News & Updates

“Law is politics, by other means.” David Kairys, Temple Law Professor Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition for relief on his 1st degree murder conviction was rejected by the PA Superior court on September 10th, 2024. An appeal… Read More

Bay Area book launch at City Lights BookstoreSunday, September 29th, 2pm PT261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco Join Us in San Francisco!You are personally invited to join the Prison Radio community Join Us in San Francisco!You… Read More

You are personally invited to join the Prison Radio community at our Northampton event! We hope you take this opportunity to engage with our new novel Beneath the Mountain through this enriching panel discussion by remarkable abolitionist… Read More

This week we are honoring the incarcerated revolutionaries that took part in the groundbreaking Attica Prison Uprising of September 9-12, 1971. Hundreds of people living inside the infamous Attica State Prison in upstate New York… Read More

Dear Friend,For years, Prison Radio Correspondent Krystal Clark has been suffering abuse and medical neglect at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan. Now, she needs our help.  Women’s Huron Valley (WHV), a prison approximately… Read More

Dear Friend, Prolific and accomplished playwright, poet, and journalist Larry Stromberg has recently started recording commentaries with Prison Radio. And he’s asking for our help publishing his most recent play.  While incarcerated at SCI Coal… Read More

Dear Friend,Mumia and I are proud to introduce our newly published, co-edited book! Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader (City Lights, 2024) is a collection of revolutionary essays providing a vital core of primary texts and… Read More

This is a Glossary for the Joy James Bundle which can be purchased here. Read More

“It is a policy that is used to cover up something that they are really not supposed to be doing, but they do it anyway. [It functions as] a smokescreen to where, it keeps them… Read More

Dear Friend, We have recently connected with a courageous, new voice in the Prison Radio community, Charles Carrington. Charles is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute (SCI) Fayette, transferred from SCI Rockview in March… Read More

We have recently connected with a courageous, new voice in the Prison Radio community, Charles Carrington. Charles is currently incarcerated at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute (SCI) Fayette, transferred from SCI Rockview in March 2024. I… Read More

Dear Friend,I want to introduce you to a new correspondent who we’ve been getting to know over the last few weeks. Antoine “Indy” Walker is incarcerated in Pennsylvania, currently at SCI Greene where– he has… Read More

Dear Friend, We want to share this update from Facebook, written and shared by a member of Veronza’s family: Some great news After 50 years in prison Veronza Bowers Jr welcome home to a Black… Read More

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” Alice Walker Nobody is coming to save Mumia for us, we must do it ourselves ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE! WRITE TO MUMIA Smart Communications/PADOCMumia Abu-Jamal, AM 8335SCI Mahanoyc/o… Read More

Thank you to our 2023 correspondents!It was over 30 years ago when Noelle and I jacked up our limited credit card and borrowed $1000 to rent a digital audio tape recorder, wireless mics and receivers… Read More

Are you an activist? Are you effective? You could soon be facing indictment…Since 2022 60 Stop Cop City activists have been indicted in Atlanta on RICO and Domestic Terrorism charges for attempting to prevent the destruction of… Read More

Ed Mead Speaks to Noelle Hanrahan & Lolo Serrano Excerpt Part 1 (3:25) Ed Mead Speaks to Noelle Hanrahan & Lolo Serrano Excerpt Part 2 (6:25) Read More