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Who Is Running The Virginia Prison System?
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
The Virginia legislature enacted a set of laws governing the state’s prison system. Under those laws, it designated a director as the system’s head of operations. Chadwick Dotson was appointed under the administration of present… Full Transcript
On Restrictive Release List Of Solitary Confinement
Derrick Gibson
Hi, my name is Derrick Gibson, a prisoner in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on the restricted release list of solitary confinement. After a week-long hunger strike and protest of the prison conditions of long-term… Full Transcript
Scabies and Mold at WHV
Bria Blackmon
Bria 976422. This prison is not in good shape with mold all in the- in the showers. The units are leaking. The- the ceilings are leaking. We don’t have any air conditioning some units. Like… Full Transcript
Intro to India Porter
India Porter
So my name is India Porter. I’m currently incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley correctional facility, and I’m in Ypsilanti, Michigan. I have been incarcerated going on 19 years as of August. I was convicted in… Full Transcript
Say His Name: Duante Wright
Izell Robinson
Say his name: Daunte Wright. Now let’s pause. This rampant killing and incarceration of black men in Minnesota must stop. The civil unrest is only a grieving response that at times take the form of… Full Transcript
The Invisible Man
Wilbert Sanders
My name is Wilbert Sanders, known as ‘Jazz the Poet,’ with a piece I call “The Invisible Man.” As I anticipate and impatiently wait To be discharged from these walls of hate, There are many… Full Transcript
History & Our Connection To It: Part 1
Ra Atem Hotep
This is Part 1 of “History & Our Connection To It.” History is defined as a tale, a story, a chronological record of significant events as affecting a nation or an institution, often including an… Full Transcript
Signs of the Times
Safir Chuma Asafo
This piece is called “Signs of the Times,” by Safir Chuma Asafo, reporting from Pennsylvania Penitentiary at Huntington. Beware, the beginning of the end is here. So, prepare for Tiananmen Square Everywhere, in total fear… Full Transcript
We Who Are Oppressed
Kevin Cooper
We poor people, we African Americans, have been oppressed for so long and by so many different people that it honestly seems that oppression is all that we know. It appears that we who are… Full Transcript
Mandela Sanitized
Mumia Abu-Jamal
He was born “Rolihlahla” in July of 1918, in a nation of which he was not truly a citizen; into a country called the Union of South Africa, a part of the British Empire. The… Full Transcript
Mumia Abu-Jamal In Conversation With Fred Hampton Jr. (2005)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fred Hampton Jr: Okay, this Chairman Fred, coming to you not from no TNT or no NBC, but live and direct from POCC [Prisoners of Conscience Committee]. On the Block Report. We’ll be doing a… Full Transcript
My name is Derek Gibson, a person in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on a restricted release list of indefinite solitary confinement since 2013, over a 12 year period. But under this harsh and inhumane,… Full Transcript