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Solitary: Arthur’s World
Mumia Abu-Jamal
His name is Arthur Johnson, and he has lived in his cell, in the ‘hole’, for 37 years. You heard me right: 37 years! He was first cast into the Pa. Dept. of Corrections version… Full Transcript
RIP Mark Thiel and an Update
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Greetings. All power to the people. My name is Khalfani Malik Khaldun, also known as Leonard McQuay. This is a support call. I am a political prisoner inside the Indiana Department of Corrections. Recently, I… Full Transcript
Last of the Angola Three: Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several days ago, Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola 3, walked free. Albert Woodfox has the dubious distinction of having spent 43 years in the Hole — solitary confinement– in the infamous prison farm… Full Transcript
They Came in the Morning
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
All power to the people who are fighting on behalf of all political prisoners and prisoners of war. My name is brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun. I am a 47 year old revolutionary political prison activist… Full Transcript
Poem about Mumia
Bryant Arroyo
Bryant Arroyo for Prison Radio, in collaboration with Robert Sanders, aka, Jazz the Poet Mumia Abu-Jamal Since the government fails to represent by employing officials with evil intent, Lives are destroyed, ripped apart, and torn.… Full Transcript
The Power of the People
Mutope Duguma
Mutope Duguma, I’m speaking on the power of the people. We, the People, have to realize that we have power in numbers, whereas we prisoners of all racial makeups, demonstrated in our peaceful protest to… Full Transcript
Where Was You?
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
Where was you? Hugo Yogi Pinell’s life mattered. This is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, who met this comrade 15 years ago. He represented the best of all existing revolutionary formations in these gulag prison plantations… 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
U.S. Congress Rejects CIA Torture
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
US Congress rejects CIA Torture” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall. The US Congress, led by Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, recently slammed the CIA in a released Senate report over a CIA torture program that lasted from… Full Transcript
Voices of the Forgotten Political Prisoners
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
I am the voice of the forgotten political prisoners. I have lived in a windowless torture chamber 24 hours a day for the last 20 years in solitary confinement. The prison cracks think I am out… Full Transcript
Interview with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox (2002)
Albert Woodfox
Noelle Hanrahan: Prison Radio conducted these rare and exclusive interviews with Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three by phone from the Closed Cell Restriction Unit and the Camp J punishment unit at… Full Transcript
Revolutionary Visions Wide Open
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun, Indiana political prisoner. “Revolutionary Visions Wide Open.” The struggles here in America, of the 1960s and 70s, sparked the rise of courageous freedom fighters who had a unique… Full Transcript
Solitary Confinement
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solitary confinement, especially for extended terms, is quite literally soul death; for the state’s way of killing without killing. I’ve seen men mutilate themselves, cut their necks, their throats, all because the mind-killing boredom drove… Full Transcript
The Wages of Solitary
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The story is quite recent, and therefore much is not known. A state prison system commissioner opens his front door and is greeted by flame and bullets. A grieving governor laments the killing of his… Full Transcript
Hard Knock Radio Interview – Angola 3
Free Speech Radio – Angola 3
36 Hours: Death in a Cell
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The strangulation death of 19 year old Ronnie L. White in a jail cell in Upper Marlboro, Prince George’s County, Maryland, after 36 hours confinement, has confounded Ron Harris, the teenager’s father. A month ago,… Full Transcript
Russell Maroon Shoatz, a Black Liberation fighter since his youth, after many years of struggle, has prevailed in his action to bar the Pa. Dept. of Corrections (DOC) from ever holding him in isolation again.… Full Transcript