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Contact Me
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
The title of this piece is, “Contact Me.” This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from a prison camp, behind enemy lines. Due to prison restrictions and monitoring, some people don’t feel like they’re comfortable reaching… Full Transcript
Assange, Palestine, and Other Freedom Struggles
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Assange, Palestine, and Other Freedom Struggles. Julian Assange, a journalist and publisher for the internet agency known as WikiLeaks, faces a frightening regime of U.S. torture if he’s extradited to America on false espionage charges.… Full Transcript
Repression of Prisoners
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
This is Kenjuan Congo Jr. from the belly of the beast. The repression of prisoners is a common practice in these human warehouses. This is seen all across the country. The United States Supreme Court… Full Transcript
On Uncuffed
Spoon Jackson
Okay, what happened at Uncuffed was that, uh, they investigated Uncuffed, they sent a special, uh, prison police in there, and they did a couple of months of investigation, and came back and said, “Everything… Full Transcript
Julian’s Run
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Julian’s Run.” First things first, who was Julian Assange? And secondarily, why is his struggle of import to any of us? Assange, born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia in 1971, is the founder of the global… Full Transcript
Julian Assange
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Julian Assange, perhaps one of the best-known of the WikiLeaks collective, spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London until, under circumstances that remain unclear, his asylum became his detention—pending his extradition to the… Full Transcript
A Call for Prison Reform; Norwegian Style
Dontie Mitchell
I had a conversation the other day with a good lady named Dianna Goodwin. She’s a senior advisor to New York state Senator Lewis R. Sepúlveda, who is also the chair for the State Senate… Full Transcript
Wars Against Assange
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Wars Against Assange.” The intrepid journalist and author Glenn Greenwald, in his 2014 work No Place to Hide, offers a damning portrait of the U.S. media, too long trained to worship at the altars of… Full Transcript
A History of UFD
Dontie Mitchell
“A History of UFD.” When I first founded UFD on July 29, 2008, it was initially meant to serve as a positive alternative to gang. I got tired of seeing young prisoners get caught up… Full Transcript
Unlawfully Incarcerated
Stevie Stevenson
My name is Stevie J. Stevenson, K16324. And the title of this piece is “Unlawfully Incarcerated.” I’m from Los Angeles, California. I’ve been down for the past 28 years. In 2012, I filed what is… Full Transcript
CDC Removes Lawbooks from Prisoners
Stevie Stevenson
My name is Stevie J. Stevenson. I am a California state prisoner. The title of this is “CDC Finally Gets its Chance at Taking the Lawbooks Away from Prisoners.” In 1966, over 100 inmates filed… Full Transcript
Facebook Censors Shakaboona
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Facebook Censors Shakaboona,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. They’ve done it. Facebook censors have officially removed political commentator and human rights activist prisoner Shakaboona from the largest social media platform in the world. This act comes… Full Transcript
Bay View Censorship
Peter “Pitt” Mukuria
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
Interview with Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Lynne Stewart Reads “Prisoners Voices Blocked and Censorship of US Prisons”
Jaan Laaman
The United States is often called the country of prisons because we are five percent of the world’s population, but the U.S. holds 25 percent of all the prisoners in the world. Recently we have… Full Transcript
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall: Why Prison Radio Matters
Prison Censoring Thought Control Police
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In States across the country we have State departmental agencies like the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) acting as government “thought control” police over prisoners in… Full Transcript
![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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Wars against Black history. And now we see, perhaps in the first time in modern days, states like Florida waging war against Black history by passing laws against what teachers can teach, and, perhaps more… Full Transcript