Prison Radio

Hunger Strike Announcement

Ekong Eshiet

My name is Ekong Eshiet, State Number 304103. I’m currently incarcerated at Westville Correctional Facility in Westville, Indiana.  My reason for doing this recording is because I want to notify y’all that as of tomorrow… Full Transcript

Continued Medical Neglect

Krystal Clark

Hi everybody, this is Krystal Denise Clark. Y’all know where I’m [unclear], the WHV the Valley of Death. Oh my God, it’s just so much been going on. It’s just so much been going on.… Full Transcript

Eligible for Medical Release

Jermaine Dickerson

Hello. My name is Jermaine Dickerson, OID number, 226287. I’m calling from Correctional Facility Stillwater, in Bayport, Minnesota, and I’m going to be talking to you today about a medical issue I’m having. So, during… Full Transcript

90 Days Probation For Filing A Grievance

Krystal Clark

Hi everybody, this is Krystal calling from the Valley of Death. Been trying to stay strong. Been really down for some days, my breathing and everything. Dr. Ellison, my guy, he is such a evil… Full Transcript

Fighting to Close This Place Down

Krystal Clark

Hi everybody. This is Krystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064, and here in the Valley of Death, fighting to live, fighting for my life. I’ve been trying to get help. I’ve been trying… Full Transcript

First Amendment Anathema Or Weapon – Part 1

Bryant Arroyo

Sitting in obscurity in solitary confinement now, for over 280 days, in the inferno of the entrails of the Restricted Housing Unit, RHU, at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Pine Grove, litigating my federal lawsuit,… Full Transcript

8 Days In Medical With No Food

Faluch Bigsby

Hello. This is Faluch Bigsby, the author of “God Uses Gangsters”. I am currently at Allen Correctional in Medical, and I wanted to tell you guys to pray for all the people in the prison… Full Transcript

Interview with Ekong’s Mother (Martha Pritchard)

Ekong Eshiet

Before being incarcerated at the Red Onion State Prison, June of this year, he was at the Wallens Ridge State Prison. December of 2023, he was in an altercation with another inmate. By the time the… Full Transcript

Dr. Robert Lacy Confirms Infection

Krystal Clark

Hi. My name is Krystal Clark. My inmate number is 435064. I know a lot of, everybody know who I am. I’m in WHV, the Valley of Death. It gives me hell. I’m just trying to… Full Transcript

Locked Up in OBS

Krystal Clark

Hi,  my name is Crystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064. I’m in WHV [Women Huron Valley], the valley of death. What’s going on in here is not right. I want to call and… Full Transcript

Ongoing Prison Medical Negligence and Malpractice

Krystal Clark

Hi my name is Crystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064.  I’m in a valley of death. When I say this, the valley of death, I mean it.   We are, like I said, four… Full Transcript

Indifference and Neglect at Women’s Huron Valley Facility

Julia Wigley

Hi, my name is Julia Wigley, and the title of my conversation today is “Lack of Healthcare or Inadequate Healthcare, at Women’s Huron Valley Facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan.” I am experiencing deliberate indifference and downright… Full Transcript

Medical Neglect and Death at Wabash Valley

Christopher “Naeem” Trotter

On April the 3rd 2024, at 4 PM, Mark Ron passed away while housed at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. He injured himself on March the 12th 2024, doing his job as a sanitation worker for… Full Transcript

Alarming Medical Results

Krystal Clark

Hi, my name is Krystal Denise Clark, my inmate number is 435064. I’m in WHV [Women’s Heron Valley] (sobs). This is so bold, this is the Valley of Death for real, like this is so… Full Transcript

Please Help Krystal Clark

Bobby Joe Main

Hi, my name is Bobby Main, my number 874670. I currently live in Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility. I’m calling regarding my friend Krystal Clark. She needs help. She’s severely sick, and this prison is… Full Transcript

Kevin Rashid Johnson’s Medical Mistreatment

Peter “Pitt” Mukuria

Hey this is comrade Pitt, Peter Kamau Mukuria, the Minister of Labor for the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party. So I want to leave a quick audio recording regarding my Comrade Rashid, who is the… Full Transcript

COVID Update from San Quentin’s Death Row

Richard A. Valdez

This is Richard Valdez, coming to you from San Quentin State Prison, California. The following commentary is titled, “COVID Update from San Quentin’s Death Row.” On Monday, July 18th, 2022, the East Block Condemned Unit… Full Transcript

Update on Mold, COVID, and Sexual Discrimination

Auroniece Jackson

Yes, my name is Auroniece Jackson. My number is 863572. First off, I’m going to speak on the situation with COVID, like how they’re handling the COVID situation. There’s no structure whatsoever. They’re housing all… Full Transcript

COVID at Women’s Huron

Brandi Lynn Oligney

I’m calling from Women’s Huron Valley. My name is Brandi. My name is Brandi. It’s 594 695.  There’s just, there’s been an outbreak of COVID in here, and they locked us all in a unit,… Full Transcript

Conditions at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility

Auroniece Jackson

Okay. My name is Aroniece Jackson. My inmate number is 863752. I’m calling you pertaining to the things that’s going on in the prison. It’s overcrowded. Officers are corrupted. Mold in every unit. It’s unbearable… Full Transcript

Kansas Healthcare and Rehabilitation Bill Pt. 2

Sheik Bilal Abdul Salaam-Bey

This is Bilal Abdul-Salaam Bey, also known as Charley Hughes, inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas. This is part two, section one of the Kansas Healthcare, Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Preparedness bill.… Full Transcript

COVID 19 and Reconstruction

Charles Karim Diggs

My name is Karim Charles Diggs. I’m calling from SCI Phoenix, Pennsylvania, and the title of my subject is “COVID-19 and Reconstruction.” A cure for all our diseases, including COVID-19, [inaudible] may very well be… Full Transcript

Update on COVID at Wabash

Christopher “Naeem” Trotter

Hello outside world, my name is Christopher Trotter. Again, calling inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Carlisle, Indiana, to update you on the COVID-19 situation inside the belly of the… Full Transcript

The Plight of Political Prisoners in America

Delbert Africa

“The Plight of Political Prisoners in America” by Delbert Africa. On A Move! This is Delbert Africa from Dallas Prison speaking about the plight of political prisoners here in America – especially in light of… Full Transcript

American Prisons as Senior Citizen’s Warehouses

Charles Karim Diggs

Hello everyone. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford, uh, prison. And my number is AK7945, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426. I wanted to, uh, share my feelings about the senior citizens in… Full Transcript

The Chimenti Case

Mumia Abu-Jamal

In years to come, for thousands of imprisoned men and women across America, several cases will mark when they received the right to be cured of Hepatitis C: 1) Abu-Jamal v. Wetzel (Civ. A. No.… Full Transcript

Hep C: A New Death Row

Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Hep C: A New Death Row.” When I left Death Row, little did I know that I was entering another quieter, non-obvious Death Row. Here, I’m not speaking of Pennsylvania’s draconian life sentences, what I’ve… Full Transcript

Hepatitis C Wars Widen

Mumia Abu-Jamal

When our recent hepatitis C case was decided (Jan. 3,2017), we thought that the state, known widely for its repressive penal attitudes and its cold resistance to the principle that prisoners were, after all, human… Full Transcript

SCI-Frackville’s Flint, Michigan Rampant Water Contamination

Bryant Arroyo

SCI Frackville’s Flint, MI rampant water contamination. The captive audience at SCI Frackville erupted with inquiries about the visible and odiferous changes experienced with the running water supply during the week of 6/13/16 through 6/23/16.… Full Transcript

Freedom and Med Care for Leonard Peltier

Mumia Abu-Jamal

For 40 years, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has been in the clutches of the U.S. prison system –The Iron House of the whites, as indigenous people call them – on trumped… Full Transcript

Interview With Mumia Regarding Health Care

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Noelle Hanrahan: Mumia Abu-Jamal, what did you accomplish by your testimony today in court?  Mumia Abu-Jamal: I think I opened a window, not just to what I’ve suffered or even my case, but how the… Full Transcript

Mumia’s Condition & His Reaction to DOC Lies and Stonewalling

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Noelle Hanrahan:  Ready?  Mumia Abu-Jamal: Go ahead.  Noelle Hanrahan: Are you receiving hydrocortisone creams for your skin condition?  Mumia Abu-Jamal: Getting hydrocortisone cream, but I was instructed by the nurse at Geisinger to use it only on… Full Transcript

It’s Torture in Here Too

Kenneth Hartman

The American Psychology Association recently issued a scathing report of the collusion between members of their organization and government torturers as a part of the War on Terror, begun under the second Bush administration. The… Full Transcript

Messin’ With Major

Mumia Abu-Jamal

His name is Major — (his real name)–Major Tillery of West Philadelphia. Although he had a reputation as a gangster, in prison such things matter little. It’s as a jailhouse lawyer that he shook the… Full Transcript

Lethal Substandard Medical Care Provided in the PA DOC

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ (PDOC) best kept secret from the public, is its dreadful alliance with Wexford Health Corporation in providing lethal sub-standard medical care to prisoners. Since the PDOC handed its healthcare sector… Full Transcript

Inadequate Medical Treatment in the Pennsylvania Dept of Corrections

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

In the mid 1990s, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections privatized its free state healthcare sector by contracting with Wexford Corporation to provide for-profit healthcare to prisoners. Since then, Wexford Corporation has received about $2 billion… Full Transcript

Medical Homicide of Prisoners in the PA Dept of Corrections

Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall

Medical homicide of prisoners is a regular occurrence in Pennsylvania’s State prison system. Medical homicide in prisons is largely caused by prison medical personnel’s inadequate medical treatment, non-medical treatment, mis-medical treatment, and intentional medical neglect… Full Transcript

No Escape

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Recently, a group of human rights researchers, responding to letters from Fayette prisoners, found a slew of environmental dangers and threats to the lives, health and well-being of hundreds of prisoners, guards and other staff… Full Transcript