- 54 years old
- 30 years of incarceration
- Currently at SCI Pine Grove
- Sentenced to life without the possibility of parole
Table of Contents
Commentaries
| Title | Duration | Date |
|---|---|---|
| First Amendment Anathema or Weapon – Part 2 | 02:56 | 02/21/25 |
| First Amendment Anathema Or Weapon – Part 1 | 02:33 | 02/21/25 |
| American Criminology Society | 04:40 | 12/01/23 |
| Anatomy of America’s Wasteful Industrial Complex | 03:36 | 05/15/23 |
| Waster Convergence: Anatomy of America’s Wasteful Prison Industrial Complex | 04/24/23 | |
| Smells Like A Job for Title 9 Tidal Wave | 02:43 | 01/23/23 |
| New York People’s Forum | 06:34 | 04/25/22 |
| Green Theme Speech | 05:36 | 10/21/21 |
| Psychological Impact of Solitary Confinement | 07:09 | 09/14/20 |
| Psychological Impact of Solitary Confinement | 07:54 | 09/14/20 |
Contact Info
Mailing Address:
Bryant Arroyo, CU1126
SCI Pine Grove
189 Fyock Rd
Indiana, PA 15701
Support Info
Genesis Hernandez: ghernandez2@lghealth.org
Ray Arroyo: ray_arroyo15@ymail.com
“This is survival mode. When you’re backed into a corner, you fight to live.”
Bryant Arroyo
Biography
Bryant Arroyo is currently located at SCI Pine Grove. Sentenced to life without possibility of parole for a crime that he did not commit, Arroyo has since fought tirelessly for the betterment of himself and his fellow prisoners. He was transferred from SCI Coal Township and into solitary confinement at Pine Grove as retaliation for his work as a whistleblower on the prison’s violation of accessibility and fire codes. Besides being an advocate for disability and elderly prisoner rights, he is, according to friend and mentor Mumia Abu-Jamal, “the world’s first jailhouse environmentalist.” He earned that title after successfully organizing his fellow prisoners against the construction of a $400 million coal gasification plant that was slated to be built 300 feet from SCI Frackville—a plant that would have poisoned the environment around the prison and the nearby community. Because of his fearless activism, the project was ultimately scrapped.
Arroyo has also routinely faced barriers to access basic medical services in prison, dealing with denied care, cancelled appointments, and inadequate medication. As a result, he has fought for the right to Medicaid for incarcerated people, arguing that the largely poor and disabled population should qualify as eligible.
With educational materials for English language learners nearly nonexistent, he tutors his fellow Spanish speakers using the Workers World newspaper. He has spoken at Harvard University and Haverford College, testified at a roundtable discussion on prison conditions in Center City Philadelphia, and been the keynote speaker at the 2018 Yale Environmental Forum. He is currently fighting against the for-profit privatization of the prison mail system, encouraging his fellow prisoners to boycott the mail service entirely since the 2018 implementation of draconian new policies in which inmate mail is sent to a for-profit third party where it is opened, photocopied, and stored on private servers. Throughout his 31 years of incarceration, Arroyo has remained an unwavering voice for freedom of speech, despite the severe repression he continues to face.
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