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This is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey. This piece is by Daryl Mitchell, number 114031, at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. It is called the full purpose of 22:12 Islam as presented are Daryl Mitchell. And he says the sole purpose of 22:12 Islam is to reveal the fruitful teachings of [inaudible] who studied Islam—the acronym for intelligence, science, logic and mathematics. The Islam we study also means an acronym for I, self, lord, and master, and I, self, lordess, and master—meaning we believe the spirit of Allah. God is in us as our breath. Spirited derived from the words [inaudible] means to breathe. We believe in I being conscious within our third eye, [inaudible] pineal gland in which is ourselves existing, non-physically, who is the lord or lordess, meaning sovereign supreme ruler and master. A lord is a god, and a lordess is a goddess. In the Holy Bible in Psalms chapter 82 in verses 5 to 6 reads: The gods know nothing. They understand nothing. They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth

Environments of Oppression (2:57) Mumia Abu-Jamal

No Hope For Juvenile Offenders (2:41) Torie Chilsom

COVID19 A Love Poem, Karma Death, And Vultures (3:02) Spoon Jackson

In Solidarity With Asian Americans (1:16) Spoon Jackson

Mumia, this is a quick message from Uptown Serg, just to let you know that you have my thoughts and prayers as you battle against not only a system that has unjustly imprisoned you but also other health issues which your illegal incarceration has only exacerbated. When I received news of your COVID-19 diagnosis, I was just as devastated as I was when I received news of Russell Maroon Shoatz's diagnosis. I worry about you every day, because I feel a different kind of connection with you. I could have never imagined that, one day, you'd be my elder, teacher, mentor, friend, brother, comrade, and so much more. When I was kicked out of SCI Hutchinson and sent directly to solitary confinement to SCI Greene, I was well aware of its reputation for brutality and violence against so-called rebellious prisoners. It was 2004, and I was finding it difficult to adjust to the penitentiary. I didn't quite knew who I was, but I knew that I wasn't who my prison jacket said I was. And if I was that, I knew that I didn't want t

What's up everybody. It's Uptown Serg reporting live from SCI Chester. On Friday, March 19th, prisoners at SCI Chester, including myself, spent the day mourning yet another death of one of our elders, Bobby Sims. Since the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into a tailspin, this virus was rampid throughout America's prison system, affecting thousands and killing countless more. Prison officials have been reluctant to protect prisoners from this deadly onslaught. As a result, we live each and every day on the inside under intense feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, and fear. For the past several months, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections led by Secretary John Wessel has been promoting an agenda of reforms, reportedly rooted in a humane approach for prisoners and our families and communities. However, this agenda has been all talk and no action. In fact, hours after Bobby Sims died from COVID-19, a prisoner was assaulted by a guard through the use of [inaudible] pepper spray. As a witness to this inc

My name is Tabitha. Um, I am 20 years into a 24-year sentence for second degree murder and weapons felony, crowded in at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ysiplianti, Michigan—the only women's state prison in Michigan. Now the powers that be will say we are not overcrowded at all, that in fact Michigan now has the lowest prison population it has had in three decades. Which is true: we are no longer stacked on top of each other in every old office, closet, and storage room they could pack multiple bunk beds into But what they will not tell you is that we are still over twice the amount of women in this facility that it was originally designed and built to hold, which brings me to the parole process. First, as a nation, we lock up way too many of our own citizens. We have criminalized being poor, mentally ill, and- and a minority. We have created laws that specifically target these groups and turn them into the only legal slaves our Constitution still allows. The prison system of our nation, our big

"Letter of Thanks." Dear sisters, brothers, comrades, and friends and family on a MOVE! How can I thank you? These, my words, can hardly measure the flood of love that you have radiated on my behalf recently. I am almost—almost—without words, but I'll try.  Thank you, Wadiya. Thank you, Pam Africa. Your support from Philadelphia to France, from points across the nation and literally around the globe, have pulled me from a prison cell and placed me in a hospital room to be treated for a condition I didn't know I had. In the age of pandemic—now, indeed, deeply doubted pandemic—as of January 2021, over 300,000 prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19. Imagine that: in a cell, trying to breathe with a weight pressing on your chest. Imagine an elder man or woman, or even a young person, because yes, we are also in an age of mass incarceration, which day-by-day increases its infliction upon the elderly struggling, unsuccessfully, to breathe, to walk, to be. I thank you all for reaching out and I urge you all, le

Comrade Pitt, I’m Peter Kamal Mukuria, calling in from Red Onion State Prisonin Virginia. Um, this title is called “Stop Asian Hate.” America’s original sin was and is, as self-evident, continues to be racism. But now, unless you live under a rock, we all have witnessed, read about, or aware of the uptick in racist violent acts directed towards people of Asian descent. But as one would imagine, um, the cases of violent [inaudible] attacks are probably much higher. Um, those are some of them, it may seem as though these racist violent attacks merely begun as a direct result of Trump weaponizing the pandemic against people of Asian descent, which to some degree it did in fact play a large role in the uptick of these racist violent attacks. However, I do believe such racism has always existed. Um, America has a unique way of avoiding the truth about its racism in order to secure its pseudo-optic innocence and hide its ugliness and evil from the rest of the world. But the truth cannot be hidden for too long. As m

My name is Omar Askia Ali, a.ka Edward Sistrunk. I'm housed at SCI Coal Township in Pennsylvania. The topic today is the virus. Currently, the percentage of the Coronavirus at SCI Coal Township is small. However, it's still harmful to both the prison staff and the prison population. Adding to the concern of the virus are the parole violators being brought to this facility directly from the street. This concern towards the virus is the fact that, when smoking was committed, the filters and the ventilator system were not secure enough to provide protection to the populous who didn't smoke. Thereby the variants with the virus only enhance the concern, because the droplets from sneezing are air bound. And if the ventilator system didn't keep the tobacco smoke secure, how can prisoners be assured we are not at further risk for variants via the ventilator system with inadequate filters. I assure you, there is wonderment whether the virus was another means for society to rid itself of black people, since the prison

An Introduction (2:30) Torie Chisholm

Incaracation is Violence (3:31) Peter Mukuria

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. Be it also enacted that, upon the passage of this bill, the director of contracts and programs shall implement a program within the KDOC titled “Education, Rehabilitation, and Reentry Preparedness Program.” And the secretary of corrections shall designate all [inaudible] with the KDOC for this program. Such programs should be made available to all people incarcerated within the KDOC irrespective of sentence, including sentences of life without parole and death which [inaudible] should be abolished in the state of Kansas. Once enrolled into the ERREP program, a new social/psychological evaluation will be performed along with the case review of the prisoner’s convicted offense. Thereafter an education/rehabilitation curriculum will be made based on the individual needs

My name is Heather Jarvis, and this is called "Appetite for Academia."  According to the National Reentry Resource Center and the Vera Institute of Justice, at least 95 percent of incarcerated people will be released from prison at some point. By the time some of them are, two-thirds of job postings will require some level of college education. What does that mean for me as an inmate? It means I need an education. I'm serving a 10-year sentence, the odds are stacked against me, I'm a violent offender.  I came into prison with a diploma and earnest eagerness to change the trajectory of my life. I want this time to mean something. Here I am, seven years into my sentence, still on the waitlist for college courses. The prison system won't let me go, they send me and tell me I have too much time, tell me I'm on the list, tell me anything to shut me up. I won't shut up, I won't be quiet, and I won't accept it.  The program offered through Sinclair was [inaudible] Vera's study. Upon reading it, I was hurt to know th

What's going on everybody? It’s Uptown Serg again. We're honoring a true hero. I want to take some time to pay homage to an unspoken civil rights hero, one who made history has set the stage for perhaps the biggest civil rights victory during the 20th century. Her name is Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. 11 years before the world would come to know Rosa Parks, Irene Kirkaldy refused to give her seat up to a white passenger on a Greyhound bus headed toward her home state of Virginia. She was quickly arrested and charged with that offense along with assaulting the policemen who tried to arrest her. Two years later in 1946, a case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States where the justices ruled that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. Irene Kirkaldy never sought attention or fame for what she did that day, but without those brave actions, a large part of the civil rights movement would be missing. For instance, it was Irene Kirkaldy’s bold resistance that day which led to her hiring a youn

Madame Cicely Tyson (2:42) Mumia Abu-Jamal

So this poem is titled “Their God.” Former president Trump claimed to be a Christian, and former vice president Pence claimed to be a Christian. David Duke, formal leader of KKK, claim to be a Christian. This led me to wonder how their gods like, who they typically [inaudible] their knees, meld their hands together, and pray to. My vision led me to their God being a white male with a mullet, yes a mullet. On the weekdays, he probably wears a flannel shirt with no sleeves and a fanny pack to compliment the look. For pajamas, he probably wears the Ku Klux Klan robe, and he's an avid FOX News viewer. Huh? I bet their God rocks out to the national anthem and enjoy the hypocritical lyrics that they're in, and his favorite hobby is burning crosses. I bet their God attended a high school which serves racism in the cafeteria for lunch every day, and hate speech is their God’s first and second language. I bet that God has a tattoo sleeve on both arms full of swastikas and racial slurs for the sake of making intoleranc

Sup everybody, this is Uptown Serg, and this piece is called “Why Prison Radio.” As prisoners approach a full year [inaudible] on an enhanced lockdown, we still find it difficult to galvanize enough public support to make critical and necessary changes to PADO policy. This lockdown has put the prison system’s unwritten policy of inhumanity in full display, once again proving that the true purpose of prison is to torture human beings. People often ask me why I choose to use Prison Radio to voice my concerns. It's a legitimate question. After all, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has a grievance system, and if that doesn't work, prisoners have the ability to challenge our conditions in court. The problem with these processes is that they don't work. They all smoke and mirrors: simple measures of reform put in place to keep prisoners in a disadvantaged position. Therefore, when it comes to prisoner’s rights, our only real hope is for public involvement. However, prison officials have always countered o

Hey there, this is, um, Comrade Pitt, Peter Kamau Mukuria, calling in from Red Onion State Prison in the state of Virginia.  This piece is called “Serve the People, RIBPP Free Food Program.”  So every Friday and Saturday, the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP) launches the free food program. Every Friday, the Panthers, along with community volunteers of North New Jersey, prepares and serve hot meals for the homeless. And every Saturday, the Panthers distribute hundreds of free grocery bags to community members.  These programs were first implemented- implemented Saturday, October 26, 2019. On its October 26 unveiling, the program distributed over 150 bags of groceries to the people. Each bag contained fresh meats, tuna, assorted vegetables, bread, eggs, etc.  This critical program was first implemented by the original Black Panther Party in September 1968 under the leadership of Bobby Seale. Despite having myriad of community programs, the free food program was unequivocally the most esse