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On Hunger Strike: Losing Phone Access
Ekong Eshiet
My name is Ekong Eshiet. I’m currently being held out at Indiana [unclear] Department of Corrections at Westville Correctional Facility. My Indiana DOC number is 304103. I got sent out here on an interstate compact… Full Transcript
Death Comes and Death Goes
Steven Nicholson
Hello everybody, it’s Steven Lynn Nicholson again here in Jackson, Michigan. As always, help fund and donate to prisonradio.org, not that they’re asking, but I am, and PCAP, Prisoner Creative Arts Program in University of… Full Transcript
Why Was My Neighbor Tear Gassed?
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Why was my neighbor just tear gassed? It’s November 11, 2024, 10:52am. My neighbor here in Red Onion State Prison, these three solitary confinement cell blocks, was just tear gassed for the most absurd reason,… Full Transcript
Endure
Larry Stromberg
Hi, this is Larry Stromberg, and I’m going to perform my short play called “Endure.” “Endure” It was Christmas, 1973, South Philly. I met Joey during a difficult time in my childhood. I was seven… Full Transcript
Pro Se
Jamil Pirant
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
Suffering
Faluch Bigsby
Greetings, fellow citizens, it’s me, Faluch Bigsby, author of God Uses Gangsters. You could find my book on any book [site], Amazon, Barnes and Noble any major location. Well, today I want to talk about… Full Transcript
Fellowship
Spoon Jackson
Spoon Jackson, calling from Solano, and got a piece that I want to read about a fellow LWOP who is dying of cancer and trying to be commuted. Been down over 30 years but the… Full Transcript
Uplift Michigan City
Jamil Pirant
My name is Jamil Pirant. I’m calling out of Indiana Department of Corrections, and this piece is called “Uplift Michigan City.” I was transferred from Wabash Valley to ISP in like 2019. Now I went… Full Transcript
The Road
Izell Robinson
I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate number 210006. Now artistic expression and writing has become a therapy, allowing me an outlet to analyze, explore, and motivate change in my online life today. I want to… Full Transcript
Schools
Spoon Jackson
I think of the children of Angola given no fresh water but sold Coca-Cola. Kids killing kids in school, out of loneliness, out of despair, out of wanting the spotlight there. Who feels sad? It’s… Full Transcript
Prisoner Blues
Christian Weaver
My name’s Christian Weaver. I’m calling from Mountain City, TN, contributing to the Cruel, Not Unusual Enough audiobook, and the name of my poem, the first poem, is “Prison blues.” You don’t know loneliness until… Full Transcript
For Dylann Roof: Life
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Dylann Roof, the next few days and weeks of his young life will prove his most memorable. That’s saying something, considering his slaughter of 9 sweet souls in a Black Charleston church. For, in… Full Transcript
The Policy of Death
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It has happened again. And again. And again. And again. And again. A cop arrives on a scene. An order is barked (or oinked) And, in a flash, a person is dead. More than likely,… Full Transcript
9/11: Fifteen Years After
Mumia Featured on Democracy Now
Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today’s show with news that a federal judge has denied a request from former Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal for a life-saving medication that could cure his hepatitis C. Mumia… Full Transcript
Dark Days
From In Here
Kenneth Hartman
Sometimes, after 36 years imprisoned, the view from in here is shrouded in mists of confusion and despair. Violence and death, repression and resistance, and the growing recognition there are fundamental issues still unresolved after… Full Transcript
Memorial Day 2016
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Governments determine what day becomes a holiday. They declare what they will and won’t honor. They close their offices on such days, and an obedient media sets its programming in lockstep. For example, on Memorial… Full Transcript
All Life is Precious
Mumia Abu-Jamal
It was late 1973 or ’74, Eddie Africa recalls, when MOVE began their waves of protests against the animal industries; industries, yes, money-making industries. I’d have to admit, I never thought of it that way.… Full Transcript
Hey, Steven Lynn Nicholson again here in Jackson, Michigan. As always, support prisonradio.org, Prisoner Creative Arts Program out of University of Michigan. I may promote this again, but I’m promoting it again now, March 22,… Full Transcript