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This giving Tuesday, we could really use your gene

This giving Tuesday, we could really use your generosity. Correspondents like Krystal rely on Prison Radio to get their stories heard by the public. donate at prisonradio.org

Kenneth Lee Zammaron just called in with the tragi

Kenneth Lee Zammaron just called in with the tragic news of his friend Kurt committing suicide this morning. Despite requesting psychological help from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Kurt was instead flagged, and forced to spend the holiday weekend in isolation. This is deep neglect and carelessness from the Department of Corrections is a consistent theme from our correspondents. Abolish Prisons Now.

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🚨 Time is running out! ⏳ We need your immediate support to amplify crucial voices like Mumia's in the fight for liberation. Act now—donate to ensure their voices resonate louder than ever! 📢

Donate now to keep voices like Mumia's on the air!

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You are the reason we have survived for so many ye

You are the reason we have survived for so many years. You and other amazing people, generous folks, true believers, from all over the world have been on this journey with us. Today, we are asking you to consider taking another step with us and making a deeper commitment, as we work to bring all our folks home. Together we will shape the future.

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Lynn L is an anti-racist activist and grandmother from Berkeley, California. She shifted her Prison Radio support to a monthly gift in 2021. It allowed her to give a little more and more consistently. Monthly gifts are dependable, consistent, and come right when we need to pay the light bill and the phone bills. Please consider being a monthly donor at prisonradio.org

"Decades of negotiations have led to nothing but m

"Decades of negotiations have led to nothing but more of the same. Palestinians want what all people want: freedom." - Mumia Abu-Jamal's latest commentary "War Against The Fleas." Please donate to Prison Radio to keep voices like Mumia on the air.

Throughout the years, many of our correspondents h

Throughout the years, many of our correspondents have spoken out about the struggle for liberation of the Palestinian people from occupation.

We looked into our archive to highlight actions that our correspondents have taken, risking censorship and retaliation in the effort to reach across international borders and acknowledge the resistance and suffering that is a direct result of carceral and imperial violence. Our U.S. political prisoners expressed solidarity with those politically imprisoned and occupied in Palestine.

Take five minutes, anytime over the next three day

Take five minutes, anytime over the next three days and demand that Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) release the 500+ books that they are with holding (now for more than 11 months) from over 90 women at CMCF.

Please join our Mississippi Prison Banned Books Week
Phone Zap - October 25-27

1st) MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain, BCain@mdoc.state.ms.us
2nd) Assistant to Commissioner, Laura Chan-King, LChan@mdoc.state.ms.us

1st) MDOC Central Office: 601.359.5600
2nd) Laura Chan-King: 601.359.5622

Since January 2023, the prison has wholesale refused to distribute more than 500 books and thousands of pages of news articles, discussion guides, zines, and other educational materials sent from “1977 Books”, an independent bookstore in Montgomery, Alabama.

Break the Blockade.

The prison has not given intended recipients any notification of seizure/censorship, any access to an appeal process. This violates publishers’ and prisoners’ rights to free speech and equal protection as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

In March 2023, MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain * foot note publicly claimed Mississippi prisons do not engage in widespread content-based censorship: “We don’t do a lot of book banning.” Yet the largest women’s prison in the state is withholding more than 600lbs (24 boxes) of paperback books and printed materials from an approved vendor.

For three days this week (October 25-27), we ask that you call and email MDOC’s central office and demand that they distribute these books. Here is the link to our email and phone script.

Join Prison Radio, in solidarity with the incarcerated people at CMCF and Study & Struggle, in the fight against prison censorship.

Harold is a brilliant reporter. After having his

Harold is a brilliant reporter. After having his conviction overturned, he is now reporting from the Washington DC City jail where he awaits trial. He is continuing to expose the inhumane treatment of those with mental illness in this facility.

Harold wants his story to help others who are experiencing mental illness inside prison.

In a new investigative series in the Washington City Paper, our correspondent Harold Cunningham reports on his successful challenge to placement in the Florence Colorado ADX Control Unit where he spent 17 years in solitary confinement. He is detailing the torturous conditions and woeful provision of mental health care in that facility.

He describes the horrible treatment that he and his fellow prisoners suffered inside the notorious ADX. His reporting contains serious and brilliant examples of rare insights into failures of the Bureau of Prisons’ policies on people with serious mental illnesses.

“We were mentally and physically abused and tortured for years,” says Harold Cunningham, “There was no mental health treatment.”

ADX Florence and many other Super Max US Prisons allow very little communication from prisoners inside the facility. They specifically deny prisoners contact with the outside world in order to keep these conditions far from the public eye and scrutiny. There is even a unit of the Federal Prisons in Terri Haute Indiana called the “communications management unit”. Our correspondents have been threatened with being sent there for writing about “International Women’s Day” and “Lynne Stewart”, who was herself sent to federal prison for sending a press release out after a legal visit to her client in federal prison: a violation of a “SAMS” rule (Security Access Management) at a federal prison, meant to eliminate the ability of political prisoners to communicate with their supporters.

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