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
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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
A Life Worthy of Progress
Dear Friend, “My country’s justice system is designed to disrupt your sanity and annihilate your dignity from the very beginning.” – Heather Jarvis Twenty-nine-year-old Heather Jarvis is a mother, daughter, writer, and student currently serving her… Read More
The Pitt Panther
Dear Friend, Prison Radio works with many correspondents who use their stories and voices to further the cause of abolition and liberation. Peter “Pitt” Mukuria is a powerful voice who is currently held at Red Onion State Prison,… 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
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
The Deadliest State
Dear Friend, PA has one of the largest populations of people sentenced to die in prison in the US — 5,467. As of January 31 2021, there are 521 people in Pennsylvania who were sentenced to… Read More
The Silencing of Eric King
Dear Friend, Eric King, imprisoned since 2016, recently received a notice stating that his mail privileges have been restricted for the upcoming six months: stripping him of his ability to communicate with anyone outside of… Read More
5,467 People are sentenced to die in PA
Dear Friend, This is an amazing billboard in Central PA. The billboard campaign is a community initiative by a group called Let’s Get Free that seeks to eliminate life without parole sentencing as a means toward abolition. 5,467 people… Read More
Step Into The Past
Dear Friend, With Biden and Harris officially sworn into office, millions of people were full of relief and excitement. As correspondent Mumia Abu-Jamal said, “An American president loses his hard-fought re-election bid and, within moments, the streets… Read More
I’ll Stand With The Stars, Mountain and Rain
Dear Friend, As the nation explores its quest for democracy, we bring you the voices from is vast failures. We often write to you with regard to the injustices that incarcerated people face, telling you… Read More
A 60% Infection Rate
Dear Friend, Since the beginning of this pandemic Michigan’s grassroots organizations have been asking Governor Whitmer, and the appointed Director of the MDOC Heidi Washington, to handle this crisis with public health and human rights… Read More
Quest For Justice
Dear Friend, In the time of great crisis, there is immense opportunity. The grassroots quest for justice on every front has gotten clearer and stronger. Our demands for a more just and peaceful world will… Read More
A New Georgia Must Address the Old Georgia
Dear Friend, Immediately before the far-right brazenly attempted a coup, the eyes of the nation were on the people of Georgia exercising their right to vote. Our support of Georgia’s grassroots organizing should extend to… Read More
As Long As Prisons Still Stand
Dear Friend, As long as prisons still stand between us and our people, we need to make sure we have first-hand accounts of what is happening behind these walls. And we need your help to… Read More
New York Times to HBO
Dear Friend, Prison Radio has been fueled for decades by the principle that we all need to hear the lived experience of those that are on the inside of US prisons and their families on… Read More
Surge in Deaths and DOC Coverup!
Dear Friend, Every person below is someone’s father, brother, or mother. They died alone. Struggling for breath. PA Dept. of Corrections (DOC) has changed its policy and will now only report the 1st Death from… Read More
Families On The Inside
Dear Friend, My name is Jennifer Szénay. I’m a mother, student, advocate and daughter of a lifer. My passion as a prison abolitionist was born out of three decades of arduous lived experience within a… Read More
In The Spirit Of Compassion
Dear Friend, This unparalleled year has taken so much out of us. Combatting this mass scale pandemic while in the thick of a global racial uprising has been no easy feat. It is crucial, now… Read More
