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Classification Issues
Chimezie Akara
Hey, how you doing everybody? My name is Chimezie Akara. I’m being housed at the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, incarcerated individual, #W89574. I would like to tell you about something that affects me personally, but… Full Transcript
Suicide
David Annarelli
“Suicide.” Today is March 30, so Monday, 2026. Mental health. We are regularly reminded that it exists. We know that it is the greater cause of many of our least and our worst national problems.… Full Transcript
Trans Discrimination
Daraya Firewalker-Fields
My name is David Firewalker-Fields. I am the plaintiff in Firewalker-Fields v. Lee. I’ve been a DOC inmate since 2005. Been a hearing impaired inmate since 2019. I was approved for multiple accessories, including a… Full Transcript
The Virginia Model: Failure of Grievance Process
David Annarelli
This is “The Virginia Model: Failure of Grievance Process.” Today is December 19, 2025. If the Virginia model is about anything, it’s about ideas and policies that are archaic and failed. Harmful punishment, prejudice and… Full Transcript
Being Transgender in a Man’s Prison
Calipree
Hi, my name is Calipree and I’m a transgender female in a men’s prison. Ever since I got arrested in September 2020, I was forced to choose which race to gang up with. I am gay… Full Transcript
Abuses at Rush City
Reggie Harper
My name is Reggie Harper. I’ve been housed here for four years in the Rush City Prison in the state of Minnesota and I’m reaching out because regardless of how we go about it, kites… Full Transcript
False Idea of Rehabilitation
Darren Stanley (KnowledgeBorn GodAllah)
KnowledgeBorn GodAllah: Peace, this KnowledgeBorn GodAllah, calling from Pelican Bay State Prison. I have two issues that I want to discuss. One is the disparity within the CDCR police staffing, in which they’re now using,… Full Transcript
Fighting For My Rights
Krystal Clark
Hi. My name is Krystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064, I’m in the valley of death. My rights is being tooken from me. Medical, Jacqueline Jones. This is just so sad. I was… Full Transcript
On Behalf of Spanish/Latino Prisoners
Denis Rivera
Hi, hello I’m Dennis Rivera, state number at Red Onion State Prison Virginia, is 1125686, and I’m calling on behalf, of all Spanish prisoners. They retaliating, they harassing, discriminating us, not providing us with showers… Full Transcript
Closeness To God’s One Self
Darren Stanley (KnowledgeBorn GodAllah)
Peace. This KnowledgeBorn GodAllah calling from Pelican Bay State Prison. This is an emergency broadcast from Pelican Bay State Prison. [Unclear] universal God’s Life Radio about the 5% Nation of God’s and Earths God-centered cultural… Full Transcript
The Warden
Jamil Pirant
Hello my name is Jamil Pirant. I’m currently in Plainfield Correctional Facility in Indiana and call this “The Warden.” So, it’s been a chain of events that’s been going on in my life over the… Full Transcript
Continued Medical Neglect
Krystal Clark
Hi everybody, this is Krystal Denise Clark. Y’all know where I’m [unclear], the WHV the Valley of Death. Oh my God, it’s just so much been going on. It’s just so much been going on.… Full Transcript
90 Days Probation For Filing A Grievance
Krystal Clark
Hi everybody, this is Krystal calling from the Valley of Death. Been trying to stay strong. Been really down for some days, my breathing and everything. Dr. Ellison, my guy, he is such a evil… Full Transcript
Losing My Grandbaby
Krystal Clark
I need all y’all to listen to me. While I was back there for those seven days, my family, supporters, friends, called up here, pastors — to tell me that I lost my grandson, that… Full Transcript
Challenges of Transferring
Darren Stanley (KnowledgeBorn GodAllah)
Yo Peace. This is KnowledgeBorn GodAllah calling from Solano State Prison. Today [inaudible]… knowledge power born equality, and therefore I speak equality in my nation and God’s Earth, as well as all human and civilized… Full Transcript
Hunger Strike Announcement on Voices From the Frontline
Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar)
Intro Music (Nina Simome): Here comes the sun, little darling. Here comes the sun. I say, it’s all right. It’s all right. Julian Lamb: Good morning, Voices listeners. You’re at 90.7 FM KPFK. This is Julian… Full Transcript
Shut Down WHV
Krystal Clark
Hi, my name is Krystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 4350064. I’m at WHV, the Valley of Death and the Valley of Hell. This is [sighs] … we back again. This is terrible, like so… Full Transcript
Segregation Alert: Stand with Me Comrade
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Hello. My name is Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling in today from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I was recently snatched up by the administration in a sting for some reason,… Full Transcript
Messin’ With Major
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name is Major — (his real name)–Major Tillery of West Philadelphia. Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the… Full Transcript
Hi, everybody, this is Krystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064. I’m in the Valley of Death. When I say, y’all, this is the Valley of Death, it is, versus the Valley of Death… Full Transcript