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10/17/21 Uhuru Rowe

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People often ask me why I choose to use Prison Rad

People often ask me why I choose to use Prison Radio to voice my concerns. It’s a legitimate question. After all, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has a grievance system, and if that doesn’t work, prisoners have the ability to challenge our conditions in court.

The problem with these processes is that they don’t work. They all smoke and mirrors: simple measures of reform put in place to keep prisoners in a disadvantaged position. Therefore, when it comes to prisoner’s rights, our only real hope is for public involvement.

It’s an on-the-record, first-hand account of what’s taking place on the inside of prisons. And if you do a thorough investigation of the claims made by prisoners on Prison Radio, you will undoubtedly see that these claims are not lacking in validity as prison officials and their co-conspirators in the mainstream media would like to believe.

This, fellow listeners, is why Prison Radio is as vital to society as the oxygen one needs to breathe. The hard truth is that prisoners have no real recourse. When violated, our best and only option is to report that violation to the violator and hope that he or she holds themselves accountable: a dream scenario which has never once happened in the history of relationships between the oppressor and the oppressed.

I strongly encourage all of you that urge your family and friends to tune into Prison Radio more regularly so that they can listen to journalists on the inside give true accounts of what we’re up against.

This is our version of the mainstream media. This is who we trust to represent the real concerns of people on the inside of prisons. You don’t have to take my word for anything: do your own research. But in your journey to find the truth, if your moral conscience tells you that everything you thought you knew was wrong, I hope that you find the courage and fortitude to then do what is right.

- Sergio Hyland "Why Prison Radio"

This week is a big one for online giving. Remember the important work of Prison Radio.

With your support we have been able to increase our recording capacity and our quest for freedom!

Prison Radio is listening and amplifying the voice

Prison Radio is listening and amplifying the voices of women at Huron Valley prison in Michigan.

Several months ago, Prison Radio received a letter from Naykima Hill, a woman incarcerated at Women’s Huron Valley in Ypsilanti, MI. Naykima told about being held in a gym without ventilation, heat, or any other basic necessities.

The brutality and inhumane conditions are continuing. In October Naykima called in again, exposing guard brutality.

For us at Prison Radio, the story of Naykima and her peers was and still is a reminder that even though the COVID-19 pandemic has somewhat wavered for those on the outside, those on the inside are still victims to the worst abuses of human rights as they live under a state of emergency.

At Prison Radio we stand in solidarity with our sisters in Women’s Huron Valley.

Here are somethings you can do to help:

Share Naykima's story and the stories of other women calling in from WHV.

Write letters of support to Naykima.

Organize a phone zap with your community. Public pressure is the most effective way to force negligent prisons to improve their conditions and treatments of prisoners.

Donate to Prison Radio so we can continue to amplify these egregious injustices.

It matters when you hand written letters show up at the prison. When you take notice, you shine the bright white hot spot light on the the prison. Please write Naykima and her sisters:

NAYKIMA TINEE HILL 270530
Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility
3201 Bemis Road
Ypsilanti, MI 48197-0911

We are entirely dependent on gifts from community members. Please make a gift and invite your friends to do the same. Donate to keep these voices heard.

Uhuru Rowe speaking on the reactionary nature of A

Uhuru Rowe speaking on the reactionary nature of American politics.

Please help us keep voices like Uhuru's on the air. We are entirely dependent on gifts from community members. Please make a gift and invite your friends to do the same. We welcome all of your gifts, modest or large. And we know that the poorest people give the most - so shout out to all of you who stretch to make this work possible. We are fundraising $100,000 by January 5th to keep these voices on the air and continue our fight for justice.

Several of our correspondents have shared horrifyi

Several of our correspondents have shared horrifying stories about what’s happening at Women’s Huron Valley in the last year: moldy units, contaminated water, prison guard brutality, crowded beds, unsafe building conditions, and denial of adequate healthcare. Women’s Huron Valley must address these conditions and liberate incarcerated women from their harsh circumstances ASAP.

In the next few days, Prison Radio will be developing an action plan to hold public officials accountable for the horrors happening at Women’s Huron Valley—and prisons in the state of Michigan writ lagre.

Prison Radio is so grateful. With your support, we

Prison Radio is so grateful. With your support, we have been able to listen, expand, and increase our recording capacity and reach. Mumia Abu-Jamal, reporting from inside the incarceration nation, has been joined by over 100 journalists reporting from behind the walls, whose commentaries are now on radio stations across the country and streaming worldwide from www.prisonradio.org.

We have always been bold. Help us raise $100,000 by Jan 5.

This is an unusual ask, and we are meeting the challenge. We have seen tremendous growth in our correspondent list. With her bar card in hand Prison Radio's cofounder Noelle Hanrahan, Esq is mounting legal challenges to protect our correspondents and secure freedom. Arthur "Cetewayo" Johnson, is now free because of her investigation, (he had spent 50 yrs in prison). Last month she exposed Joseph Garcia (C-SAU) the "Bernie Madoff" of jail security contractors. And now she is co-counsel for Marvin Pete Walker Jr. whose conviction has been overturned and is facing retrial on murder charges in Santa Clara County CA.

These voices tell us the real human cost of mass incarceration. They document the suffering it creates.

George Jackson (Black Panther & Political Prisoner) taught us that the movement for racial justice requires responding to leadership from inside the prisons. As we enter our 30th year doing this work, we know we cannot do this work without you.
We are entirely dependent on gifts from community members. We would welcome foundation support, but honestly, we have been doing this whether or not Pew Charitable Trusts joins us.

Please make a gift and invite your friends to do the same. We welcome all of your gifts, modest or large. And we know that the poorest people give the most - so shout out to all of you who stretch to make this work possible.

We value each and every one of you, and your commitment to a justice movement that elevates the most marginalized voices.

When we fight, we win!
Jennifer Beach

What is Prison Radio? We are a multimedia studio t

What is Prison Radio? We are a multimedia studio that seeks to challenge the prison-industrial complex by sharing the voices of incarcerated people with the world. You can check us out at prisonradio.org.

You can support our work by donating at the link in our bio. Our work at Prison Radio is sustained by independent donors like you!

David Gilbert will be released from prison by Nove

David Gilbert will be released from prison by November 30th. He was granted a parole hearing after Gov Cuomo commuted sentence.

“The rulers, the rich, and their armed mercenaries are the only lives valued by this court. We say that if they sentence us to 1,000 years or shoot us tomorrow, it will not save this social system” - David Gilbert

In March of this year, after being denied care at

In March of this year, after being denied care at the infirmary in SCI Mahanoy, Mumia was transferred to the hospital and diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He had emergency double bypass surgery.   When Mumia’s Hepatitis-C, in 2015 became acute, and remained untreated the prison’s negligence lead to renal failure and diabetic shock. We moblized, organized, and put international pressure on the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. It took over a year, but with your help, we won a preliminary injunction that forced the prison stop denying critical care and give him the fast acting anti-viral cure. His case for medical neglect is set for trial in April 2022! Prisoners across the nation have used this precedent setting injunction to receive the lifesaving cure to acute Hep C infections.   As he recovers from heart surgery, Mumia needs our help.  Right now we are bringing the bright hot spotlight on the prison. The food on the trays at SCI Mahanoy causes diabetes and poor heart health. This combined with the total lack of yard time and solitary confinement as a result of COVID lockdowns has created lethal conditions for folks in prison.   Healthy food is a human right. Food is medicine. Our loved ones deserve the dignity of a nutritious diet.   A cardiac diet and exercise are critical when recovering from heart surgery. It is the best medicine. You cannot repair your heart, and let it heal without exercise and while being forced to eat white bread, white starch, salt, sugar, and meat. A health diet has to be mostly fresh plants and vegetables. Mumia still has not received the critical cardiac diet prescribed at the hospital. The prison has been plagued by Covid lockdowns and he only gets out of his cell often for minutes a day to use the phone. He is in solitary in a small cell with six feet of walking space! When they are not on lock down - he can walk in the yard once a day and the day room two times a day. Please consider writing and reaching out to secretary Little and demanding healthier foods for our friends and family on the inside.

Rest in Power Chuck Africa.

Rest in Power Chuck Africa.

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