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The Third Wave
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The third wave.” Like a trickster, the newest variant of COVID-19 has emerged just in time to dash the hopes of over a dozen states, especially those with the highest unvaccinated populations. Across the south… Full Transcript
Killer on Deathrow
Ronald Gibson
This is Ronald Gibson, BQ5220, calling in live from death row. There’s a killer on death row: for six months here at SCI Phoenix, we did everything within our power to mitigate against the COVID-19… Full Transcript
Buried Alive
Jamil Pirant
My name is Jamil Pirant. It’s just that when I think about being buried alive, I think about being in the joint. It’s like, you know, you got all these capabilities but you can’t do… Full Transcript
90% Infected
Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey
My name is Charlie Hughes. About two weeks ago, I had got back from Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas. Due to testing positive for COVID-19. I was moved back to Hutchinson Correctional Facility and… Full Transcript
Aging in Prison in the time of Coronavirus
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
My name is Dennis Solo McKeithan. I’m chairman of project 60, a committee underneath the Gray Panthers organization at SCI Phoenix, which is a senior citizen organization with about 900 members. The main agenda under… Full Transcript
Deaths at SCI Phoenix
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
My name is Dennis Solo McKeithan. I just found out – and I thought it was just the one or two guys that had passed, but it’s been six. My buddy Sherman from down North… Full Transcript
COVID-19: Weapons of Mass Incompetence
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“COVID-19: weapon of mass incompetence.” As of this writing, Ten thousand people have died from the impacts of the coronavirus also known as COVID-19. Ten thousand! And unless I miss my guess, it ain’t over… Full Transcript
The Greatest Day
Cecil Brookins
Hello. I’m here serving for life. Cecil Brookins, prison number EX5514, enslaved at SCI Greene, Pennsylvania. Numerous factual evidence proves I’m a factually actually innocent wrongfully convicted political prisoner. With all of the world’s problems… Full Transcript
Realities of COVID 19
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
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Things Fall Apart
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Things Fall Apart.” The great African writer Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel of the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title, Things Fall Apart. He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet… Full Transcript
Additional Memo on COVID 19
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
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Coronavirus
Dennis “Solo” McKeithan
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I am Izell Robinson, Minnesota inmate #210006. Sadly, in the Minnesota correctional facility, Rush City, where I’m confined, we have been subjected to a rise of COVID-positive cases. This has come as a surprise to… Full Transcript