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Another Death by COVID
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
Dennis McKethan, SCI phoenix in Pennsylvania. “Another Death by COVID.” The day I learned that another friend from childhood who was imprisoned at SCI Phoenix has died from COVID. His name was Bruce Knaus. He… Full Transcript
A Second Surge of COVID 19
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
This is a report by Dennis Solo McKeithan, SCI Phoenix, Collegeville, PA, pertaining to the second surge of COVID-19 in the state prison system. You know, I reported about the first surge and how frightening… Full Transcript
Killer on Deathrow
Ronald Gibson
This is Ronald Gibson, BQ5220, calling in live from death row. There’s a killer on death row: for six months here at SCI Phoenix, we did everything within our power to mitigate against the COVID-19… Full Transcript
Buried Alive
Jamil Pirant
My name is Jamil Pirant. It’s just that when I think about being buried alive, I think about being in the joint. It’s like, you know, you got all these capabilities but you can’t do… Full Transcript
The Populism of Pandemics
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For months now, the nation has been battered by the ravages of COVID-19: the Coronavirus. With millions of people infected, and over 190,000 people now dead, it now turn out that from the very start,… Full Transcript
Children Of The Corn
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When we think of politicians, we too often see them as great, even mighty figures, seemingly larger than life.That’s because of how the media projects them -and far too often, protects them.But in times like… Full Transcript
After One Hundred Thousand
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“After One Hundred Thousand.” What happens when the counter strikes one hundred thousand? Nothing. One hundred thousand Americans dead. That means for all intents and purposes, nothing much. So does the counter stop counting? Or… Full Transcript
Aging in Prison in the time of Coronavirus
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
My name is Dennis Solo McKeithan. I’m chairman of project 60, a committee underneath the Gray Panthers organization at SCI Phoenix, which is a senior citizen organization with about 900 members. The main agenda under… Full Transcript
When All Things Changed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The crisis created by the coronavirus has revealed, with amazing speed, how vulnerable the United States, and indeed nations around the world, is to something that the human eye cannot see. In a matter of… Full Transcript
COVID-19 Response Questionaire
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald S. Lewis. The watchful eyes of the prison officials behind the mass oppression discourages us from talking to each other, and so a free exchange of communication is severely obstructed. After one… Full Transcript
Disaster After Disaster
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Disaster After Disaster.” In a matter of weeks, the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 has claimed the lives of over 75,000 people, the highest death rate in the world now in the United States of… Full Transcript
Mumia Reporting In
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia: You heard that I was hospitalized. It is not true. In fact, I haven’t been up medical for about a month… Other speaker: Oh wow! Mumia: …which is rare for me because I usually… Full Transcript
Locked Up and Locked Down
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Locked up and locked down.” For nearly a month now, all prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons, over 40,000 men and women, have been locked down. What does lockdown mean? When I was on death row,… Full Transcript
COVID-19: Weapons of Mass Incompetence
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“COVID-19: weapon of mass incompetence.” As of this writing, Ten thousand people have died from the impacts of the coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Ten thousand! And unless I miss my guess, it ain’t over… Full Transcript
The Greatest Day
Cecil Brookins
Hello. I’m here serving for life. Cecil Brookins, prison number EX5514, enslaved at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Numerous factual evidence proves I’m a factually actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all of the world’s problems… Full Transcript
Things Fall Apart
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Things Fall Apart.” The great African writer Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel of the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title, Things Fall Apart. He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet… Full Transcript
Big Trouble in Big China
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Big trouble in big China.” The novel coronavirus has brought the world’s second biggest economy to a virtual standstill. That’s because China is the workhouse of the west where cars, computers, iPhones, clothes, and a… Full Transcript
My name is Derrick Gibson, and I’m a prisoner at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections at SCI Phoenix. On April the 6th, 2021 at SCI Phoenix, begin- begun administrating the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to… Full Transcript