- 70 years old
- 41 years of incarceration
- 29.5 Years in Solitary Confinement
- Currently at S.C.I. Mahanoy, PA.
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Donate to Mumia Abu-Jamal Emergency Medical and Legal Fund, Official 2024
Mail takes 10-20 days to reach Mumia. Any mail that sent is scanned and copied, and the copies are then delivered to Mumia.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy
c/o PO Box 33028
St Petersburg, FL 33733
Criminal Legal Defense for Mumia Abu-Jamal:
Bret Grote, Esq. Abolitionist Law Center
bretgrote@alcenter.org; 412-654-9070
Judith Ritter, Esq.
Sam Spital, Esq. Legal Defense Fund
Medical Care and Conditions Lawyers:
Bret Grote, Esq. Abolitionist Law Center
bretgrote@alcenter.org; 412-654-9070
Noel Hanrahan, Esq. P.I. 415-793-7958
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Send money to Mumia Abu Jamal via JPay
Overcoming Death by Incarceration: The Path to Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Audio Essays, Books, Movies, Podcasts
Mumia’s Radio Essays on Prison Radio
Beneath the Mountain: An Anti Prison Reader City Lights 2024 (Ed. Mumia Abu-Jamal & Jennifer Black) featuring Robert Saleem Holbrook
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Murder Inc Empire, Genocide, and Manifest Destiny a trilogy w/ Stephen Vittoria
www.mumia-themovie.com (email info@prisonradio.org for a link to the full movie)
Manufacturing Guilt: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (Deep Image)
The Classroom and the Cell Podcast Mumia Abu-Jamal & Marc Lamont Hill
International:
“Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
Biography
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award-winning broadcast journalist, essayist, and author of 12 books.
Most recently, he’s edited Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader and authored the historic trilogy Murder Incorporated.
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In the late 1970s, Abu-Jamal worked as a reporter for radio stations throughout the Delaware Valley. He was a staff reporter for WUHY (now WHYY), the NPR flagship station, and he filed nationally for All Things Considered and the Morning Report. Along with his team at Philadelphia’s WUHY, he won the prestigious Major Armstrong Award (1980) from Columbia University for excellence in broadcasting. In 1981, Abu-Jamal was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists’ Philadelphia chapter.
For the past 38 years, Abu-Jamal has lived in state prison. 28 of those years were spent in solitary confinement on death row. Currently, he’s serving life without parole at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA. Abu-Jamal’s 1982 trial and its resultant first-degree murder conviction have been criticized as unconstitutionally corrupt by legal and activist groups for decades, including by Amnesty International and Nobel Laureates Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, and Desmond Tutu.
Abu-Jamal has earned overwhelming international support. His demand for a new trial and for freedom is supported by the European Parliament. He has been made an honorary citizen of Paris, France.
Abu-Jamal earned his BA at Goddard College in 1996; his MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1999; and an honorary Doctorate of Law from the New College of California in 1996. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.