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Podcast: Eye on Veterans
Episode: The Last Prisoner Project: Fighting for veterans convicted of cannabis crimes
Description: We’re discussing veterans, cannabis, incarceration and a story brought to us from The Last Prisoner Project.
Alicia Deals tracks the story of her father, Air Force veteran Robert Deals, who was arrested, convicted and sentenced on cannabis related charges in Arizona, over a decade ago.
In 2020 Arizona residents voted to legalize cannabis. (Now legal for both medical and recreational use). In an ironic twist, Alicia Deals was awarded a state license to operate a dispensary in Tempe, AZ.
Yet her father remains behind bars.
Deals shares more details of her fa...