News & Updates

“My fight is to expose the entire system, judicial and prison system, a system of slavery,” says Ruchell Magee. “This will cause benefit not just to myself but to all those who at this time… Read More

“Be honest. If you owned California, would you end incarceration in prison?”  Joadanus Olivas continues,  “Probably not. It’s too good economically. It’s all about numbers.” Joadanus has been incarcerated since he was sixteen years old. Now,… Read More

As the founder of Prison Radio and as someone who has been on this journey for decades, when a person makes a gift, I feel hope and a renewed resilience.  It literally means that we have… Read More

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2023/07/18/abolition-lawyers-radical-vision “The only way that we are going to get people to have a decent, equitable future is to completely re-envision this entire rubric that is suffocating and killing our people,” says lawyer Noelle Hanrahan. More… Read More

In all the noise of the strange colonial holiday of the Fourth of July, Prison Radio keeps liberating voices.  In June we recorded Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bilal Muhammad, Krystal Clark, Torrey Braxton, Maximilian (Ian) Streisel, Joadanus… Read More

Stop Cop City in Atlanta is a vital movement that seeks to stop the construction of a “training” center for the tactics of mass incarceration. This pivotal, nation-wide struggle deserves all of our attention: the… Read More

“Obama was president when I was arrested, then Trump,” Bilal Muhammad said.  “Now Biden will be campaigning for presidential reelection… I felt like this matter would all be cleared up in a day. Days turned into weeks,… Read More

Thank you for standing with Marvin “Shaka” Walker.  Earlier this month we sent you the below message.  We are resending it today because we are at a crossroads.  In this moment we are honoring the… Read More

After much consideration, Marvin “Shaka” Walker has accepted a plea bargain from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office.  He is eligible for expedited parole (because he was a teenager when arrested).  After four decades… Read More

Rising Up With Sonali interviews Prison Radio Director Noelle Hanrahan. https://risingupwithsonali.com/an-abolitionist-lawyer-takes-on-criminal-courts/ Read More

Health care is a right – for those behind bars too! By Bryant Arroyo and Joe Piette posted on May 25, 2023 “This is how they treat us!” exclaimed Bryant Arroyo, incarcerated at State Correctional Institute Coal Township in Pennsylvania,… Read More

Linn Washington – April 4, 2023 When Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons released an inmate from prison in May 2021, she clearly saw how prosecutors illegally withholding evidence of innocence caused that Philadelphia… Read More

I saw Mumia yesterday and he was deeply affected by the blow, the gravity, the gut wrenching disappointment: that freedom will be delayed, again.   I brought him Judge Clemons’ 38 page “opinion.” He read the… Read More

“Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never has and it never will” Frederick Douglass.  We were all shocked on March 9th that Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen would not acknowledge his office’s racial injustice and pattern… Read More

Save the date! March 9, 9 am in Dept 39 (on the sixth floor) of the Santa Clara County Courthouse at 190 West Hedding St in San Jose.  Please join us! Many of you have… Read More

An Update on the Historic Legal Case If you are in the Harrisburg area come support Prison Radio, Human Rights Coalition, Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal and others as we take the first steps towards knocking down… Read More

We are locked in conflict up on the 8th floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse in Philadelphia, arguing over guilt, innocence and 41 years of unjust imprisonment. We know that love is courageous, fearless, and transformative.… Read More

I am overjoyed  that a good friend of ours on the inside, Sergio Hyland, also known as Uptown Serg and the Hood Abolitionist, is finally freed after spending many years unjustly behind bars. Ever since… Read More