# S4E3: From Sing Sing to Columbia University: Prison Education, the Second Look Act, and Prison Conditions

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Podcast: [Just Justice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/just-justice-7032206)
Published: 2026-06-09T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://jessicahenryjustice.podbean.com/e/mujahadeen-muhammad/
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## Resource

After nearly 25 years in New York prisons, Mujahideen Muhammad, MPS came home in 2024 and went straight to work on criminal justice reform. In this episode of Just Justice, he talks with host Jessica Henry about the New York Second Look Act, how prison education transformed his life at Sing Sing, the book club he built around James Garbarino's Miller's Children, and the humanitarian crisis in New York's prisons — including the death of Robert Brooks and the correctional officers' strike.Now a research assistant at the Columbia University Center for Justice and co-founder of the nonprofit Pillars of Promise, Mujahideen makes the case for re-sentencing reform, second chances, and elevating the voices of incarcerated people. For more about Mujahadeen and his work at Columbia: https://centerforjustice.columbia.edu/people/mujahideen-muhammad For more about Pillars of Promise: https://www.thepillarsofpromise.com/ For more about Jessica Henry, go to https://jessicahenryjustice.com/ or join her on Substack at https://jessicahenryjustice.substack.com/. Production Editor: Kaz Araki

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