News & Updates

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

Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons, a member of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s new Commission on Racial Healing, shares how Catholics can redress racial division by seeking the truth, beauty, justice and reconciliation that are… Read More

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Marvin Pete Walker Jr. (aka Shaka Nantambu) was 19 years old in 1980, when he was charged with murder and sentenced to death. Since then, he has lived his whole adult life on death row… Read More

Dear Friends and Family– With heavy hearts, we write to share that our partner, brother, father, grandfather, comrade and friend, Albert Woodfox, passed away this morning at Ochsner Baptist hospital in New Orleans from COVID-19-related complications. He was 75.… Read More