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Better Education in College Or Prison?
My name is Joandus Olivas, currently incarcerated. The question is whether you receive a better education in college or in prison. Which of the two ensures that for sure success later in life? Which of… Full Transcript
In The Box Part 3
I want to make something abundantly clear about solitary confinement, to why I was placed in here. I said before and I say now, again, that solitary confinement is torture and negatively impacts the mental… Full Transcript
In The Box Part 2
New York state governor, Andrew M Cuomo, gave a press conference on Monday, March 30th. In which he discussed the need for New Yorkers to practice social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is… Full Transcript
In The Box
I want to make something abundantly clear about solitary confinement, to why I was placed in here. I said before and I say now, again, that solitary confinement is torture and negatively impacts the mental… Full Transcript
Solitary Confinement
Good evening. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun calling in from Wabash Valley correctional Facility in Indiana. From the [depths/death] of Indiana political prisoner Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, press release 2020. After spending 20 straight… Full Transcript
Love: A Message from Mumia
Dear brothers, sisters, comrades, friends on the MOVE. As we meet today, we are living examples of a truly remarkable movement: a movement for life, for liberation, for resistance, and yes, for love. We have… Full Transcript
PSA
In 1992, the brilliant law professor Derrick Bell published Faces at the Bottom of the Well, a series of potent essays on the sustained efforts of America to assign the bottom of the well to… Full Transcript
Excerpt 2 from “The Making and Unmaking of a Criminal”
Hello Prison Radio. This is Ozzie Mann Wright again. I’m coming at you from Summit County Jail. I am reading another excerpt from my upcoming book, “The Making and Unmaking of a Criminal.” I hope… Full Transcript
There is a Storm a’Comin’
Hello. My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. I am calling from the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, a prison located in southern Indiana. I am presenting one of my personal pieces, “There… Full Transcript
On Death Row Without a Sentence
On Death Row With No Death Sentence. For several years now, well, over a decade, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections kept dozens of men on death row even though they didn’t have a pending death… Full Transcript
Segregation Alert
For Dylann Roof: Life
For Dylann Roof, the next few days and weeks of his young life will prove his most memorable. That’s saying something, considering his slaughter of 9 sweet souls in a Black Charleston church. For, in… Full Transcript
Please Sign My Change.org Petition
My name is Christopher Trotter. I’m 54 years old. I’m serving 142 years for participating in a prison riot in 1985 at the Indiana State Reformatory in which no one was killed. You can go… Full Transcript
On Other Prisoners Compilation
“Last of Angola Three Free.” Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three, walked free. Albert Woodfox has the dubious distinction of having spent 43 years in the hole—solitary confinement—in the infamous prison farm and… Full Transcript
On Politics
PDC Salutation and Greeting for Dec 2nd Event
Brothers, friends, sisters, comrades, welcome. On the move. This is your brother, Mumia Abu-Jamal. And today you’ll hear from two of the finest former members of the Black Panther Party brothers Albert Woodfox and Robert… Full Transcript
My name’s Don Brown, 467895; I’m calling from Ohio. This is about supermax prisons. I was in a supermax prison from 2009 to 2014. And I’d like to talk about the effects that has on… Full Transcript