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For 36 years, Prison Radio has been dedicated to liberating the voices of incarcerated people.
Our correspondents—like Champagne Song, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Krystal Clark, Kevin Rashid Johnson, and Karen Brown—have decided that as dangerous as it is to speak out, silence is a greater threat.
We believe that the actions of oppressed people in one place can illuminate and reshape political possibilities everywhere. Right now, we are all part of a global transformation, a challenge to empire and capitalism, defined and shaped by our own beautiful solidarity and resistance.
“Freedom is the only treatment”
Mumia Abu-Jamal, an elder who has spent 44 years in prison, is a shimmering beacon of that resistance. He is serving a death by incarceration sentence and has survived organ failure, open-heart surgery, and needless blindness for 9 months in 2025 due to a life-threatening denial of appropriate treatment.
His resilience, and your support, have been his lifeline.
Now, we are taking his fight for freedom to the global stage. The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) has submitted a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), asking them to investigate the violations of international human rights in Mumia’s case.
Read the full UN petition here.
From the Global to the Local: Ending Death by Incarceration
This past March, we witnessed a historic win in Pennsylvania. The PA Supreme Court ruled that Derrick Lee’s Life Without the Possibility of Parole sentence was unconstitutional. This seismic event, as noted by Justice Dougherty, “potentially implicates the sentences of more than 1,000 Pennsylvania inmates.”
This victory proves that grassroots organizing, incarcerated leadership, and legal advocacy can shift the political and legal terrain. It validates the voices of those who have long exposed the violence of “death by incarceration.”
“Injustice has always been dangerous.” – Champagne Song
Today, we are witnessing renewed efforts to criminalize solidarity itself. After a demonstration against the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas, 22 people were arrested. Seven were given federal prison sentences between 30 and 70 years.
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