Hunger Strike at SCI Phoenix
At least 13 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, the Pennsylvania prison with the largest population, began a 10-day hunger strike in late June that ended on July 4. Their action was in response to the Intensive… Read More
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Running Down The Walls 2021
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It’s my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”—Mumia Abu-Jamal This year, 40 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was… Read More
Indigenous Activist and Artist: Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a 76-year-old Indigenous prisoner and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who’s been unjustly held in detention for over 45 years. Authorities claimed that he was responsible for the murder of… Read More
An Open-Air Prison!
Lack of free mobility, lack of access to prompt medical care, near-constant surveillance, and a lack of access to resources. These are fixtures of prisons in the U.S. and are also the reality of life… Read More
Free Sundiata Acoli
Sundiata Acoli, born in 1939, is a New Afrikan political prisoner of war, mathematician, and computer analyst. Sundiata has been incarcerated since 1973, when he and two comrades, Zayd and Assata Shakur, were ambushed at the New Jersey… Read More
Women Prisoners Continue to Report on Inhumane Conditions
Naykima Hill’s April 14th call to Prison Radio opened the floodgates of commentaries documenting the appalling reality of daily life at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) in Michigan. India Porter, Auroniece Jackson, Sharon Hinojosa,… Read More
Abusers of Justice Exposed!
Dear Friend, “The criminal justice system in America is one of the biggest abusers of justice,” – Izell Robinson, a 39-year-old correspondent who has been incarcerated for the last 8 years. He is currently located in MCF… Read More
Women Prisoners Expose Mold, Scabies, and Abuse
Dear Friend, An email is truly not enough space to describe the public health nightmare that is the women’s prison in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Women’s Huron Valley, WHV). The decrepit building hosts decades old ventilation systems,… Read More
Truth is the First Step
Dear Friend, On Sunday an Oscar was awarded to Daniel Kaluuya for his role in “Judas & The Black Messiah” which told the story of 21 year old Black Panther icon Fred Hampton and the… Read More
Urgent: Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery
“We could not save Malcolm X, but we can save Mumia. We can save him, and we must save him, because we love our Brother, and we need our Brother to help us fight for… Read More
Breaking News Mumia’s Open Heart Surgery
Dear Friend, Tuesday April 20 9:34am: Mumia’s medical attorney’s have received word from the Open Heart ICU doctors. Mumia’s surgery was successful. There were no complications. He is receiving minimal oxygen and has one IV. … Read More
Professorial With a Touch of Pirate
Dear Friend, It is hard to write while crying. But let me try. Mumia Abu-Jamal is awkward and funny. He walks slowly, slew foot. Deliberately. Lumbering. He has a big broad and warm and… Read More
Emergency Press Update Conference Now 4 pm 4-15-2021
Dear Friend, Youtube live stream link for today’s press conference, starting in 15 minutes. Free Mumia!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmN3o8lZ6U Prison Radio will record and archive this broadcast at www.prisonradio.org Attachments areaPreview YouTube video Mumia to Undergo Heart Surgery: Emergency… Read More
A Call to Alms!
Dear Friend, If your new stimulus check could be spared, please consider making a gift to Prison Radio. “Prison Radio is critical to support, please join me in making prisoners heard and visible. Prison Radio is getting… Read More
Amplifying Oppressed Voices
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
Confidence In Your Conviction: What Krasner Needs to Do!
Dear Friend, What Larry Krasner the District Attorney of Philadelphia Needs To Do! We ask that you examine whether you have “confidence” in this conviction. Is the record that you are defending in court something… Read More
The State Wants Mumia To Die
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
Survivors of Abuse
1 in 3 women has experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. According to a study by the US Department of Justice, the most dangerous time for a battered woman is when she leaves. In Michigan, 75% of the women who are killed by their intimate partners are murdered after the relationship is over or as it ends. Read More
Mumia has Congestive Heart Failure & is Covid 19 positive
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
From Our Desk
Dear Friend, As you know, prisons are foreboding and inaccessible. Every day at Prison Radio we learn new handholds, brace ourselves, and continue to find ways to bring voices across the walls and into our… Read More
