Hunger Strike at SCI Phoenix
At least 13 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, the Pennsylvania prison with the largest population, began a 10-day hunger strike in late June that ended on July 4. Their action was in response to the Intensive… Read More
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Running Down The Walls 2021
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It’s my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”—Mumia Abu-Jamal This year, 40 years ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was… Read More
Indigenous Activist and Artist: Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a 76-year-old Indigenous prisoner and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who’s been unjustly held in detention for over 45 years. Authorities claimed that he was responsible for the murder of… Read More
Women Prisoners Continue to Report on Inhumane Conditions
Naykima Hill’s April 14th call to Prison Radio opened the floodgates of commentaries documenting the appalling reality of daily life at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) in Michigan. India Porter, Auroniece Jackson, Sharon Hinojosa,… Read More
Women Prisoners Expose Mold, Scabies, and Abuse
Dear Friend, An email is truly not enough space to describe the public health nightmare that is the women’s prison in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Women’s Huron Valley, WHV). The decrepit building hosts decades old ventilation systems,… Read More
Amplifying Oppressed Voices
Dear Friend, With over a million deaths worldwide and DOCs reporting 30-60% Coronavirus infection rates, incarcerated persons have many reasons for concern. Reports from 2020 show that horrific conditions magnified by the impact of the… 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
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
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
Poisoned Land
Dear Friend, It is no surprise that many prisons are built on polluted land that has been torn apart for resources, brutally mistreated, and virtually destroyed. The land is dangerous, wrought with toxins and pollutants. … Read More
In Solidarity With Maroon
Dear Friend, Now at the age of 77, Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has spent the majority of his years through the most horrific treatment by state. As a Black Panther during the height of Frank Rizzo’s reign… Read More
Trusting Prison Medical Staff?
Dear Friend, Now more than ever, we all acutely aware that trust is a crucial part of delivering public health – how can we follow advice and accept health care if we have no trust in… Read More
The Truth: COVID Inside Prison Walls
Our people inside are robbed of privacy, autonomy, safety, and human contact; why would their health in a pandemic be any different? Because of the poor standards and oversight of prison conditions in the U.S.,… Read More
Quest For Freedom
Dear Friend, It’s been an intense and challenging year for all of us. COVID continues to ravage our country, and our prisons and the demand for racial justice is still going strong. We need to… Read More
Locked Down and Locked Out
Dear Friend, Solitary confinement is a tool designed to disempower our people, to cut them off, to silence them. According to Solitary Watch, a current estimate of 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement on… Read More
