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VADOC At It Again, Possible Medicaid Scam?

David Annarelli

My name is David Annarelli, I’m a contributing writer for the Prison Journalism Project. Today is April 30, 2025, it’s a Wednesday. The Virginia DOC is notorious for a wide array of human rights abuses and… Full Transcript

Locked Up and Locked Down

Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Locked up and locked down.” For nearly a month now, all prisoners in Pennsylvania state prisons, over 40,000 men and women, have been locked down. What does lockdown mean? When I was on death row,… Full Transcript

Is There a Fear To Love?

Charles Karim Diggs

Charles Karim Diggs, and I’m calling from Pennsylvania, Graterford. And, uh, my, uh, title for the subject tonight is, “Is There a Fear to Love?” You may ask yourself, what does love have to do… Full Transcript

American Prisons as Senior Citizen’s Warehouses

Charles Karim Diggs

Hello everyone. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford, uh, prison. And my number is AK7945, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426. I wanted to, uh, share my feelings about the senior citizens in… Full Transcript

The Return Of The Missing Citizens

Charles Karim Diggs

“Return of the Missing Citizens: Why So Many Citizens in Prison?” American prisons, on any given day, have over 3 million or more women and men in jail. These prisons are local, county, statewide—also the… Full Transcript

The Representative or the Represented?

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Recently, a Black congresswoman from Florida revealed that white legislators from the state’s redistricting body changed her district to include the states overcrowded but under represented prisons, thereby insuring her defeat when the next election… Full Transcript

Free Alabama Movement

Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun

Greetings to everyone from the struggle here in Alabama, Free Alabama Movement. My name is Bennu Hannibal, and we send out greetings to all of our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated inside of the… Full Transcript

On Hugo Pinell

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Few of us know the name, Hugo Pinell. That’s because the last time it was in the newspapers was probably in 1971, or 1976, when he was tried as a member of the famous San… Full Transcript