Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Anybody in a position to bring about reform is probably going to avoid him like the plague because he’s not a respected voice in mainstream society.” I think most people behind bars think he’s trying to promote his own case. But, he said, “I have never heard anybody inside make a reference to him and his thinking. “He has an appeal worldwide,” said William DiMascio, executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, a reform group founded in 1787. That is not to say that most Americans or American prisoners have heard him or heard of him. ![]() His books can be read in seven languages. Despite the constraints of 23-hour lockdown and Plexiglas sound barriers, he became a preeminent “voice of the voiceless,” framing the modern prison abolition movement.Ību-Jamal’s commentaries, a rich baritone echoing off the walls of a maximum-security visiting room, air regularly on 185 radio stations around the world. In the decades since, the former radio and print journalist has authored five books and written and recorded hundreds of articles and speeches criticizing his captors and the government that imprisons more than two million of its people. Half a lifetime ago, Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death for killing a rookie cop on the streets of Philadelphia. ![]()
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