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Retaliation For Calling Prison Radio
Okay. My name is Marcia Graham. My prison number is 849136. I’m calling today because another fellow person here, Jackson, gave us all the number or whatever to call and inform you all about what’s… Full Transcript
Update on Mold, COVID, and Sexual Discrimination
Yes, my name is Auroniece Jackson. My number is 863572. First off, I’m going to speak on the situation with COVID, like how they’re handling the COVID situation. There’s no structure whatsoever. They’re housing all… Full Transcript
Mumia Health and Legal Update 8/30/21
My family, my friends, brothers, sisters, comrades, I’ve heard that a lot of people worried about my health. I really want to reassure people that I am so much better than I have been in… Full Transcript
The Third Wave
“The third wave.” Like a trickster, the newest variant of COVID-19 has emerged just in time to dash the hopes of over a dozen states, especially those with the highest unvaccinated populations. Across the south… Full Transcript
Whats Lurking In The Hallway?
Okay. My name is Stacy Anderson. My number is 821983. I’ve been incarcerated for 12 years and I was inspired by writing my own poem. I always had a vivid imagination, so I decided to… Full Transcript
Scabies and Mold at WHV
Bria 976422. This prison is not in good shape with mold all in the- in the showers. The units are leaking. The- the ceilings are leaking. We don’t have any air conditioning some units. Like… Full Transcript
Conditions at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility
Okay. My name is Aroniece Jackson. My inmate number is 863752. I’m calling you pertaining to the things that’s going on in the prison. It’s overcrowded. Officers are corrupted. Mold in every unit. It’s unbearable… Full Transcript
COVID-19 A Love Poem, Karma Death, And Vultures
This is, uh, Spoon Jackson, and I got this little poem I wrote about COVID-19 before I was tripping with it, and I’m still recovering from it. COVID-19. I cannot imagine keeping social distance from… Full Transcript
Message for Mumia
Mumia, this is a quick message from Uptown Serg, just to let you know that you have my thoughts and prayers as you battle against not only a system that has unjustly imprisoned you but… Full Transcript
Letter of Thanks
“Letter of Thanks.” Dear sisters, brothers, comrades, and friends and family on a MOVE! How can I thank you? These, my words, can hardly measure the flood of love that you have radiated on my… Full Transcript
The Virus
My name is Omar Askia Ali, a.ka Edward Sistrunk. I’m housed at SCI Coal Township in Pennsylvania. The topic today is the virus. Currently, the percentage of the Coronavirus at SCI Coal Township is small.… Full Transcript
Why Prison Radio?
Sup everybody, this is Uptown Serg, and this piece is called “Why Prison Radio.” As prisoners approach a full year [inaudible] on an enhanced lockdown, we still find it difficult to galvanize enough public support… Full Transcript
Kansas Freedom Bill Pt. 1
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
PA’s Fretless Mishandling of COVID-19
Sup everybody. It’s Uptown Serg, and I got this piece that I want y’all to listen to. When I arrived at SCI Chester back in 2016, one of the very first elders I met and… Full Transcript
COVID 19 and Reconstruction
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
Maroon Fights Two Battles
“Maroon Fights Two Battles.” Russell Maroon Shoatz, the black liberation fighter and self-taught historian is presently engaged in at least two battles for his life. One is colon cancer, stage four, which he has been… Full Transcript
Cold Days on Death Row
Every place where death row stands is, by its very nature, a cold place. For what is colder than a government killing its own citizens? Especially after years of psychological and mental torture and the… Full Transcript
After The Fall
“After The Fall.” As the froth and bubbling of the American election begins to cool, it is important to give some thought to what has happened here, and what it means both here and abroad… Full Transcript
Buried Alive
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
Hey, this is Peter Mukuria, also known as comrade Pitt. I recently got transferred here in the state of Maryland at Jessup Correctional Institution, came from Virginia DOC, Red Onion State Prison where I was… Full Transcript