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Sorry For The Disappointment
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Today I wanted to do a original, authentic piece that I wrote, called “Sorry for the Disappointment and Shame.” It’s more of like a poetic, kind of… Full Transcript
An Innocent Man
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota, inmate number 210006, an innocent man confined within the quadrilaterals of systemic injustice, fighting to be hurt and affect positive change. Yet to accomplish success, I need you, the listeners,… Full Transcript
Failure Of The Criminal Justice System
Tori Chisholm
If the job of the criminal justice system is to reduce and implement sensible means in the elimination of the cycle of crime, it has failed the people of this great country. The answer cannot… Full Transcript
The Fight to Staying Alive
Dontie Mitchell
There are those who think I should give up my fight for UFD, and I should just accept the fact that these people who run the New York state prison system don’t want UFD to… Full Transcript
Even the Koch Institute Has a Presidential Pardon List of Thousands of Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Even the Koch Institute has a presidential pardon list of thousands of prisoners,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. The conservative Koch Institute, owned conservative billionaire Charles Koch of Koch Industries, has organized a loose coalition of… Full Transcript
Prisons are Designed to Control the Poor
Dontie Mitchell
Ujamaa. Ujamaa. This is Dontie S. Mitchell, better known as Mfalme Sikivu reporting to you from Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York. In New York State alone, it costs hundreds of millions of… Full Transcript
To Free or Not To Free
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“To Free or Not to Free: Alveda King: 90, Black celebrities: 0” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. When Reverend Alveda King, the Atlanta pastor and niece of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. met with… Full Transcript
For Freedom: Kim Kardashian West Strikes Again
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“For Freedom: Kim Kardashian West Strikes Again” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. Reality TV star Kim Kardashians West is surprising everyone by championing the cause of freedom for incarcerated Black women and men serving mandatory death… Full Transcript
Prisoner’s Families Give Krasner the Win
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
No city poll, political commentator, or newspaper editor will tell the public that candidate Larry Krasner won the primary elections for District Attorney, not because of billionaire George Soros’ $1.5 million check, and not because… Full Transcript
You do the crime, you do the time. Some people tell me that sounds odd coming from somebody that’s been incarcerated so long, but after 40 years, two months and six days of incarceration, I’ve lived,… Full Transcript