Most innocent prisoners get repeatedly ignored. Feel their frustrations as this short story from 1971 dramatizes such alienation. An aspiring writer sends letters to political and cultural leaders, who all give him a canned response. Much like the cold reactions the innocent often get.

Most innocent prisoners get overlooked by the resource-lean innocence movement. It’s helped to exonerate only about 4,000 of the nearly 100,000 estimated innocent prisoners. Need-response addresses their disillusionment with the innocence movement.

The first service of the new service of need-response will focus on serving the wrongly convicted innocent. This final episode of season one is for them, and for all of their loved ones, who are disillusioned with the innocence movement. They need an alternative to the disappointing legal system. They need to be heard and not repeatedly ignored by adversarialist institutions. Now they can turn to need-response to get the justice that the adversarial judicial system fails to give them.

Steph shares their story for needing an alternative to the disappointing legalistic approach to exonerating the wrongly convicted innocent.

Let this introduce you to the specialized need-response service of Exoneration Services. This service may be necessary for the countless unexonerated innocent underserved by the legalistic approach of the Innocence Movement.

This episode shifts focus from the broader scope of the new need-response profession to its specialization with Exoneration Services to serve the underserved wrongly convicted innocent. That includes Steph, who exposes their own journey of being wrongly convicted for a crime that ever occurred. This episode includes content that could be disturbing to some listeners.

Gustavo and Steph introduce you to need-response orientations, and how immature development of these orientations sour into something called toxic legalism. Consider it as a pervasive problem causing much of the problems in the world today. Then appreciate how need-response exists to counter this pervasive problem, with the power of love.

Steph and Gustavo introduce the idea of symfunction, as that phase between full wellness and slipping into illness. Then covers the concept of symfunction capture, that helps to explain how easily anyone can slip into dysfunction when not their inflexible needs do not promptly resolve.

Some of this content was inspired by this article from Scientific American about sliding into a victimhood mindset.