Prison Radio
Mumia Abu-Jamal

You know what? If you read the legal paper, you’ll see someone being denied. And I don’t exaggerate this — every day; every day there’s a listing, there’s some prisoner seeking a King’s Bench motion, a mandamus motion, something motion like that. Nobody ever gets that, ever, and it doesn’t matter what the issue is. It matters who the parties are. And once you have that kind of thing, then you have a demonstration that this thing is not equal. Because what’s equal means anybody can do it. Anybody can’t do that. You have to have political connections. You have to — think about this, the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police] that you spoke of earlier? They still give money to Supreme Court justices, to this day. There’s nothing wrong with that under Pennsylvania law, but people should know that and understand that once you give a judge money, you bought that guy. You bought this guy. And look at the history of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the last few years. It is scandalous.

 These commentaries are recorded by Noel Hanrahan of prison radio.