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Mumia on Assange

Dear Friend, In his piece on the release of Julian Assange, Mumia exposes the dark underbelly of imperial war and state violence. He reminds us that truth-tellers like Assange are labeled enemies of the state… Read More

30 Years of Recording Mumia

Mumia and I are both working journalists and were radio reporters before we met. Since that hot day in the summer of 1992, we have been colleagues working the same beat. Investigative journalism is key… Read More

Join us in Northampton

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

Commemorating Attica

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

Krystal Clark Fights Medical Neglect

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

Larry Stromberg Finds Freedom in Writing

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

Black August Commemorates Revolutionaries

In a featured commentary on Black August, Mumia Abu-Jamal states: “August, a month of injustice and divine justice. Of repression and righteous rebellion. Of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the… Read More

Bambi Nicole King Update

“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

Charles Carrington: A Courageous Voice

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

Threatened With A Noose

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

Introducing Antoine “Indy” Walker

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

Veronza Bowers Released!

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

Mumia Abu-Jamal Health Alert & Action 

“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