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Self Immolation in Virginia Prisons
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
On September 15, 2024, a young African man, Ekong Eshiet and his cellmate Trayvon Brown, set themselves on fire at Virginia’s remote supermax Red Onion State Prison. Ekong suffered third degree burns along his legs… Full Transcript
Unseen
Larry Stromberg
My name is Larry Stromberg and I’m going to read my poem, Unseen. Unseen. Days fly by with lightning speed. Nights vanish into darkness. The world spins into another tomorrow. I stand in the middle… Full Transcript
Litigations Against PADOC
Derrick Gibson
Prisoners on death row here in Pennsylvania Department of Corrections have successfully litigated and won the argument of being housed in indefinite isolation of solitary confinement as being cruel and unusual punishment and inhumane treatment.… Full Transcript
Solitary Confinement
Joadanus Olivas
“Solitary confinement.” I must admit during my 12 years of incarceration since the age of 16, I haven’t done much solitary confinement time in comparison to other fellow prisoners, so I didn’t rush into writing… Full Transcript
COVID Update: I Tested Positive
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
My name is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey. I am an inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility here in Hutchinson, Kansas. Commentary is about the COVID-19. About four days ago, I started feeling sick. I woke up… Full Transcript
Servant For Life
Cecil Brookins
I’m your server for life. My name is Cecil Brookins, prisoner number EX5514. I’m in prison at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Evidence proves I’m-I’m a factually, actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all love, glory,… Full Transcript
Restricted Movement Unit
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Hello. My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling from Indiana Department of Corrections at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. In September of this year, September 6, the Indiana Department… Full Transcript
The Visitor
Wilbert Sanders
This is Wilbert Sanders, Jazz the Poet, with “The Visitor.” While captured in the world of hard knocks, behind steel doors with electronic locks, fences topped off with razor wire, a living hell without the… Full Transcript
Excerpt 1 from “The Making and Unmaking of a Criminal”
Ozzie Mannwright
Hello Prison Radio. This is Ozzie Mann Wright coming to you from Summit County Jail again. Today, I’ll be reading an excerpt from my upcoming book, “The Making and Unmaking of a Criminal.” I hope… Full Transcript
Beauty in Cell Bars
Spoon Jackson
Beauty in cell bars. We locked ourselves up. Not because of the bars and steel that surrounds us. Not because life doesn’t bend to our every whim. But because of the projections we placed onto… Full Transcript
Prisoner Blues
Christian Weaver
My name’s Christian Weaver. I’m calling from Mountain City, TN, contributing to the Cruel, Not Unusual Enough audiobook, and the name of my poem, the first poem, is “Prison blues.” You don’t know loneliness until… Full Transcript
Help Make 2017 My Last Year in Incarceration
Uhuru Rowe
This is Uhuru Rowe. Help make 2017 my last year of incarceration. Happy belated new year to all of you. I wish you all the best on your personal and professional endeavors. The beginning of… Full Transcript
Organized Crime
Wilbert Sanders
Hi, this is Wilbert Sanders, as Jazz the Poet, with a piece I call “Organized Crime.” After reviewing the situation of race relations within and out this complex nation, the disenfranchised hold United States guilty… Full Transcript
What If The Prison System Is All Wrong
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The Cost of Loss
Cetewayo Freed from the Hole
Mumia Abu-Jamal
On the white card above his cell door, the name Arthur Johnson is typed, followed by his prison number. Johnson has been held in solitary confinement in half a dozen PA prisons, since 1979, late… Full Transcript
Maroon Prevails
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black Liberation fighter since his youth, after many years of struggle, has prevailed in his action to bar the Pa. Dept. of Corrections (DOC) from ever holding him in isolation again.… Full Transcript
Before being incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison, June of this year, he was at the Wallens Ridge State Prison. December of 2023, he was in an altercation with another inmate. By the time the… Full Transcript