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D.B.I.
Kenjuan Congo Jr.
This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. from the belly of the beast. My inmate number is ND7568. In issue number 46 of the Movement, I published an article about death by incarceration. This started a lot… Full Transcript
Color of Mercy
Spoon Jackson
“Color of Mercy,” a monologue by Spoon Jackson. I am a desert turtle flipped on its back under a hot summer sun, unable to turn up right there’s so much pain. So much disappointment in my… Full Transcript
Batts II: An Atrocity Towards Children
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II Decision is an Atrocity Towards Child Offenders,” by Shakaboona. There was no victory in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Batts II case decision. In fact, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision was… Full Transcript
Interview on The Other Death Penalty Project
Kenneth Hartman
Speaker 1 0:00 This is Prison Radio, and my name is Carol Seligman. Today we speak with Kenneth E. Hartman, Executive Director of The Other Death Penalty Project, and editor of the forthcoming book, “Too… Full Transcript
The Cost of Loss
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
PA Federal Judge Says Re-sentencing To 35-Years-to-Life is Illegal
Philly DA Seth Williams Blocked Child Lifers’ Path to Freedom
If You Die in Prison, It’s the Death Penalty
House Bill 2135 and Parole Eligibility for Life Sentence Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda posted May 25,2016 to all House members, Representative Jason Dawkins announced he will be introducing a bill in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that will abolish Life-Without-Parole (LWOP) imprisonment in… Full Transcript
Philly District Attorney Trades One Illegal Sentence For Another
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Philadelphia District Attorney (D.A.) Seth Williams finally released his Juvenile Resentencing Protocol in compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Miller vs. Alabama and Montgomery vs. Louisiana. D.A. Seth Williams has stated “we are… Full Transcript
PA Parole Board Lags Behind In Reform for Child Lifers
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) is in the pits when it comes to reforming the way it handles parole review of child offenders and child lifer prisoners. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court… Full Transcript
LWOP: Life Without Parole
Asar Imhotep Amen
My name is Troy Thomas. I’m calling from Lancaster, California. You have a lot of people in California, I think, like 4500 or so that are doing LWOP, and our state has given up on… Full Transcript
The Free Virginia Movement
Uhuru Rowe
This is Comrade Uhuru of the Free Virginia Movement. As we inch ever so closer towards the September 9 anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion, which happened back in 1971, we, of the Free Virginia… Full Transcript
We’re the Barbarians
Kenneth Hartman
We’re the barbarians. The mainstream media rarely broadcasts something so powerful it calls into question conventional narratives. But on April 3, CBS’ 60 Minutes ran a segment about how prisoners are treated in Germany, that… Full Transcript
It Turns Out We’re the Barbarians
Kenneth Hartman
It turns out, we’re the barbarians. It’s not often the mainstream corporate media broadcasts something so powerful it shatters preconceptions and calls into question conventionally accepted narratives. But on April 3rd, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts and DA’s are Hellbent on Railroading 500 Child Lifers at Resentencing
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In a 6-3 decision, the nation’s high court, on January 25th, ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana that its own 2012 ruling in Miller v. Alabama, holding mandatory life sentences without parole for child defenders to… Full Transcript
Mandatory Life Without Parole May Violate 8th Amendment Under Miller
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In Miller v. Alabama, United States Supreme Court held that imposing a mandatory sentence on a child offender constituted a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The question remained whether the… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Courts Must Extend Parole to 550 Child Offenders Serving Life Without Parole Sentences
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the aftermath of Miller v. Alabama, a case that abolished automatic life without parole sentencing of children convicted of murder, the question has arisen whether its holding in Miller is retroactive to child offenders… Full Transcript
This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from a prison camp behind enemy lines. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 135 is parole eligibility for those who are serving life sentences, and of course, people are going to scream… Full Transcript