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Kansas Healthcare and Rehabilitation Bill Pt. 2
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Bilal Abdul-Salaam Bey, also known as Charley Hughes, inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas. This is part two, section one of the Kansas Healthcare, Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Preparedness bill.… Full Transcript
Appetite for Academia
Heather Jarvis
My name is Heather Jarvis, and this is called “Appetite for Academia.” According to the National Reentry Resource Center and the Vera Institute of Justice, at least 95 percent of incarcerated people will be released… Full Transcript
Laura Taylor: Letter of Resignation
Heather Jarvis
My name is Heather Jarvis. It’s dead winter. Laura Taylor’s eyes are calm and cool, like the crisp air outside at the picnic table we’re sitting at. We can’t breathe in there. We needed air.… Full Transcript
Resolutions for Kansas Part 2 & 3
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
This is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey also known as Charley Hughes, number 96576, inmate at Hudson Correctional Facility here in Hudson, Kansas. As you all know, this piece is about resolutions being passed here in Kansas… Full Transcript
Constitution Of The Black Man
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
My name is Charley Hughes, also known as Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey. I am a inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility here in Hutchinson, Kansas. This piece is called “The Constitution of the Black Man,” and… Full Transcript
Violent Offenders
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
Dear outside world, my name is Christopher Trotter. I’m calling from inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Carlisle, Indiana. I would like to speak to you in regards of prisoners… Full Transcript
Political Prisoner
Christopher “Naeem” Trotter
My name is Christopher Trotter, and I’m a political prisoner held inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I came into the prison system with a four-year sentence for theft. And… Full Transcript
Better Education in College Or Prison?
Joadanus Olivas
My name is Joandus Olivas, currently incarcerated. The question is whether you receive a better education in college or in prison. Which of the two ensures that for sure success later in life? Which of… Full Transcript
So The Public Will Never Know
Dontie Mitchell
“So That the Public Never Knows.” I’m currently litigating in federal court, three civil rights lawsuits on my own because I get no help from any of these so called prison legal services, organizations that… Full Transcript
A Question
Spoon Jackson
This is Spoon Jackson at Solano prison. Feel free to write me, get lonely in here and your feedback is good for inspiration. This poem is titled “Question.” Education is a friendship. You treat it… Full Transcript
The Struggle Continues
Dontie Mitchell
I’m a man of action. So it bothers me I’m stuck in prison and thus limited in the impact I can make in this world to help myself, help my family, and to help others.… Full Transcript
Pay For Medication and Education, Not Prisons
Dontie Mitchell
I had planned to speak more about my federal lawsuit and TLS [community integration service}, but I was watching this local news program called “Empire State Weekly,” and they were speaking about a looming budget… Full Transcript
You Know Too Much So No
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“You Know Too Much, So No.” Mike is a young man in prison who uses his as time studying so that when he leaves he’ll have something to contribute to his family and his community.… Full Transcript
Disturbing the Peace
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The video is stunning. A muscular cop leans over a skinny schoolgirl, flips the chair in which she sits, sending her to a hard fall to floor on her back. Before she can disentangle herself… Full Transcript
Education
Terri Harper
“Education.” You cannot expect many, let alone all of us, to be rehabilitated over the decades. It takes for legal relief. Be it through the courts or commutation, if we have no continuing education avenues… Full Transcript
Are We Letting The Great Moment Vanish
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m calling from, uh, Pennsylvania Graterford state prison, and the, uh, topic for my, uh, little essay here is, uh, “Are We Letting a Great Moment Vanish?” This nation… Full Transcript
National Disaster and Prisoners
Charles Karim Diggs
Good evening. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. Once again, I’m at Graterford prison in Pennsylvania. My number is AK7945. I want to talk about, uh, the, the hurricane that’s going on in the country… Full Transcript
White Supremacy
Charles Karim Diggs
My name is Charles Karim Diggs. My subject today is white supremacy. I think first we have to understand this country was founded by white males, and all the laws, rules, and customs was put… Full Transcript
The Battles of History
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The events surrounding Charlottesville, Virginia have a resonance far beyond the borders of Old Dominion. Even though they began as a strictly local affair, they quickly assumed a national character, because this strictly local event… Full Transcript
This is Izell Robinson, inmate number 210006 in Minnesota. Um, I wanted to do excerpts from a personal piece I wrote called “Now or Never: Education Versus Excuses.” Langston Hughes wrote a populsr poem that… Full Transcript