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 order 100 postcards for $10 including shipping. We need you to reach out to Secretary of Corrections George Little demanding a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grain, low sodium, healthy food.
Please send Secretary Little the follow message:
Dear Acting Secretary Little,
You pride yourself on the health and safety of prisoners and staff. We ask that you step up and be at the forefront of wellness. Proper food can and will prevent diabetes and heart failure.
We ask that you:
1) Provide a “cardiac” diet to those such as Mumia Abu-Jamal who are suffering from congestive heart failure.
2) Discontinue purchases that are high in sugar, trans fats, and sodium.
3) Provide fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains and partner with local farmers.
You can reach Secretary Little by mailing him:
George Little,
Acting Secretary of Corrections
1920 Technology Pkwy
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Email or by Phone:
717-728-4109
ra-crpadocsecretary@pa.gov
![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
Read the full article at i
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