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Prisons are Designed to Control the Poor
Dontie Mitchell
Ujamaa. Ujamaa. This is Dontie S. Mitchell, better known as Mfalme Sikivu reporting to you from Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York. In New York State alone, it costs hundreds of millions of… Full Transcript
The Unconstitutional AEDPA
Bryant Arroyo
Most citizens would agree that they don’t know anything about the AEDPA, and much less even know when the particular law was introduced and why was it passed into law in this country in the… Full Transcript
Credibility Gap
Edward Pinkney
When we look at the America which seized land from Mexico and practically destroyed the American Indians, we charged genocide. There’s almost an endless list of those others, but they are all adds up to… Full Transcript
The Trouble With Prison
Kenneth Hartman
The Trouble with Prison. Plato’s allegory of the cave describes how the limited perceptions of men leave them measuring the world with only the distorted reflections of reality. The trouble with prison, as it is… Full Transcript
Moratorium
Kevin Cooper
by Kevin Cooper. I am a poor African American, innocent man on death row in America. These are three very important matters that the United States Supreme Court doesn’t acknowledge when it comes to the… Full Transcript
New Afrikan Black Panther Party Ten Point Program
Shaka Zulu
The Ten Point Program: Its Relevancy and its Significance in the 21st Century. The Ten Point Program and platform of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party is a revolutionary program precisely meant to organize and… Full Transcript
Hi, my name is Brian Thames. My last name is spelled T-H-A-M-E-S. And the questions that I am responding to are [question] number three. First, ‘How do you believe your unique perspective as an incarcerated… Full Transcript