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Moving Prisons
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Charlie Hughes also known as Bilal Abdul Salem Bey at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. About two months ago I got moved to medium cell house. Well, I got to medium cell house which… Full Transcript
Wrongful Conviction
Joseph Brown
My name is Joseph Patrice Brown. I’ve been on Mississippi death row for 31 years, wrongfully convicted and sentenced for the murder of Martha Day, a store clerk in August 8, 1992. My live-in girlfriend… Full Transcript
A Prayer
Izell Robinson
This is Minnesota inmate #210006, an innocent man confined within the quadrilaterals of systemic injustice fighting to be heard. I only want you, the listeners, to hear me. I’m endeavoring yet again to be heard.… Full Transcript
20,000 Days
Steven Nicholson
Alright, my name is Steven Nicholson here at Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI. The name of this poem is “20,000 Days.” Sometimes I feel like a miserable, minuscule, pitiful, little fool. 20,000 days on… Full Transcript
D.B.I.
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. from the belly of the beast. My inmate number is ND7568. In issue number 46 of the Movement, I published an article about death by incarceration. This started a lot… Full Transcript
The Truth About The Death Penalty
William A. Noguera
I am William A. Noguera, and this piece is entitled “The Truth About The Death Penalty.” I’m calling from Death Row at San Quentin Prison. Mention the death penalty, and people usually take sides: those… Full Transcript
The Question of Violence
Sergio Hyland
What’s up everybody. It’s Uptown Serg. I want to address the question of violence. Nobody can question whether or not the great city of Philadelphia is still in the thick of a gun violence epidemic.… Full Transcript
Reducing Gun Violence
Sergio Hyland
Sup everybody. It’s Uptown Serg. I got another one for you right now. Last year, Philly’s gun violence epidemic pushed the homicide rate to new heights. Nobody seems to be safe from becoming a potential… Full Transcript
Retaliation For Hunger Strike
Mansa Musa
Okay, hello world, my name is Mansa Musa, and I’m currently incarcerated at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California. I want to bring awareness to an incident that’s transpiring in my life,… Full Transcript
Culture Wars
Sergio Hyland
What’s up everybody, it’s Uptown Serg. I’m about to hit you with “Culture Wars.” Just before president Joe Biden announced his planned executive action to combat the spike in violent crime across America, Philadelphia politicians… Full Transcript
Kansas Freedom Bill Pt. 1
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey at the Hudson Correctional Facility. This piece is about the Kansas freedom bill called Kansas’ Healthcare, Education, Rehabilitation, and Re-entry Preparedness Bill Part 1. Section 1: be it enact a… Full Transcript
COVID 19 and Reconstruction
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Karim Charles Diggs. I’m calling from SCI Phoenix, Pennsylvania, and the title of my subject is “COVID-19 and Reconstruction.” A cure for all our diseases, including COVID-19, [inaudible] may very well be… Full Transcript
Phone Wars 4: Organizing Against Mass Incarceration
Dontie Mitchell
Organizing against mass incarceration. I was reading the interview of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who I never heard of until now. She wrote a book entitled “Golden Gulag,” which analyzes the buildup of the California prison… Full Transcript
Phone Wars 3
Dontie Mitchell
I was in the prison yard this morning, trying to get my young [] together to have a discussion about their future, when two of them were pulled away by guys from their town to… Full Transcript
A Podcast From Prison
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“A Podcast From Prison.” A young man named Sekou from north Philadelphia broadcasts weekly from prison. He shares with his growing group of listeners his thoughts, his hopes, and his concerns. What concerns him? What… Full Transcript
The Justice System
Omar Askia Ali
The title of this topic is the justice system. In the Philadelphia Tribune, 11-24-19, page one, Mr. Maurice Hudson was jailed for being poor. Philadephia Supreme Court freed him, calling the sentence an “egregious error.”… Full Transcript
Fake News and Dirty Game
Dontie Mitchell
“Fake News and a Dirty Game.” I was watching the news for upstate New York when a report was aired about three correctional officers being injured by a prisoner at Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie,… Full Transcript
A Big Let Down
Dontie Mitchell
“A Big Let Down.” On October 28, 2019, the first ever presidential town hall hosted by formerly incarcerated people was held at Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary. The historic site of the first modern prison in… Full Transcript
Abolition Of Repression
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Abolition of Repression.” Legates, friends, comrades, brothers, and sisters. Greetings! There can be no serious consideration of the subject of prison abolition in America without reflection on the work of black feminist scholar activist Dr.… Full Transcript
Hello, this is Mr. Eddie Treadwell. Again,Calling from Brooks Correctional Facility here in Michigan, and I just wanted to speak briefly about elderly prisoners in Michigan prisons, as well as all prisons all over the… Full Transcript