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Dear Friend, With over a million deaths worldwide and DOCs reporting 30-60% Coronavirus infection rates, incarcerated persons have many reasons for concern. Reports from 2020 show that horrific conditions magnified by the impact of the… Read More
This is a life and death situation and we need to mobilize immediately. Congestive heart failure. Unrelenting skin eruptions are causing damaged, ruptured, leathery, dry, exposed wounds. Not one spot on his body is free of dry cracked and bloody open wounds. No longer in an outside hospital, Mumia is back in the prison infirmary in excruciating discomfort and pain. Read More
On Saturday Mumia Abu-Jamal was hospitalized. When he put in a sick call slip and was seen by the SCI Mahanoy medical staff he was taken immediately to the hospital suffering chest pain and shortness of breath. Diagnosed with congestive heart failure he was given a battery of tests. It is unclear how long Mumia was hospitalized, but by Wednesday he was in isolation in the prison’s infirmary. Read More
Dear Friend, Yesterday Mumia Abu-Jamal called from his cell block at SCI Mahanoy, reaching Pam Africa, and letting all of us know that he is seriously ill. He has had difficulty breathing and chest pain, symptoms… Read More
Dear Friend, Since the beginning of this pandemic Michigan’s grassroots organizations have been asking Governor Whitmer, and the appointed Director of the MDOC Heidi Washington, to handle this crisis with public health and human rights… Read More
Dear Friend, Immediately before the far-right brazenly attempted a coup, the eyes of the nation were on the people of Georgia exercising their right to vote. Our support of Georgia’s grassroots organizing should extend to… Read More
Dear Friend, Every person below is someone’s father, brother, or mother. They died alone. Struggling for breath. PA Dept. of Corrections (DOC) has changed its policy and will now only report the 1st Death from… Read More
Dear Friend, It is no surprise that many prisons are built on polluted land that has been torn apart for resources, brutally mistreated, and virtually destroyed. The land is dangerous, wrought with toxins and pollutants. … Read More
Dear Friend, My name is Angeline Etienne. I’m twenty-one years old, pursuing a B.A. in Black Studies and French/Francophone Studies, and have been working on the Prison Radio team since May of 2020. Like many others… Read More
Dear Friend, Now at the age of 77, Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has spent the majority of his years through the most horrific treatment by state. As a Black Panther during the height of Frank Rizzo’s reign… Read More
Dear Friend, Now more than ever, we all acutely aware that trust is a crucial part of delivering public health – how can we follow advice and accept health care if we have no trust in… Read More
Our people inside are robbed of privacy, autonomy, safety, and human contact; why would their health in a pandemic be any different? Because of the poor standards and oversight of prison conditions in the U.S.,… Read More
Dear Friend, On October 7th, after nearly half a century in prison, Jalil Muntaquim is free. A former Black Panther, Jalil was denied parole for over two decades for his refusal to renounce the beliefs… Read More
Dear Friend, Twelve days left in our fall campaign. Will you help us? This year has been a brutal one for incarcerated people. The COVID-19 pandemic has raged through U.S. prisons, shining a harsh light on… Read More
Dear Friend, It’s been an intense and challenging year for all of us. COVID continues to ravage our country, and our prisons and the demand for racial justice is still going strong. We need to… Read More
Dear Friend, Solitary confinement is a tool designed to disempower our people, to cut them off, to silence them. According to Solitary Watch, a current estimate of 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement on… Read More
