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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
All Life is Precious
When A Child Dies
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Cleveland officials announce no charges to be filed in the police killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death -the killing – of a child. When a child dies, the… Full Transcript
Tamir
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Question: When is a child not a child? Answer: When it’s a Black child. That question and answer came to me when I heard that the police killing of 12 – year- old Tamir Rice… Full Transcript
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