes, this is what I think.

Sanctuary

I don't believe a word that he said in his vignette. This may be the only time in the history of my life where I don't give the benefit of the doubt to a person I dont know. Let me explain...

Jarvis is a person who needs a figure in his life because his personality is influential. What this means is that Jarvis is well influenced by others and if he was in a well functioning family for most of his life, he wouldn't be the way he acts now. The reason he was put in jail (committing the crime or not) was because he was running away from his foster parents and everyone that he seemed to loved died.

I read on to research this "man of wisdom" and what I found out on an organization dedicated to free this man is that the people that are trying to free him are part of the black panther group and etc. One of the women who want to free him and have tried to back him up is Angela Davis who is a political activist who was once in the black panther group. That's not a big deal, what is; is that Angela Davis had a very popular trial against her stating that she killed a judge that had two black convicts on trial.

It seems this man is up for anything new and was easily influenced in jail to the religion Buddhism, which gives another point that his influential personality feeds off of family and security where he based his gangs off of in jail and his religion.