Rattling The Bars

Rattling The Barshttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rattling-the-bars--4799829Rattling the Bars puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it. The show was founded by the late Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and is now hosted by Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, who himself spent 48 years behind bars.

Rattling the Bars offers an honest look at the lives of prisoners, returning citizens, their families, and their communities. With Rattling the Bars, by presenting hard data and real-life stories, we examine and seek to shift public opinion around the misconception that incarceration, punishment, and increased policing make cities safer—the truth of which has been disproven by countless studies. The series examines the history and root causes of the current so-called justice system. It showcases individuals and communities nationwide who are grappling with real solutions to problems created by the prison-industrial complex.

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]]>enNews CommentaryThe Real News Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ed603c58e736958455d397de0cefc257.jpgRattling The Barshttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rattling-the-bars--4799829Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:08:19 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe Real News Networkradio@therealnews.comhttps://therealnews.com/rattling-the-bars puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it. The show was founded by the late Black Panther and political prisoner...Rattling the Bars puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it. The show was founded by the late Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and is now hosted by Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, who himself spent 48 years behind bars.

Rattling the Bars offers an honest look at the lives of prisoners, returning citizens, their families, and their communities. With Rattling the Bars, by presenting hard data and real-life stories, we examine and seek to shift public opinion around the misconception that incarceration, punishment, and increased policing make cities safer—the truth of which has been disproven by countless studies. The series examines the history and root causes of the current so-called justice system. It showcases individuals and communities nationwide who are grappling with real solutions to problems created by the prison-industrial complex.

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]]>trueepisodicSupport the podcast!Returning Citizens Demand Investment in Re-entry, Not Incarcerationhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/returning-citizens-demand-investment-in-re-entry-not-incarceration--73320801
In Part Two of our series on conservative attempts to use D.C. as a testing ground for harsh criminal justice policies, Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa sits down with Chelsea Canterbury and Eric Franklin of Voices for a Second Chance. They discuss the danger of proposed measures—including charging 14-year-olds as adults, increasing mandatory minimums, repealing the Second Look Act, and reinstating cash bail—and explain why doubling down on mass incarceration won’t make the city safer.

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Voices for a Second Chance Instagram
Sarah Staudt, Prison Policy Initiative, “Bad Omens: Reform rollbacks in Washington D.C. are a warning sign for state-level advocates”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Voices for a Second Chance Instagram
Sarah Staudt, Prison Policy Initiative, “Bad Omens: Reform rollbacks in Washington D.C. are a warning sign for state-level advocates”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

DC Justice Lab website, Facebook page, X page, and Instagram
Sarah Staudt, Prison Policy Initiative, “Bad Omens: Reform rollbacks in Washington D.C. are a warning sign for state-level advocates”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

DC Justice Lab website, Facebook page, X page, and Instagram
Sarah Staudt, Prison Policy Initiative, “Bad Omens: Reform rollbacks in Washington D.C. are a warning sign for state-level advocates”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Worth Rises website, Facebook page, Bluesky page, X page, and Instagram
Peter Mayer & Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises (May 2026), “Critical Connections: The Power of Free Communication in Prisons and Jails”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Worth Rises website, Facebook page, Bluesky page, X page, and Instagram
Peter Mayer & Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises (May 2026), “Critical Connections: The Power of Free Communication in Prisons and Jails”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for over two decades, including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and the DTES Women’s Memorial March Committee.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for over two decades, including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and the DTES Women’s Memorial March Committee.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dr. Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of numerous books, including: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; Resisting State Violence; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin, James is also editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader.
Dr. K. Kim Holder is an assistant professor of educational foundations and Africana studies at Rowan University. Dr. Holder earned his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Multicultural Education and African American Studies, his masters in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education, and B.A. in History from Hampshire College.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dr. Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of numerous books, including: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; Resisting State Violence; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin, James is also editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader.
Dr. K. Kim Holder is an assistant professor of educational foundations and Africana studies at Rowan University. Dr. Holder earned his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Multicultural Education and African American Studies, his masters in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education, and B.A. in History from Hampshire College.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dr. Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of numerous books, including: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; Resisting State Violence; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin, James is also editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader.
Dr. K. Kim Holder is an assistant professor of educational foundations and Africana studies at Rowan University. Dr. Holder earned his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Multicultural Education and African American Studies, his masters in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education, and B.A. in History from Hampshire College.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dr. Joy James is Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the author of numerous books, including: In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love; Resisting State Violence; and Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics. Creator of the digital Harriet Tubman Literary Circle at UT Austin, James is also editor of The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings; Imprisoned Intellectuals; Warfare in the American Homeland; The Angela Y. Davis Reader; and co-editor of the Black Feminist Reader.
Dr. K. Kim Holder is an assistant professor of educational foundations and Africana studies at Rowan University. Dr. Holder earned his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Multicultural Education and African American Studies, his masters in Early Childhood Education from Bank Street College of Education, and B.A. in History from Hampshire College.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Alberto Toscano is a renowned Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, translator, and adjunct professor at the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Toscano is a columnist at In These Times and the (co-)author of numerous books, including: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis; and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Alberto Toscano is a renowned Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, translator, and adjunct professor at the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Toscano is a columnist at In These Times and the (co-)author of numerous books, including: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis; and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Alberto Toscano is a renowned Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, translator, and adjunct professor at the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Toscano is a columnist at In These Times and the (co-)author of numerous books, including: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis; and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Alberto Toscano is a renowned Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, translator, and adjunct professor at the Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Toscano is a columnist at In These Times and the (co-)author of numerous books, including: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis; and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.

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William C. Anderson, Prism / TRNN, “Another Way Out: We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.

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William C. Anderson, Prism / TRNN, “Another Way Out: We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Basem Khandakji, born in 1983 in Nablus, is a Palestinian novelist, poet, and journalist. Arrested in 2004 at the age of twenty-one for his political activities, he continued to write from prison, producing a body of work that has earned wide recognition across the Arab world. Khandakji was released from Israeli prison in 2025, one year after his novel A Mask the Color of the Sky won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Basem Khandakji, born in 1983 in Nablus, is a Palestinian novelist, poet, and journalist. Arrested in 2004 at the age of twenty-one for his political activities, he continued to write from prison, producing a body of work that has earned wide recognition across the Arab world. Khandakji was released from Israeli prison in 2025, one year after his novel A Mask the Color of the Sky won the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

W. Paul Coates is the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing. Black Classic Press, established in 1978, specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. A former member of the Black Panther Party, Coates led the effort to establish the Black Panther Archives at Howard University.

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Producer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Videographer: Phil Glaser

W. Paul Coates is the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing. Black Classic Press, established in 1978, specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. A former member of the Black Panther Party, Coates led the effort to establish the Black Panther Archives at Howard University.

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Producer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Videographer: Phil Glaser

Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research explores the intersection of African American history, the history of slavery, and the history of American capitalism. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina and Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of History in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research explores the intersection of African American history, the history of slavery, and the history of American capitalism. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina and Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

B’Tselem, Statistics on Palestinians in Israeli Custody
B’Tselem, “Welcome to Hell”: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (Report)
Mansa Musa, TRNN, “Inside Israel’s Prison Regime”
Ruwaida Amer, Electronic Intifada, “Freedom is the eternal dream”
Aseel Mousa, Middle East Eye, “Jailbreak, freedom, exile: Life of Mahmoud al-Arda, architect of daring Israeli prison escape”

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Videography: Ruwaida Amer, Cameron Granadino
Producer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Voiceover: Danny Bou-Maroun

B’Tselem, Statistics on Palestinians in Israeli Custody
B’Tselem, “Welcome to Hell”: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (Report)
Mansa Musa, TRNN, “Inside Israel’s Prison Regime”
Ruwaida Amer, Electronic Intifada, “Freedom is the eternal dream”
Aseel Mousa, Middle East Eye, “Jailbreak, freedom, exile: Life of Mahmoud al-Arda, architect of daring Israeli prison escape”

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Videography: Ruwaida Amer, Cameron Granadino
Producer / Editor: Cameron Granadino
Voiceover: Danny Bou-Maroun

William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.

Credits:

Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, AL. His work has appeared in outlets ranging from The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, to Pitchfork. He is the author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. He’s also the co-founder of Offshoot Journal and provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast.

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Anna Flagg is a senior data reporter at The Marshall Project and works with data to report on detention, deaths in custody, crime, race, policing and immigration. Her reporting has appeared in The Marshall Project, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ProPublica, Politico, The Guardian, The Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and others.
Shannon Heffernan is a staff writer at The Marshall Project whose work focuses on prisons and jails across the US, as well as sexual and gender-based violence, immigration and mental health, and how arts and culture shape (and are shaped by) crime and punishment.

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Anna Flagg & Shannon Heffernan, The Marshall Project, “‘Why is this happening to us?’ Daily number of kids in ICE detention jumps 6x under Trump”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “Texas’ one-of-a-kind concentration camp for children and families”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Anna Flagg is a senior data reporter at The Marshall Project and works with data to report on detention, deaths in custody, crime, race, policing and immigration. Her reporting has appeared in The Marshall Project, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, ProPublica, Politico, The Guardian, The Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and others.
Shannon Heffernan is a staff writer at The Marshall Project whose work focuses on prisons and jails across the US, as well as sexual and gender-based violence, immigration and mental health, and how arts and culture shape (and are shaped by) crime and punishment.

Additional links/info:

Anna Flagg & Shannon Heffernan, The Marshall Project, “‘Why is this happening to us?’ Daily number of kids in ICE detention jumps 6x under Trump”
Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “Texas’ one-of-a-kind concentration camp for children and families”

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer, and collaborator who has worked at the University of California-Riverside since 200. He is a Distinguished Professor in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. He is the author of three books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime; Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition; and White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide, which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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Mansa Musa, Ratting the Bars / TRNN, “Manifest Destiny never ended: the domestic war for white supremacy”

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Producer, Videographer, Editor: Cameron Granadino

Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer, and collaborator who has worked at the University of California-Riverside since 200. He is a Distinguished Professor in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. He is the author of three books: Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime; Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition; and White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide, which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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Mansa Musa, Ratting the Bars / TRNN, “Manifest Destiny never ended: the domestic war for white supremacy”

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Producer, Videographer, Editor: Cameron Granadino

Purchase Dylan Rodríguez’s book White Reconstruction
Revolt against the carceral world
COVID-19 pandemic illuminates anti-Chinese racism and xenophobia
Why corporate media doesn’t talk honestly about racism

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Purchase Dylan Rodríguez’s book White Reconstruction
Revolt against the carceral world
COVID-19 pandemic illuminates anti-Chinese racism and xenophobia
Why corporate media doesn’t talk honestly about racism

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Producer / Videographer / Editor: Cameron Granadino

Samantha Pourciau is a Senior Staff Attorney at The Promise of Justice Initiative based out of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Host: Mansa Musa
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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Samantha Pourciau is a Senior Staff Attorney at The Promise of Justice Initiative based out of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Host: Mansa Musa
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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Erica Navalance has worked with both Capital Appeals Project and Promise of Justice Initiative (PIJ) since 2015, but joined PJI full time in 2021 as a senior staff attorney for the Strategic Defense Litigation project, focusing on combatting excessive sentences, capital punishment, and other injustices in the criminal system.

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Richard A. Webster, Verite News / ProPublica, What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the “Jim Crow juries” haunting Louisiana
Promise of Justice Initiative, Swastika found on DA file introduced into court, judge grants hearing for PJI client incarcerated for 45 Years

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Erica Navalance has worked with both Capital Appeals Project and Promise of Justice Initiative (PIJ) since 2015, but joined PJI full time in 2021 as a senior staff attorney for the Strategic Defense Litigation project, focusing on combatting excessive sentences, capital punishment, and other injustices in the criminal system.

Additional links/info:

Richard A. Webster, Verite News / ProPublica, What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the “Jim Crow juries” haunting Louisiana
Promise of Justice Initiative, Swastika found on DA file introduced into court, judge grants hearing for PJI client incarcerated for 45 Years

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Maya Ragsdale is the founder and co-executive director of Beyond the Bars, a worker center in South Florida building the social and economic power of workers with criminal records and their families.
Katherine Passley is co-executive director of Beyond the Bars. Passley was named the 2025 Labor Organizer of the Year by In These Times magazine.

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Beyond the Bars website, Substack, and Instagram
Beyond the Bars, The Temp Trap Report

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Maya Ragsdale is the founder and co-executive director of Beyond the Bars, a worker center in South Florida building the social and economic power of workers with criminal records and their families.
Katherine Passley is co-executive director of Beyond the Bars. Passley was named the 2025 Labor Organizer of the Year by In These Times magazine.

Additional links/info:

Beyond the Bars website, Substack, and Instagram
Beyond the Bars, The Temp Trap Report

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Lauren Gill is a staff writer at Bolts. She previously worked as a reporter for The Appeal, Newsweek, and the Brooklyn Paper. Her reporting on the criminal legal system has also appeared in ProPublica, Rolling Stone, The Intercept, Slate, The Nation, and The Marshall Project, among others.
Natalie Cadena is a seasoned education professional and writer with over 15 years in public education and 5 years of experience in professional writing. She is also the executive director of Gravel & Grit, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit dedicated to transparency, accountability, and rural advocacy in the state of Arkansas.

Additional links/info:

Gravel & Grit website and Instagram
Lauren Gill, Bolts, “The prison next door”
Caroline McCoy, Oxford American, “Arkansas’s faulty plan to build a mega prison”

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Lauren Gill is a staff writer at Bolts. She previously worked as a reporter for The Appeal, Newsweek, and the Brooklyn Paper. Her reporting on the criminal legal system has also appeared in ProPublica, Rolling Stone, The Intercept, Slate, The Nation, and The Marshall Project, among others.
Natalie Cadena is a seasoned education professional and writer with over 15 years in public education and 5 years of experience in professional writing. She is also the executive director of Gravel & Grit, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit dedicated to transparency, accountability, and rural advocacy in the state of Arkansas.

Additional links/info:

Gravel & Grit website and Instagram
Lauren Gill, Bolts, “The prison next door”
Caroline McCoy, Oxford American, “Arkansas’s faulty plan to build a mega prison”

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Nicole D. Porter, named a “New Civil Rights Leader” by Essence Magazine for her work to challenge mass incarceration, manages The Sentencing Project’s state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and confronting racial disparities in the criminal legal system. Since joining The Sentencing Project in 2009, Porter’s advocacy and findings have supported criminal legal reforms in several states including Kentucky, Maryland Missouri, California, Texas and the District of Columbia. Porter’s areas of expertise include research and grassroots support around challenging racial disparities, felony disenfranchisement, in addition to prison closures and prison reuse. Her research has been cited in several major media outlets including Salon and the Washington Post, and she has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on National Public Radio and MSNBC.

Additional links/info:

The Sentencing Project website, Facebook page, and Instagram
Lisa Armstrong, Essence, “The new Civil Rights leaders”

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Nicole D. Porter, named a “New Civil Rights Leader” by Essence Magazine for her work to challenge mass incarceration, manages The Sentencing Project’s state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and confronting racial disparities in the criminal legal system. Since joining The Sentencing Project in 2009, Porter’s advocacy and findings have supported criminal legal reforms in several states including Kentucky, Maryland Missouri, California, Texas and the District of Columbia. Porter’s areas of expertise include research and grassroots support around challenging racial disparities, felony disenfranchisement, in addition to prison closures and prison reuse. Her research has been cited in several major media outlets including Salon and the Washington Post, and she has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on National Public Radio and MSNBC.

Additional links/info:

The Sentencing Project website, Facebook page, and Instagram
Lisa Armstrong, Essence, “The new Civil Rights leaders”

Credits:

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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Help us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and...]]>2228ice,immigrant_detention,immigration,jail,mass_incarceration,new_jim_crow,nicole_porter,prison,prisons,the_sentencing_project,trumptruefull‘An accountability vacuum’: How Baltimore is enabling ICE’s lawlessnesshttps://therealnews.com/an-accountability-vacuum-how-baltimore-is-enabling-ices-lawlessnessRattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Baltimore reporter Kori Skillman about how lack of democratic oversight and collusion between local government and federal law enforcement have enabled ICE’s lawless tactics and left Baltimore’s immigrant communities living in constant fear, economic precariousness, and social isolation.

Guest:
Kori Skillman is a Report for America Corps Member covering justice and accountability for the Baltimore Beat. Skillman investigates policing, incarceration, and civil rights in Baltimore. Most recently, she worked on ABC News’ assignment desk, covering breaking news and editing for live broadcasts. A Bay Area native, Skillman holds a dual B.A. in journalism and international business from San Diego State University, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, and an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School.
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Kori Skillman, Baltimore Beat, “Indiscriminate ICE arrests have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities in a constant state of fear and anxiety”
Kori Skillman, Baltimore Beat, “Lack of ICE oversight shows how Baltimore has long been at the mercy of outside powers”
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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/68817814Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:21:35 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaICE raids and the expanded use of expedited removal are tearing apart immigrant families and neighborhoods in Baltimore. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Baltimore reporter Kori Skillman about how lack of democratic...Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Baltimore reporter Kori Skillman about how lack of democratic oversight and collusion between local government and federal law enforcement have enabled ICE’s lawless tactics and left Baltimore’s immigrant communities living in constant fear, economic precariousness, and social isolation.

Guest:
Kori Skillman is a Report for America Corps Member covering justice and accountability for the Baltimore Beat. Skillman investigates policing, incarceration, and civil rights in Baltimore. Most recently, she worked on ABC News’ assignment desk, covering breaking news and editing for live broadcasts. A Bay Area native, Skillman holds a dual B.A. in journalism and international business from San Diego State University, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, and an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School.
Additional links/info:
Kori Skillman, Baltimore Beat, “Indiscriminate ICE arrests have left Baltimore’s immigrant communities in a constant state of fear and anxiety”
Kori Skillman, Baltimore Beat, “Lack of ICE oversight shows how Baltimore has long been at the mercy of outside powers”
Credits:
Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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]]>1866baltimore,baltimore_beat,ice,immigrants,immigration,latino,policefalsefullHow prisons and temp agencies exploit the most vulnerable workershttps://therealnews.com/prisons-and-temp-agencies-exploit-vulnerable-workersRattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Miami-based organizer Katherine Passley about how prison labor, temp agencies, and the 13th Amendment have created a system that traps formerly incarcerated people in unending cycles of cheap, hyper-exploited work. Passley, Co-Executive Director of Beyond the Bars, also talks with Musa about how her organization is fighting to win free jail phone calls, erase millions of dollars in fines and fees for systems-impacted people, and build powerful bridges between the prison abolition movement and the labor movement in Florida.

Guest:
Katherine Passley is Co-Executive Director of Beyond the Bars, a worker center in South Florida building the social and economic power of workers with criminal records and their families. Passley was named the 2025 Labor Organizer of the Year by In These Times magazine.
Additional links/info:
Beyond the Bars website, Substack, and Instagram
Kim Kelly, In These Times, "Building bridges and erasing jail debt: Katherine Passley"
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, "America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?"
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/67545085Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:08 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Miami-based organizer Katherine Passley about how prison labor, temp agencies, and the 13th Amendment have created a system that traps formerly incarcerated people in unending cycles of...Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with Miami-based organizer Katherine Passley about how prison labor, temp agencies, and the 13th Amendment have created a system that traps formerly incarcerated people in unending cycles of cheap, hyper-exploited work. Passley, Co-Executive Director of Beyond the Bars, also talks with Musa about how her organization is fighting to win free jail phone calls, erase millions of dollars in fines and fees for systems-impacted people, and build powerful bridges between the prison abolition movement and the labor movement in Florida.

Guest:
Katherine Passley is Co-Executive Director of Beyond the Bars, a worker center in South Florida building the social and economic power of workers with criminal records and their families. Passley was named the 2025 Labor Organizer of the Year by In These Times magazine.
Additional links/info:
Beyond the Bars website, Substack, and Instagram
Kim Kelly, In These Times, "Building bridges and erasing jail debt: Katherine Passley"
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, "America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?"
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]]>158813th_amendment,debt,florida,incarceration,labor,labor_movement,organizing,prison,prisoner,prison_labor,slavery,temp,temp_agencyfalsefullPeople are dying inside Wisconsin's '18th-century' prisonshttps://therealnews.com/green-bay-correctional-wisconsin-modernize-prison-reform
Guest:
Sean Wilson is the Senior Director of Organizing and Partnerships at Dream.Org. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing capacity building, leadership development programs, and grassroots partnerships. Over the past two and a half years, Sean has led the team in building one of the most transformational training programs in the nation - The Dream Justice Cohort, as part of the Justice program. Sean was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has organized at the state and local level around policy change related to youth justice, voting rights, police reform, and criminal justice.
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Sean Wilson, Wisconsin Examiner, “I lived inside Green Bay Correctional. Wisconsin can’t wait another four years”
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/68689775Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:00:07 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWisconsin’s much-touted prison overhaul plan promises to close crumbling facilities like Green Bay Correctional Institution, but people locked up inside these facilities may have to wait years for relief they desperately need now. In this episode of...
Guest:
Sean Wilson is the Senior Director of Organizing and Partnerships at Dream.Org. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing capacity building, leadership development programs, and grassroots partnerships. Over the past two and a half years, Sean has led the team in building one of the most transformational training programs in the nation - The Dream Justice Cohort, as part of the Justice program. Sean was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has organized at the state and local level around policy change related to youth justice, voting rights, police reform, and criminal justice.
Additional links/info:
Sean Wilson, Wisconsin Examiner, “I lived inside Green Bay Correctional. Wisconsin can’t wait another four years”
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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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]]>2267crime,incarceration,jail,justice,policy,prison,reform,trnn,wisconsinfalsefull'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel'https://therealnews.com/the-alabama-department-of-corrections-is-a-drug-cartelRattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan about his book Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison, and about the systematic corruption and inhumane horrors endured daily by incarcerated people in Alabama.

Guest:
Matthew Vernon Whalan is a writer and oral historian living in New England. He is the author of the book Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison, and his work has appeared in Counterpunch Magazine, Alabama Political Reporter, Scheer Post, Jacobin, Eunoia Review, New York Journal of Books, The Brattleboro Reformer, and elsewhere. He runs the publication Hard Times Reviewer.
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/68496501Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:15:46 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks...Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa speaks with journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan about his book Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison, and about the systematic corruption and inhumane horrors endured daily by incarcerated people in Alabama.

Guest:
Matthew Vernon Whalan is a writer and oral historian living in New England. He is the author of the book Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison, and his work has appeared in Counterpunch Magazine, Alabama Political Reporter, Scheer Post, Jacobin, Eunoia Review, New York Journal of Books, The Brattleboro Reformer, and elsewhere. He runs the publication Hard Times Reviewer.
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]]>2789alabama,corruption,drug_cartel,drugs,incarceration,prison,prisonerfalsefullInside the modern-day plantation: How theater confronts incarcerationhttps://therealnews.com/rattling-the-barsRattling the Bars's Mansa Musa explores how a one-woman play, The Peculiar Patriot, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between slavery and the prison system. The artist behind the play, Liza Jessie Peterson, has worked with incarcerated youth for decades, bringing their stories to the stage and to national audiences. Performed in more than 35 US prisons and filmed at Louisiana’s Angola Prison—once a plantation, now a maximum-security facility—the play became the basis of the documentary, Angola: Do You Hear Us? (Paramount Plus / Amazon Prime). As the fight for abolition and prison reform gains momentum, this story reminds us that art is not decoration—it’s a tool for awakening, organizing, and freedom.

🎥 Watch the full interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDuOs80ya0

Resources

Official site — https://www.lizajessiep.com
Angola: Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison — Paramount+ / Amazon Prime
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/lizajessiepeterson
Voices of the Experienced (VOTE Louisiana) — https://voiceoftheexperienced.org
National Black Theatre (Harlem, NY) — https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org

Official site — https://www.lizajessiep.com
Angola: Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison — Paramount+ / Amazon Prime
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/lizajessiepeterson
Voices of the Experienced (VOTE Louisiana) — https://voiceoftheexperienced.org
National Black Theatre (Harlem, NY) — https://www.nationalblacktheatre.org

Dakarai Larriett is a community leader, entrepreneur, and Democratic candidate for US Senate in Alabama

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Dakarai Larriett is a community leader, entrepreneur, and Democratic candidate for US Senate in Alabama

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Sarah Gentzler, Flatwater Free Press, "A Nebraska inmate went on his girlfriend’s podcast. Then the prison cut off their contact"
More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend (podcast), "What is 'More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend'?"

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Sarah Gentzler, Flatwater Free Press, "A Nebraska inmate went on his girlfriend’s podcast. Then the prison cut off their contact"
More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend (podcast), "What is 'More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend'?"

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Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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Mansa Musa & Dave Zirin, The Real News Network, “‘We are all DC’: Massive protests rock US capital in defiance of Trump”
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “DC residents rebel against Trump’s ‘gestapo takeover’ of US capital: ‘We don’t want a militarized city!’”
Maximillian Alvarez & Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “‘Crazy as hell!’ and ‘Distraction from Epstein’: Residents respond to Trump’s takeover of Washington, DC”

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Mansa Musa & Dave Zirin, The Real News Network, “‘We are all DC’: Massive protests rock US capital in defiance of Trump”
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “DC residents rebel against Trump’s ‘gestapo takeover’ of US capital: ‘We don’t want a militarized city!’”
Maximillian Alvarez & Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “‘Crazy as hell!’ and ‘Distraction from Epstein’: Residents respond to Trump’s takeover of Washington, DC”

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full‘We are all D.C.’: Massive protests rock US capital in defiance of Trumphttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-all-d-c-massive-protests-rock-us-capital-in-defiance-of-trump--67675592Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa and Edge of Sports TV host Dave Zirin give an on-the-ground account of the size, makeup, and significance of Saturday’s protest.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/67675592Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:40:53 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOn Saturday, Sept. 6, thousands of local residents, out-of-state supporters, union members, and concerned citizens of all stripes marched through the nation’s capital to protest President Trump’s militarized federal occupation of Washington, D.C. The...Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa and Edge of Sports TV host Dave Zirin give an on-the-ground account of the size, makeup, and significance of Saturday’s protest.

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]]>330dc,ice,immigration,military,national_guard,occupation,palestine,protest,trump,washington_dcfalsefull‘I believe in our people’s ability to find the light’: Celebrating Black August in dark timeshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-believe-in-our-people-s-ability-to-find-the-light-celebrating-black-august-in-dark-times--67533385
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement website, Facebook page, and Instagram
Mansa Musa & Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “George Jackson’s unfinished revolution”
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “Black August and the fight to free political prisoners”
Eddie Conway, The Real News Network, “Black August honors the legacy of militant rebellion”

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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement website, Facebook page, and Instagram
Mansa Musa & Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “George Jackson’s unfinished revolution”
Mansa Musa, The Real News Network, “Black August and the fight to free political prisoners”
Eddie Conway, The Real News Network, “Black August honors the legacy of militant rebellion”

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Help us continue...]]>731black,black_august,incarceration,malcolm_x,prison,trump,washington_dcfalsefullKim Kelly: "Incarcerated workers are part of the labor movement"https://therealnews.com/rattling-the-bars
Kelly recently joined Mansa Musa on an episode of Rattling the Bars exploring the history of labor exploitation and labor organizing in America’s prison system. To commemorate Labor Day 2025, TRNN is sharing Musa's full, unaired interview with Kelly.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/67545086Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:39:08 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in...
Kelly recently joined Mansa Musa on an episode of Rattling the Bars exploring the history of labor exploitation and labor organizing in America’s prison system. To commemorate Labor Day 2025, TRNN is sharing Musa's full, unaired interview with Kelly.

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]]>1795history,labor,prisonfalsefullHow the ‘war on drugs’ set the stage for Trump’s authoritarianism todayhttps://therealnews.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-due-processRattling the Bars, Mansa Musa and Woods discuss the US government’s case against Abrego Garcia—whom the Trump administration finally returned to US soil from El Salvador in June—and what the government can do to citizens and non-citizens alike when our right to due process is taken away.

Guest:
Baynard Woods is a writer and journalist based in Baltimore. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Oxford American Magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness and coauthor, with Brandon Soderberg, of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad.
Additional resources:
Baynard Woods, Baltimore Beat, “Government’s case against Abrego Garcia is based on PG County Cop who was on the SA’s do not call list”
Baynard Woods, Baltimore Beat, “A Maryland man’s life is at stake. Trump and Salvadoran president Bukele could not care less”
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66914708Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:09:44 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family is going through is just unimaginable,” says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods, “but it is also what we've all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police...Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa and Woods discuss the US government’s case against Abrego Garcia—whom the Trump administration finally returned to US soil from El Salvador in June—and what the government can do to citizens and non-citizens alike when our right to due process is taken away.

Guest:
Baynard Woods is a writer and journalist based in Baltimore. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Oxford American Magazine, and many other publications. He is the author of Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness and coauthor, with Brandon Soderberg, of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad.
Additional resources:
Baynard Woods, Baltimore Beat, “Government’s case against Abrego Garcia is based on PG County Cop who was on the SA’s do not call list”
Baynard Woods, Baltimore Beat, “A Maryland man’s life is at stake. Trump and Salvadoran president Bukele could not care less”
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1578baltimore,cops,democracy,detention,ice,immigration,jail,kilmar,police,politics,trump,undocumentedfalsefullTrans inmates face rape & death with Trump’s Executive Orderhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trans-inmates-face-rape-death-with-trump-s-executive-order--66425010Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa investigates the violent realities trans inmates face in the US prison system, and the impact that Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights is having inside prisons.

Guest(s):
Dee Deidre Farmer, Executive Director of Fight4Justice. In 1994, Farmer’s landmark Supreme Court case, the unanimous Farmer v. Brennan decision, established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prisons are responsible for their safety.
Ronnie L. Taylor, Advocacy, Policy, & Partnerships Director of FreeState Justice in Maryland.
Additional resources:
Amy Harman, The New York Times, “Judge blocks Trump effort to end treatment for transgender inmates”
Kaley Johnson & Sam Levin, The Guardian, “Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order”
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66425010Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:52:19 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPresident Trump’s Executive Order calling for incarcerated transgender women to be housed in men’s prisons and halting gender-affirming medical care for prisoners has put one of the most vulnerable segments of the prison population in even greater...Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa investigates the violent realities trans inmates face in the US prison system, and the impact that Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights is having inside prisons.

Guest(s):
Dee Deidre Farmer, Executive Director of Fight4Justice. In 1994, Farmer’s landmark Supreme Court case, the unanimous Farmer v. Brennan decision, established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prisons are responsible for their safety.
Ronnie L. Taylor, Advocacy, Policy, & Partnerships Director of FreeState Justice in Maryland.
Additional resources:
Amy Harman, The New York Times, “Judge blocks Trump effort to end treatment for transgender inmates”
Kaley Johnson & Sam Levin, The Guardian, “Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order”
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1323civil_rights,executive_order,gender,identity,inmates,lgbtq,prisoners,prisons,queer,sexual_assault,trans,trans_woman,trumpfalsefullInside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave laborhttps://therealnews.com/prison-farms-and-agricarceral-slave-laborJoshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of “agricarceral” farming today. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Sbicca about the prisoners farming our food, the parties profiting from their exploitation, and the ongoing fight to uphold the basic rights and dignity of incarcerated workers.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66151104Mon, 19 May 2025 19:14:18 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPrivate companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor. “If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession,...Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of “agricarceral” farming today. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Sbicca about the prisoners farming our food, the parties profiting from their exploitation, and the ongoing fight to uphold the basic rights and dignity of incarcerated workers.

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]]>1777agriculture,business,capitalism,economy,farming,food,history,incarceration,jail,labor,politics,prison,slaveryfalsefullFormer Black Panther Mansa Musa on how to fight Trump: 'Get organized!'https://therealnews.com/former-black-panther-mansa-musa-on-how-to-fight-trumpRattling the Bars, spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mansa delivered a lecture on his life behind bars and the political struggles of prisoners.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65406827Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:07:16 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMansa Musa, host of Rattling the Bars, spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mansa delivered a lecture on his life behind bars and the political struggles...Rattling the Bars, spent 48 years in prison before his release in 2019. At the invitation of the UMD College Park Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mansa delivered a lecture on his life behind bars and the political struggles of prisoners.

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]]>4068dsa,history,jail,maryland,panthers,politics,prison,reform,resistfalsefullMaryland's Second Look Act clears State House—is relief for longterm prisoners imminent?https://therealnews.com/marylands-second-look-act-clears-state-houseSecond Look Act has passed the State House, and now awaits a vote in the Senate. The bill would allow prisoners to request judicial review of their sentences after serving 20 years of prison time. Advocates say Maryland's prison system is in desperate need of reform; parole is nearly impossible for longterm inmates, and clear racial disparities in arrest and incarceration are immediately evident—72% of Maryland's prisoners are Black, despite a state population that is only 30% Black. Meanwhile, opponents of the Second Look Act charge that the bill would endanger state residents and harm the victims of violent crimes. Rattling the Bars digs deeper, speaking with activists, legislators, and formerly incarcerated people on the real stakes and consequences of the Second Look Act.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65047408Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:05:44 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMaryland's https://therealnews.com/second-look-bills-offer-a-chance-at-freedom-to-longtime-prisoners has passed the State House, and now awaits a vote in the Senate. The bill would allow prisoners to request judicial review of their sentences after...Second Look Act has passed the State House, and now awaits a vote in the Senate. The bill would allow prisoners to request judicial review of their sentences after serving 20 years of prison time. Advocates say Maryland's prison system is in desperate need of reform; parole is nearly impossible for longterm inmates, and clear racial disparities in arrest and incarceration are immediately evident—72% of Maryland's prisoners are Black, despite a state population that is only 30% Black. Meanwhile, opponents of the Second Look Act charge that the bill would endanger state residents and harm the victims of violent crimes. Rattling the Bars digs deeper, speaking with activists, legislators, and formerly incarcerated people on the real stakes and consequences of the Second Look Act.

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]]>1995crime,hb853,jails,justice,legislation,maryland,news,prisons,reform,second_look,sentencingfalsefullPrison profiteering exploits whole communities, not just the incarceratedhttps://therealnews.com/prison-profiteering-exploits-whole-communities-not-just-the-incarceratedBianca Tylek, Executive Director of Worth Rises, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her organization's efforts to combat prison profiteering across the country, and expose the corporations plundering incarcerated people and their communities to line the pockets of their shareholders.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64777122Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:55:15 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe fingerprints of antebellum slavery can be found all over the modern prison system, from who is incarcerated to the methods used behind bars to repress prisoners. Like its antecedent system, mass incarceration also fulfills the function of boosting...Bianca Tylek, Executive Director of Worth Rises, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her organization's efforts to combat prison profiteering across the country, and expose the corporations plundering incarcerated people and their communities to line the pockets of their shareholders.

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]]>2127capitalism,corporations,crime,incarceration,jails,labor,maryland,news,prisons,privatization,slaveryfalsefullPrison slavery makes millions for states like Maryland. What will it take to achieve change?https://therealnews.com/prison-slavery-makes-millions-for-states-like-maryland-what-will-it-take-to-achieve-change
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64504559Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:14:31 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAcross Maryland’s prison system, incarcerated workers assemble furniture, sew clothing, and even manufacture cleaning chemicals. In spite of making the state more than $50 million annually in revenue, these workers are compensated below the minimum...
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]]>1652crime,incarceration,jails,labor,maryland,news,prisons,slaveryfalsefullHealing Justice: The medical industry and mass incarceration w/Erica Woodlandhttps://therealnews.com/healing-justice-a-black-panther-legacyErica Woodland (he/him), co-author of Healing Justice Lineages, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this history, his current activism, and the role of The Real News's own beloved Eddie Conway in influencing his path.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63419610Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:40:18 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPopular representations of the Black Panthers often focus on their armed self-defense activities, but medical services and health justice were a tremendous part of the party's work. This legacy continues today as Black activists work to transform the...Erica Woodland (he/him), co-author of Healing Justice Lineages, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this history, his current activism, and the role of The Real News's own beloved Eddie Conway in influencing his path.

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]]>1701falsefull'Incredibly hypocritical': Hunter Biden's pardon and President Biden's legacyhttps://therealnews.comLast Prisoner Project, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss Hunter Biden’s pardon and what it means for Biden’s legacy.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63338607Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:49:53 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPresident Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. Among these critics are opponents of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration, which President Biden played a personal role in...Last Prisoner Project, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss Hunter Biden’s pardon and what it means for Biden’s legacy.

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]]>1504falsefullAlabama prisoners sued to stop forced labor—a court dismissed their casehttps://therealnews.com/alabama-prisoners-sued-to-stop-forced-labor-a-court-dismissed-their-caseCenter for Constitutional Rights' Southern Regional Office, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the lawsuit and the plaintiffs' ongoing fight to have their case appealed.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63195340Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:30:05 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFive incarcerated people in Alabama are fighting to push forward a lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey, challenging the state's power to punish prisoners who resist forced labor. Despite a state constitutional provision abolishing slavery that was passed in 2022...Center for Constitutional Rights' Southern Regional Office, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the lawsuit and the plaintiffs' ongoing fight to have their case appealed.

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]]>155413th,alabama,courts,crime,incarceration,injustice,jail,justice,labor,lawsuit,legal,prisonfalsefullThe truth about solitary confinementhttps://therealnews.com/new-dc-bill-seeks-to-abolish-solitary-confinementA new bill in Washington, DC seeks to end the district’s use of solitary confinement in jails. Rattling the Bars' Mansa Musa speaks with two formerly incarcerated organizers: Herbert Robinson and Cinquan Umar Muhammad of the Unlock the Box DC campaign, which advocates for an end to the barbaric practice of solitary confinement around the country and to pass the new ERASE Bill.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62758377Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:02:28 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa"Who would want to lock somebody in a room the size of your bathroom and leave them in there for three years...and expect them to come out in the same condition that they went in? That's insanity." A new bill in Washington, DC seeks to end the...A new bill in Washington, DC seeks to end the district’s use of solitary confinement in jails. Rattling the Bars' Mansa Musa speaks with two formerly incarcerated organizers: Herbert Robinson and Cinquan Umar Muhammad of the Unlock the Box DC campaign, which advocates for an end to the barbaric practice of solitary confinement around the country and to pass the new ERASE Bill.

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]]>1881confinement,crime,incarceration,interview,jail,justice,news,policy,prison,reform,solitary,trnnfalsefull2 million incarcerated people could vote on Tuesday. But for who?https://therealnews.com/could-incarcerated-people-vote-for-trump
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62559463Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:06:44 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaSince the 1990s, 2 million people with felony convictions have regained the right to vote, thanks to crucial reforms abolishing felony disenfranchisement in 26 states. This election, these voters could play a crucial role—and based on data from 2020,...
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]]>18872024,election,election2024,felon,government,harris,incarceration,marshall,politics,project,the,trump,votingfalsefullPrison abolitionists could score wins on election day, despite electoral ambivalencehttps://therealnews.com/prison-abolitionists-could-score-wins-on-election-day-despite-electoral-ambivalence
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‘FreeHer’ activists demand Biden release incarcerated women and girls ahead of Mother’s Day (May 2024)
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Prop 6: Could California Finally Abolish Slavery? (Oct 2024)

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62548882Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:13:28 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPolicing and prison abolition policy questions have been minimized in the lead-up to the 2024 November election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, despite their significance in the last election cycle. Yet these ideas have finally pierced into...
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]]>1795crime,democracy,election,election2024,incarceration,jail,justice,kamala,maga,politics,prison,trumpfalsefullNorth Carolina failed to evacuate prisoners during Hurricane Helenehttps://therealnews.com/north-carolina-failed-to-evacuate-prisoners-during-hurricane-heleneSchuyler Mitchell, who recently covered this story for The Intercept, speaks to Rattling the Bars about this manmade disaster and its consequences.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62530599Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:30:29 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaHurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, including its prisons. Yet rather than evacuate incarcerated people, the state left prisoners locked up in their cells without running water or light to survive the storm on their own....Schuyler Mitchell, who recently covered this story for The Intercept, speaks to Rattling the Bars about this manmade disaster and its consequences.

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]]>1693climate,crime,disasters,helene,hurricane,incarceration,jail,prisonsfalsefullUnder Prop 6, California voters could finally abolish forced prison laborhttps://therealnews.com/under-prop-6-california-voters-could-finally-abolish-forced-prison-laborLegal Services for Prisoners with Children, and John Cannon of All of Us or None join Rattling the Bars for a breakdown of Prop 6.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62474859Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:06:26 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThis November, California voters will have the chance to pass Proposition 6. This ballot referendum would nullify the state constitution's exception for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, and institute additional protections for...Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and John Cannon of All of Us or None join Rattling the Bars for a breakdown of Prop 6.

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]]>1806california,democracy,elections,elections2024,incarceration,jail,prison,slavery,usfalsefull'I Am Maroon': The life of Black Panther Russell 'Maroon' Shoatzhttps://therealnews.com/i-am-maroon-the-life-of-black-panther-russell-maroon-shoatzI Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62032721Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:05:27 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFor nearly half a century, Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz was a political prisoner of the United States. Prior to his incarceration, Shoatz fought against US capitalism and imperialism as a member of the Black Panther Party, and then as a soldier of the...I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner.

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]]>1805books,crime,incarceration,injustice,jail,justice,panthers,police,prison,racism,solitary,trnnfalsefullHow Oakland prosecutors kept Black and Jewish people off juries for decadeshttps://therealnews.com/oakland-jury-black-jewish-death-penalty-prosecutors-alameda-california@colorofchange have made a shocking discovery: for decades, prosecutors in Alameda County, California, worked to systematically exclude Black and Jewish individuals from jury participation in order to produce juries that were more likely to support capital punishment. Michael Collins, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Color Of Change, joins Rattling the Bars for a revealing discussion on prosecutor misconduct, and what these findings tell us about the state of the criminal injustice system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62017148Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:35:48 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaResearchers with https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCcUjdXzuKwrJCE-PFyxJXtw have made a https://colorofchange.org/press_release/color-of-change-statement-on-alameda-countys-racist-and-anti-semitic-death-penalty-scandal/: for decades, prosecutors in...@colorofchange have made a shocking discovery: for decades, prosecutors in Alameda County, California, worked to systematically exclude Black and Jewish individuals from jury participation in order to produce juries that were more likely to support capital punishment. Michael Collins, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Color Of Change, joins Rattling the Bars for a revealing discussion on prosecutor misconduct, and what these findings tell us about the state of the criminal injustice system.

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]]>1828california,crime,death_penalty,incarceration,justicefalsefullIn 8 days, Missouri could execute an innocent manhttps://therealnews.com/in-8-days-missouri-could-execute-an-innocent-manMissourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, joins Rattling the Bars to explain Williams’ case and the fight to free him before it’s too late.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/61847122Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:28:52 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe State of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams on Sept. 24 for a crime that even prosecutors now say he did not commit. On Sept. 12, a Missouri judge denied a motion filed by prosecutors to vacate Williams’ conviction and...Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, joins Rattling the Bars to explain Williams’ case and the fight to free him before it’s too late.

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]]>1896crime,criminal_justice,death_penalty,freekhaliifah,incarceration,justice,prisonfalsefullNew report exposes DC police using arrests and tickets to score revenue for the Districthttps://therealnews.com/new-report-exposes-dc-police-using-arrests-and-tickets-to-score-revenue-for-the-districta new report from Fines and Fees Justice Center explores the extent of this perverse fiscal strategy in the nation’s capital, Washington DC. Michael Johnson, Jr. of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this eye-opening report, “The Hidden Cost of Justice.”

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/61210313Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe role of financial incentives in mass incarceration is often thought of in terms of the role of private contractors and private prisons. But the far greater financial incentive in mass incarceration comes from the public sector—the role of police...a new report from Fines and Fees Justice Center explores the extent of this perverse fiscal strategy in the nation’s capital, Washington DC. Michael Johnson, Jr. of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute joins Rattling the Bars to discuss this eye-opening report, “The Hidden Cost of Justice.”

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]]>1659cops,incarceration,justice,policefalsefullInvest in housing, not prisons: California's war on the homelesshttps://therealnews.com/invest-in-housing-not-prisons-californias-war-on-the-homelessRattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa discusses non-carceral solutions to the housing crisis with Zachary Murray and Estuardo Mazariegos of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).

Maria Briones, Cal Matters, "If California won’t back affordable housing funding, well, you get what you pay for"

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/61189529Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:43:26 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe housing and affordability crisis is getting worse, and more people around the country are facing the grim reality of homelessness. Rather than treating housing as a human right and committing to large-scale construction of accessible housing,...Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa discusses non-carceral solutions to the housing crisis with Zachary Murray and Estuardo Mazariegos of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).

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]]>1281affordable_housing,california,gavin_newsom,homeless,homelessness,housing_crisis,police,prisons,unhousedfalsefullWill a new president revive the use of clemency?https://therealnews.com/will-a-new-president-revive-the-use-of-clemencyFreeHer campaign have been building pressure for the next president to wield their clemency powers to swiftly release women serving extended sentences. Andrea James, founder and executive director of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Families for Justice as Healing, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the importance of clemency.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/61057595Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:05:34 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe issue of mass incarceration has been far less central to the 2024 election thus far in comparison to the 2020 presidential race. However, that doesn't make the matter any less pressing for incarcerated people, their loved ones, or the activists...FreeHer campaign have been building pressure for the next president to wield their clemency powers to swiftly release women serving extended sentences. Andrea James, founder and executive director of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, and Families for Justice as Healing, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the importance of clemency.

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]]>17172024,andrea,clemency,election,freeher,incarcceration,james,massfalsefullIt's been 10 years. When will we get justice for Michael Brown?https://therealnews.com/its-been-10-years-when-will-we-get-justice-for-michael-brownRattling the Bars, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of Police Accountability Report join Mansa Musa for a look back on the past decade of attempts to stop police violence, and a discussion on why justice for Michael Brown and so many others continues to elude us.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60974902Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:20:14 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOn Aug. 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. Police left Brown's lifeless body in the hot sun for four hours, plainly demonstrating the contempt of law enforcement for the local community. The righteous...Rattling the Bars, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of Police Accountability Report join Mansa Musa for a look back on the past decade of attempts to stop police violence, and a discussion on why justice for Michael Brown and so many others continues to elude us.

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]]>2184blm,policefalsefullHow poor and working-class voters navigate an electoral system that doesn't serve themhttps://therealnews.com/how-poor-and-working-class-voters-navigate-an-electoral-system-that-doesnt-serve-themWashington City Paper, "Of the roughly 35 million Americans living at or below the $50,000 threshold widely accepted as 'low income,' just about half reported participating in any of the past five presidential elections, according to an analysis of 2020 U.S. Census data. By comparison, 86 percent of Americans with incomes of $150,000 or higher reported casting a ballot during the same time period." Many poor and working-class people understandably feel that the electoral system does not represent them and their interests, but the results of elections continue to directly and indirectly impact their lives and communities. In this special #election2024 episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with RTB host Mansa Musa and David Schultz, a criminal reform and social justice advocate, about why elections still matter for all of us, and how poor and working-class people, and people impacted by the prison system, can navigate the fraught world of electoral politics to get what they and their communities need.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60926890Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:23:21 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe 2024 US elections are just three months away, and with polls showing a tight race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the outcome may come down to voter turnout—and data show that there is a direct correlation between income level and voter...Washington City Paper, "Of the roughly 35 million Americans living at or below the $50,000 threshold widely accepted as 'low income,' just about half reported participating in any of the past five presidential elections, according to an analysis of 2020 U.S. Census data. By comparison, 86 percent of Americans with incomes of $150,000 or higher reported casting a ballot during the same time period." Many poor and working-class people understandably feel that the electoral system does not represent them and their interests, but the results of elections continue to directly and indirectly impact their lives and communities. In this special #election2024 episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN editor-in-chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with RTB host Mansa Musa and David Schultz, a criminal reform and social justice advocate, about why elections still matter for all of us, and how poor and working-class people, and people impacted by the prison system, can navigate the fraught world of electoral politics to get what they and their communities need.

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fullIllegal to be homeless? The Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling w/Jeff Singerhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/illegal-to-be-homeless-the-supreme-court-grants-pass-ruling-w-jeff-singer--60818191Rattling the Bars to discuss the Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, and what it means for America’s poor.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60818191Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:41:49 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe number of homeless people in the United States, either without shelter or in temporary housing, is steadily rising towards a million people. Faced with this crisis, municipalities, counties, and states across the country are responding by...Rattling the Bars to discuss the Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, and what it means for America’s poor.

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]]>1844homeless,homelessness,police,policing,poverty,prison,prison_industrial_complex,supreme_court,unhousedfalsefullHeat inside CA prison killed Adrienne Boulware—who's responsible?https://www.spreaker.com/episode/heat-inside-ca-prison-killed-adrienne-boulware-who-s-responsible--60757595
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60757595Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:55:26 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaA 42-year-old Black woman, Adrienne Boulware, has died in the custody of the California Department of Corrections at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, CA. On July 4, prison guards exposed Boulware to extreme temperatures outdoors...
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]]>1931california,climate,climate_change,extreme_heat,heat,heat_death,heatwave,incarceration,mass_incarceration,policing,prison,prisonsfalsefullSlavery once split up Black families. Today, prisons do the same thing.https://therealnews.com/slavery-once-split-up-black-families-today-prisons-do-the-same-thing
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60625959Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:54:54 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe modern prison system's origins in slavery can be seen in telltale signs throughout the system. The system of chattel slavery had no incentive to keep Black families together—in fact, separation was deliberately used to punish the enslaved. Today,...
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]]>1687incarceration,prison,prisoners,trnnfalsefull'Survival pending revolution': Dominque Conway on education, political abolition, and reformhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/survival-pending-revolution-dominque-conway-on-education-political-abolition-and-reform--6062564780 percent of formerly incarcerated people will be arrested within a decade after their release. The astronomical rate of recidivism reflects two realities: the prison system targets people for political reasons, and fails to address the roots of social problems. Dominque Conway joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her experience leading prison-based mentorship programs behind bars, and how she and others have used political education as a tool to not only address social problems, but transform people into active agents of change within their communities.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60625647Mon, 08 Jul 2024 16:55:26 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOne of the most persistent myths about the US prison system is that the system of mass incarceration helps deter and change harmful behavior. Yet according to the federal government's own statistics, more...80 percent of formerly incarcerated people will be arrested within a decade after their release. The astronomical rate of recidivism reflects two realities: the prison system targets people for political reasons, and fails to address the roots of social problems. Dominque Conway joins Rattling the Bars to discuss her experience leading prison-based mentorship programs behind bars, and how she and others have used political education as a tool to not only address social problems, but transform people into active agents of change within their communities.

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]]>1907abolition,conway,eddie,prisonfalsefullDouble punishment—the truth about supervised releasehttps://therealnews.com/federal-courts-use-supervised-release-to-doubly-punish-prisoners-it-should-be-abolishedRattling the Bars to make the case for the abolition of supervised release.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60377877Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:34:56 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIt's been 40 years since supervised release was first introduced into the federal court system by the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act. Supervised release, which replaced federal parole and probation, is a secondary sentence judges can impose that only...Rattling the Bars to make the case for the abolition of supervised release.

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]]>1916incarceration,jail,prison,supervised-releasefalsefull54 years later, this former Black Panther is still behind barshttps://therealnews.com/54-years-later-this-former-black-panther-is-still-behind-barsforced to return to prison in the late 1990s when Gov. Glendening revoked parole for anyone who had received a life sentence. Tahaka Gaither and his daughter, Tara, return to Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, their family's shared struggle to release Tahaka and live on in spite of the prison system, and what Tahaka's incarceration has meant for generations of his family.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60457326Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:01:28 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFor the past 54 years, Thomas 'Tahaka' Gaither has lived behind bars as a political prisoner. A former member of the Black Panther Party Baltimore Chapter, Gaither was a close associate of 'Marshall' Eddie Conway Jr., who spent his last years as host...forced to return to prison in the late 1990s when Gov. Glendening revoked parole for anyone who had received a life sentence. Tahaka Gaither and his daughter, Tara, return to Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, their family's shared struggle to release Tahaka and live on in spite of the prison system, and what Tahaka's incarceration has meant for generations of his family.

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]]>2198balck,conway,eddie,gaither,panthers,‘tahakafalsefullPrison deprived her of a father—she's fighting to get him backhttps://therealnews.com/prison-deprived-her-of-a-father-shes-fighting-to-get-him-backFamilies Against Mandatory Minimums, separation from her father, Gasi Pitter, has been a lifelong reality. Kept from even embracing her father during prison visits as a child, Alexia's struggle to build and maintain a relationship with Gasi has required taking on the entire prison system. After believing for many years her father would never be released, Alexia is now fighting for her father's release. Rattling the Bars explores this story of a brave daughter's love, and one family's determination to resist.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60414209Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:08:29 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe prison system keeps millions of families from celebrating Father's Day together. For Alexia Pitter of https://famm.org/, separation from her father, Gasi Pitter, has been a lifelong reality. Kept from even embracing her father during prison visits...Families Against Mandatory Minimums, separation from her father, Gasi Pitter, has been a lifelong reality. Kept from even embracing her father during prison visits as a child, Alexia's struggle to build and maintain a relationship with Gasi has required taking on the entire prison system. After believing for many years her father would never be released, Alexia is now fighting for her father's release. Rattling the Bars explores this story of a brave daughter's love, and one family's determination to resist.

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]]>2169clemency,gasi,mandatory,minimums,pitter,pritzkerfalsefullThe prison system isn't 'broken'—it's designed to traumatize Black people en massehttps://therealnews.com/the-prison-system-isnt-broken-its-designed-to-traumatize-black-people-en-massetwo-part interview, this time speaking with host Mansa Musa and his friend Lonnell Sligh, about their respective experiences behind bars, and the implications of the prison system as a deliberate system of mass trauma affecting Black and other working class communities of color.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60316654Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:26:45 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe lived reality of the racist prison system can get lost in the swirl of facts and figures surrounding mass incarceration. Frigid cells in winters and sweltering conditions in summers; the volatility and capriciousness of hostile guards and...two-part interview, this time speaking with host Mansa Musa and his friend Lonnell Sligh, about their respective experiences behind bars, and the implications of the prison system as a deliberate system of mass trauma affecting Black and other working class communities of color.

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]]>2103incarceration,mass,prison,system,traumafalsefullThe American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier w/Ward Churchillhttps://therealnews.com/leonard-peltier-and-the-long-fight-for-indigenous-liberation
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60098513Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:00:03 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaDespite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately refused to free Peltier, despite decades of...
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]]>2199americanindian,cointelpro,leonardpeltier,mansamusa,rattlingthebars,trnn,wardchurchillfalsefullLeonard Peltier and the history of the American Indian Movement w/Rachel Thunderhttps://therealnews.com/47-years-later-leonard-peltier-is-still-not-free
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60049069Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:00:03 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn 1977, American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents, and has remained a political prisoner of the US ever since. Peltier's conviction has long been contested by activists and legal experts. Despite...
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]]>2101americanindian,leonardpeltier,mansamusa,prisonreform,rachelthunder,rattlingthebars,trnnfalsefullThe reality of Black historical trauma makes healing a form of justicehttps://therealnews.com/the-reality-of-black-historical-trauma-makes-healing-a-form-of-justiceDr. Da'Mond Holt explains the medical reality of Black historical trauma, and what kinds of interventions and solutions are required to promote healing as a form of justice.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60239573Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:10:12 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe oppression of Black people is more than just a historical or political question. The accumulated harms of centuries of slavery, segregation, mass incarceration, and racism in all forms have a psychological and medical effect, in addition to...Dr. Da'Mond Holt explains the medical reality of Black historical trauma, and what kinds of interventions and solutions are required to promote healing as a form of justice.

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]]>1675incarceration,jail,prison,racism,trauma,trnnfalsefull'Help us to get better': Maryland is failing women released from prisonhttps://therealnews.com/help-us-to-get-better-maryland-is-failing-women-released-from-prisontwo-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland's only women's correctional facility.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59880853Fri, 17 May 2024 20:56:24 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaCritics of the prison industrial complex have long noted the system's failure to properly rehabilitate those who are locked away in its bowels. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous return to Rattling the Bars for the second part of...two-part interview on the reality facing prisoners in Maryland's only women's correctional facility.

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]]>2256crime,incarceration,jail,maryland,prison,reentry,rnn,trn,trnn,womenfalsefullThe 'Women's Cut'—Maryland's only women's prisonhttps://therealnews.com/the-womens-cut-marylands-only-womens-prisonconditions in the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women are akin to "torture," and the lack of resources and services dedicated to incarcerated women amounts to state-sanctioned, gender-based discrimination. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous, both former inmates in the MCIW—or the "Women's Cut"—join Rattling the Bars, explaining the conditions faced by incarcerated women in Maryland, and what advocates inside and outside the prison walls are doing to fight for justice, in the first half of this two-part panel.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59639868Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:04:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFor decades, prisoners' rights advocates have called on the State of Maryland to address its flagrant discrimination against prisoners housed in the state's sole women's prison. As The Real News has previously reported,...conditions in the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women are akin to "torture," and the lack of resources and services dedicated to incarcerated women amounts to state-sanctioned, gender-based discrimination. Christina Merryman and Ameena Deramous, both former inmates in the MCIW—or the "Women's Cut"—join Rattling the Bars, explaining the conditions faced by incarcerated women in Maryland, and what advocates inside and outside the prison walls are doing to fight for justice, in the first half of this two-part panel.

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]]>1824crime,incarceration,jail,maryland,prison,reentry,rnn,trn,trnn,womenfalsefullSurvivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking outhttps://therealnews.com/survivors-of-sexual-assault-in-juvenile-detention-are-speaking-outLaRuby May joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the class action suit, and the systematic nature of sexual violence in prisons as a form of racial oppression.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59139833Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:44:46 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe prevalence of sexual violence in the US prison system is so widespread and accepted that it's often made the butt of jokes in popular culture. Yet the reality is that countless survivors of the prison system carry the scars and traumas of sexual...LaRuby May joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the class action suit, and the systematic nature of sexual violence in prisons as a form of racial oppression.

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]]>1647assault,detention,juvenile,maryland,sexualfalsefull30 political prisoners' oral histories collected in an unprecedented new bookhttps://therealnews.com/30-political-prisoners-oral-histories-collected-in-an-unprecedented-new-bookRattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, gathers the experience and wisdom of some 30 political prisoners in one place for the first time. Eric King and Josh Davidson, the editors of the project, join Rattling the Bars to discuss their new book and the urgency of the fight to free political prisoners.

Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days Collective, which publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.

Eric King is a father, poet, author, and activist. He is a political prisoner serving a 10-year federal sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He is scheduled to be released in 2024. He has been held in solitary confinement for years on end and has been assaulted by both guards and white supremacists. King has published three zines: Battle Tested, Antifa in Prison, and Pacing in My Cell.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59008524Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:00:31 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFrom Assata Shakur to Leonard Peltier, social movements have lifted up political prisoners as revolutionary examples and fought protracted, often decades-long campaigns to secure their release. Now, a new collection from AK Press,...Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, gathers the experience and wisdom of some 30 political prisoners in one place for the first time. Eric King and Josh Davidson, the editors of the project, join Rattling the Bars to discuss their new book and the urgency of the fight to free political prisoners.

Josh Davidson is an abolitionist who is involved in numerous projects, including the Certain Days Collective, which publishes the annual Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar, and the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. Josh also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.

Eric King is a father, poet, author, and activist. He is a political prisoner serving a 10-year federal sentence for an act of protest over the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. He is scheduled to be released in 2024. He has been held in solitary confinement for years on end and has been assaulted by both guards and white supremacists. King has published three zines: Battle Tested, Antifa in Prison, and Pacing in My Cell.

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]]>1552ericking,incarceration,jail,political-prisoners,prisonfalsefull'Second look' bills offer a chance at freedom to longtime prisonershttps://therealnews.com/second-look-bills-offer-a-chance-at-freedom-to-longtime-prisonerspreviously reported, the state's parole system puts incarcerated people at the mercy of an inefficient, capricious process that is unlikely to deliver a speedy release for many. Now, a new bill in the Maryland legislature could create new pathways to freedom for prisoners who've served 20 years or more behind bars. Alonzo Turner Bey and Desmond Haneef Perry of the MD Second Look Coalition join Rattling the Bars to discuss the Second Look Act (SB123).

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58923234Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:15:40 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe system of mass incarceration in the US offers few second chances to prisoners, and Maryland is no exception. As The Real News has https://therealnews.com/marylands-parole-system-conditions-people-for-despair...previously reported, the state's parole system puts incarcerated people at the mercy of an inefficient, capricious process that is unlikely to deliver a speedy release for many. Now, a new bill in the Maryland legislature could create new pathways to freedom for prisoners who've served 20 years or more behind bars. Alonzo Turner Bey and Desmond Haneef Perry of the MD Second Look Coalition join Rattling the Bars to discuss the Second Look Act (SB123).

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]]>1962incarceration,jail,maryland,massincarceration,prison,reform,trn,trnnfalsefullPrisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging 'modern-day slavery'https://therealnews.com/prisoners-unions-sue-alabama-alleging-modern-day-slavery
Jacob Morrison is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, and the president of the North Alabama Labor Council. Adam Keller is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 900. Together, they host The Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s only union radio talk show.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58829340Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:06:35 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaA group of current and former prisoners have sued the state of Alabama with the support of two unions who have signed on as co-plaintiffs, the Union of Southern Service Workers, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The lawsuit claims...
Jacob Morrison is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, and the president of the North Alabama Labor Council. Adam Keller is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 900. Together, they host The Valley Labor Report, Alabama’s only union radio talk show.

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]]>2404convictleasing,jail,lawsuit,massincarceration,prisonlabor,prisons,prisonslaveryfalsefullThis is why coming home from prison is so difficult for so manyhttps://therealnews.com/this-is-why-coming-home-from-prison-is-so-difficult-for-so-manyHope for Prisoners in Nevada are working to provide returning citizens with the resources and support they need to rebuild their lives and maintain their freedom. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Jon Ponder, founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners, about why returning from prison is so difficult for so many, and what it takes to “empower the formerly incarcerated and their families to create a successful future.”

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58743568Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:35:17 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe US has one of the highest prisoner recidivism rates in the world: over 70% of incarcerated people who are released from prison in the US will be rearrested within five years of their release date. That is not an accident. Our system of mass...Hope for Prisoners in Nevada are working to provide returning citizens with the resources and support they need to rebuild their lives and maintain their freedom. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Jon Ponder, founder and CEO of Hope for Prisoners, about why returning from prison is so difficult for so many, and what it takes to “empower the formerly incarcerated and their families to create a successful future.”

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]]>1511mass-incarceration,prison,reentryfalsefullFixing Baltimore's 'downward spiral' of poverty, disinvestment, and over-policinghttps://therealnews.com/baltimores-downward-spiral-of-poverty-disinvestment-and-over-policing$200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the "downward spiral" low-income, predominately Black and Brown communities across Maryland are forced into by this imbalance in public expenditures. T. Shekhinah Braveheart and Ryan King of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the report's findings in Baltimore, and how an alternative model of community investment could combat poverty and crime without resorting to further policing.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58660121Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:55:47 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe crisis of mass incarceration is about more than the conduct of police officers—it's a question of public expenditures, and how pouring taxpayer money into incarceration at the expense of other, more humanizing ventures takes a toll on society at...$200 billion each year on prisons, jails, and police. Now, a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, "The Right Investment 2.0", takes a detailed look at the "downward spiral" low-income, predominately Black and Brown communities across Maryland are forced into by this imbalance in public expenditures. T. Shekhinah Braveheart and Ryan King of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the report's findings in Baltimore, and how an alternative model of community investment could combat poverty and crime without resorting to further policing.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58578249Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:18:05 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaBlack people have produced their own historical accounts as long as Black people have been in America. From oral tradition to the first publications of Phyllis Wheatley, to the many Black publishing houses and newspapers that blossomed after...Black Chronicle, and Carla Wilson join Rattling the Bars to discuss the new book.

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]]>1677blackhistory,blackhistorymonth,prison,slavery,trnnfalsefullWisconsin's prison lockdowns: No visitors, few showers, and no end in sighthttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wisconsin-s-prison-lockdowns-no-visitors-few-showers-and-no-end-in-sight--58492572WISDOM, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the crisis in Wisconsin prisons and the clear solution Evers has ignored so far: to wield his authority as Governor to reduce the state's prison population.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58492572Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:55:06 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaLast June, the state of Wisconsin placed two correctional institutions in Green Bay and Waupun on lockdown due to concerns about overcrowding and the quality of facilities. In the ensuing months, several other Wisconsin state prisons have been...WISDOM, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the crisis in Wisconsin prisons and the clear solution Evers has ignored so far: to wield his authority as Governor to reduce the state's prison population.

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]]>1604abolition,confinement,evers,incarceration,jail,mass-incarceration,news,prison,reform,rtb,trn,trnn,waupun,wisconsinfalsefullA prison librarian's efforts to humanize the stories of incarcerated peoplehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-prison-librarian-s-efforts-to-humanize-the-stories-of-incarcerated-people--58423158For the Least of These. Winn joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on his book and the humanity that clings on in prisons in spite of constant repression.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58423158Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:48:11 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe nightmarish reality of the prison industrial complex depends on a vast array of stereotypes and tropes about incarcerated people that have proliferated through our culture. From the myth of the ‘superpredator’ to other racist and anti-poor...For the Least of These. Winn joins Rattling the Bars for a discussion on his book and the humanity that clings on in prisons in spite of constant repression.

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]]>2473abolition,confinement,cops,detention,incarceration,jail,library,mansa,news,panthers,police,prison,prisoner,racism,real,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefull'No way a human should be': Abolishing solitary confinement in DChttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-way-a-human-should-be-abolishing-solitary-confinement-in-dc--58309079Unlock the Box campaign in DC, joins Rattling the Bars to speak on his personal experiences with solitary confinement and the campaign to abolish it in DC.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58309079Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:22:55 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRegarded by many as a form of torture, abolishing solitary confinement has become a goal for many activists for prison reform and abolition. In Washington, DC, the End Solitary Confinement 2023 bill would seek to end the practice in District...Unlock the Box campaign in DC, joins Rattling the Bars to speak on his personal experiences with solitary confinement and the campaign to abolish it in DC.

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]]>173513th,13th-amendment,abolition,confinement,dc,incarceration,jail,labor,mass-incarceration,news,prison,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trn,trnnfalsefullThree former Maryland prisoners explain the state's disastrous parole systemhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-former-maryland-prisoners-explain-the-state-s-disastrous-parole-system--58211668clamoring for parole reform, Maryland's legislature has the opportunity to address the state's soul-crushing parole system this legislative session. Al Brown and Tyrone Litte, who each served decades in Maryland's prison system, join Rattling the Bars to share their firsthand experiences with the parole system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58211668Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:00:41 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaLess than 15 percent of parole-eligible prisoners serving life sentences in Maryland have been released since 2015. With advocates across the state https://therealnews.com/marylands-parole-system-conditions-people-for-despair, Maryland's legislature...clamoring for parole reform, Maryland's legislature has the opportunity to address the state's soul-crushing parole system this legislative session. Al Brown and Tyrone Litte, who each served decades in Maryland's prison system, join Rattling the Bars to share their firsthand experiences with the parole system.

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]]>1952incarceration,jail,maryland,news,parole,prison,real,rtb,trnnfalsefullThe 13th Amendment legalizes slavery—and many states have their own versionhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-13th-amendment-legalizes-slavery-and-many-states-have-their-own-version--58051569Prisoners with Children—All of Us or None join Rattling the Bars to discuss the years-long campaign to eliminate the exception clauses in California.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58051569Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:03:18 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of "involuntary servitude" as punishment for a crime. The modern system of mass incarceration depends on this exception to justify...Prisoners with Children—All of Us or None join Rattling the Bars to discuss the years-long campaign to eliminate the exception clauses in California.

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]]>183413th,13th-amendment,confinement,incarceration,jail,labor,mass-incarceration,prison,rtb,slavery,solitaryfalsefullFor incarcerated people, the holidays are a reminder of captivityhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/for-incarcerated-people-the-holidays-are-a-reminder-of-captivity--57908659
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57908659Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:57:26 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe holiday season is a time to be spent with loved ones—yet for the nearly 2 million people incarcerated in US jails and prisons at any given time, that's not a possibility. Rattling the Bars host Mansa Musa and TRNN Editor-In-Chief Maximillian...
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]]>1968christmas,confinement,holidays,incarceration,jail,mass-incarceration,news,prison,rtb,solitary,trn,trnnfalsefullMalik Rahim: Climate justice and the prisoners' struggle go togetherhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/malik-rahim-climate-justice-and-the-prisoners-struggle-go-together--57821615
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57821615Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:04:41 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMalik Rahim, a former Black Panther and long-time prison and housing activist, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the conditions faced by prisoners at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, more commonly known as "Angola." Rahim also delves into...
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]]>2321angola,climate,environment,incarceration,jail,news,prison,prisoners,racism,real,rtb,trn,trnnfalsefullBaton Rouge cops tortured detainees at 'Brave Cave' black sitehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/baton-rouge-cops-tortured-detainees-at-brave-cave-black-site--57529108PREACH joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the long history of Baton Rouge police terror against the local community, and what efforts are being made to fight for justice.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57529108Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:38:42 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFour Louisiana police officers in the city of Baton Rouge are facing charges in connection to the torture and sexual abuse of a detainee at a secret torture warehouse known as the 'Brave Cave.' Two lawsuits and the separate testimony of a third victim...PREACH joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the long history of Baton Rouge police terror against the local community, and what efforts are being made to fight for justice.

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]]>1883baton-rouge,brave-cave,cops,incarceration,jail,mass-incarceration,news,police,prison,rtb,trn,trnnfalsefullMaryland's parole system 'conditions people for despair'https://www.spreaker.com/episode/maryland-s-parole-system-conditions-people-for-despair--57031367Safe at Home: Improving Maryland’s Parole Release Decision-Making, identifies the problems with the system and attempts to map solutions. Tara Gaither, daughter of Thomas Gaither, and Shekhinah Braveheart of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars to discuss Maryland's parole system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57031367Tue, 03 Oct 2023 01:09:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThomas "Tahaka" Gaither was out on parole when then-Gov. Glendening of Maryland revoked parole for all persons convicted of a life sentence. Since the late 1990s, Gaither has remained incarcerated—despite once having been deemed fit for release. His...Safe at Home: Improving Maryland’s Parole Release Decision-Making, identifies the problems with the system and attempts to map solutions. Tara Gaither, daughter of Thomas Gaither, and Shekhinah Braveheart of the Justice Policy Institute join Rattling the Bars to discuss Maryland's parole system.

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]]>2206incarceration,jail,news,parole,prison,real.,rtb,trnnfalsefullEl Salvador's 'gang crackdown' and the permanent state of exceptionhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/el-salvador-s-gang-crackdown-and-the-permanent-state-of-exception--56918694
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56918694Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:08:24 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaEl Salvador's Nayib Bukele has now suspended the rule of law in his country for 18 months, during which time more than 70,000 people have been rounded up and imprisoned without trial in the naming of stopping crime. While Bukele's approval rating has...
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]]>2018bukele,confinement,detention,fascism,fascist,gangs,incarceration,jail,nayib,prison,prisoner,real,rnn,rtb,salvador,trn,trnnfalsefullThe Cop City RICO charges and America's road to fascismhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cop-city-rico-charges-and-america-s-road-to-fascism--56844519
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56844519Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:09:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter two years of resistance against the proposed "Atlanta Public Safety Training Center," more commonly known as Cop City, more than 60 activists associated with the movement have been indicted on RICO charges. The push to build Cop City and the...
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]]>2012atlanta,cop,copcity,news,par,police,rico,rtb,taya,training,trnnfalsefullAlabama's 'astonishingly cruel,' untested plan to kill Kenneth Smithhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alabama-s-astonishingly-cruel-untested-plan-to-kill-kenneth-smith--56778745Lee Hedgepeth joins Rattling the Bars.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56778745Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:00:21 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWhile the death penalty has been abolished in 23 states and Washington, DC, other states are doubling down on the barbaric practice of capital punishment. Idaho wants to bring back firing squads, and now the state of Alabama is pushing to become the...Lee Hedgepeth joins Rattling the Bars.

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]]>1618death,jail,life,news,penalty,prison,punishment,rtb,trnnfalsefullEd Poindexter has been a political prisoner for 52 years. His family just wants him to come home.https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ed-poindexter-has-been-a-political-prisoner-for-52-years-his-family-just-wants-him-to-come-home--56632559
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56632559Wed, 30 Aug 2023 03:22:29 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter 52 years of incarceration, Edward Alan Poindexter is among the longest serving political prisoners in US and world history. Originally part of the "Omaha Two," Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, both leaders of the Omaha Black Panthers, were...
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]]>1675abolition,confinement,cops,detention,incarceration,jail,mansa,news,panthers,police,prison,prisoner,racism,real,reform,rnn,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullWho was George Jackson? America's prophetic revolutionaryhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-was-george-jackson-america-s-prophetic-revolutionary--56556791
At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station. Jackson spent the remainder of his short life behind bars, but it was from the confines of prison that he became one of the most powerful revolutionary voices and one of greatest living threats to the American capitalist system. Jackson’s autobiographical book of prison letters, titled Soledad Brother, would become a touchstone of Black revolutionary thought for generations of radicals within and outside the prison-industrial complex. As Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party and one of the organization's principal thinkers, Jackson's philosophy and strategy for revolution lit the path to armed struggle taken by the Black Liberation Army and other organizations. On the 52nd anniversary of his killing by prison authorities, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with host Mansa Musa about Jackson's towering life and example, and about the impact Jackson’s work had on Mansa, on our departed mentor and fellow political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and on their incarcerated comrades.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56556791Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:48:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/george-jacksons-unfinished-revolution At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station....
At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station. Jackson spent the remainder of his short life behind bars, but it was from the confines of prison that he became one of the most powerful revolutionary voices and one of greatest living threats to the American capitalist system. Jackson’s autobiographical book of prison letters, titled Soledad Brother, would become a touchstone of Black revolutionary thought for generations of radicals within and outside the prison-industrial complex. As Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party and one of the organization's principal thinkers, Jackson's philosophy and strategy for revolution lit the path to armed struggle taken by the Black Liberation Army and other organizations. On the 52nd anniversary of his killing by prison authorities, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with host Mansa Musa about Jackson's towering life and example, and about the impact Jackson’s work had on Mansa, on our departed mentor and fellow political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and on their incarcerated comrades.

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]]>2016assassination,black_august,black_panthers,black_radical,eddie_conway,george_jackson,mansa_musa,prison,prison_industrial_complex,prisons,revolutionary,san_quentin,soledad_brotherfalsefullJuvenile sentencing in the US is barbaric, racist, and ineffectivehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/juvenile-sentencing-in-the-us-is-barbaric-racist-and-ineffective--56467611
“The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,” the Juvenile Law Center notes. “Sentencing children to die in prison is condemned by international law. For children or adults, a sentence of life without parole is cruel, inhumane, and denies the individual’s humanity. For children, the sentence also defies law and research confirming that youth are different than adults and must be treated differently by our legal system.” While many individual states have banned the practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole, 22 states still permit it, and the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court has shown a troubling openness to overturning past precedents regarding juvenile sentencing. Abd’Allah Wali Lateef, Deputy Director with the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, joins Rattling the Bars to talk about the sordid history behind youth sentencing practices in the US and about the state of the fight to end juvenile life without parole.

Abd’Allah Wali Lateef is Deputy Director of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. In spite of being condemned to life without possibility of parole at 17 years of age—and without hope or expectation of ever being released from prison—Lateef devoted himself to personal and collective transformation, serving as a mentor, religious advisor, faith leader, and reform advocate. He also studied legal jurisprudence and worked as a paralegal at Paraprofessional Law Clinic, Inc. Lateef was released from prison in the fall of 2017.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56467611Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:12:29 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/juvenile-sentencing-in-the-us-is-barbaric-racist-and-ineffective “The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,” the Juvenile...
“The United States is the only country in the world that permits youth to be sentenced to life without parole,” the Juvenile Law Center notes. “Sentencing children to die in prison is condemned by international law. For children or adults, a sentence of life without parole is cruel, inhumane, and denies the individual’s humanity. For children, the sentence also defies law and research confirming that youth are different than adults and must be treated differently by our legal system.” While many individual states have banned the practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to life without parole, 22 states still permit it, and the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court has shown a troubling openness to overturning past precedents regarding juvenile sentencing. Abd’Allah Wali Lateef, Deputy Director with the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, joins Rattling the Bars to talk about the sordid history behind youth sentencing practices in the US and about the state of the fight to end juvenile life without parole.

Abd’Allah Wali Lateef is Deputy Director of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. In spite of being condemned to life without possibility of parole at 17 years of age—and without hope or expectation of ever being released from prison—Lateef devoted himself to personal and collective transformation, serving as a mentor, religious advisor, faith leader, and reform advocate. He also studied legal jurisprudence and worked as a paralegal at Paraprofessional Law Clinic, Inc. Lateef was released from prison in the fall of 2017.

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2022falsefullNebraska teen, mother imprisoned for abortion is just a taste of post-Roe Americahttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nebraska-teen-mother-imprisoned-for-abortion-is-just-a-taste-of-post-roe-america--56393759
Emma Roth is a staff attorney with Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit advocacy group that defends the civil rights of women and pregnant people.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56393759Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:28:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe shocking arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess and her mother, Jessica Burgess, has now become one of the best-known cases of abortion criminalization in post-Roe America. But the Burgess case is just the tip of...
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]]>1288abortion,dobbs,feminism,incarceration,jail,prison,real,rnn,roe,scotus,trn,trump,womenfalsefullFormer Guantanamo detainees were deported to Kazakhstan, UAEhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/former-guantanamo-detainees-were-deported-to-kazakhstan-uae--56323941
Elise Swain is photo editor of The Intercept.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56323941Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:12:53 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe revelations of widespread torture of detainees at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, rattled the American conscience during the Bush Jr. administration. Two decades later, detainments at Guantanamo continue, but the public has largely...
Elise Swain is photo editor of The Intercept.

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]]>1927911,9/11,abolition,black-site,bush,confinement,detainees,detention,guantanamo,incarceration,news,prison,prisoner,reform,rtb,terrorism,warfalsefullInside the fight to expand addiction care in Alaskahttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inside-the-fight-to-expand-addiction-care-in-alaska--56199948
Kara Nelson is currently the Chief Operating Officer at True North Recovery, and a Governor-appointed board member of the Alaska Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. Since 2016, Kara has served as a chaplain for the Alaska Department of Corrections.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56199948Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:03:57 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMass incarceration as we know it today owes much of its existence to the political rationale created by the War on Drugs. Although proffered as a solution to the public health crisis of drug addiction, prisons actually provide little in the way of...
Kara Nelson is currently the Chief Operating Officer at True North Recovery, and a Governor-appointed board member of the Alaska Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. Since 2016, Kara has served as a chaplain for the Alaska Department of Corrections.

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]]>1590abolition,addiction,alaska,bail,incarceration,jail,prison,racism,reform,rtb,sentencing,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullHow Maryland discriminates against women prisonershttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-maryland-discriminates-against-women-prisoners--56128586Maryland Justice Project, joins Rattling the Bars to break down the significance of the pre-release center, why the state government is dragging its feet, and the real impact official inaction is having on women in The Cut.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56128586Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:37:30 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaJessup, Maryland is home to the state's only women's prison, the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, commonly known as "The Cut". For years, advocates fought for a women's pre-release center, which would house prisoners eligible to go out on...Maryland Justice Project, joins Rattling the Bars to break down the significance of the pre-release center, why the state government is dragging its feet, and the real impact official inaction is having on women in The Cut.

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]]>1616abolition,confinement,cops,detention,incarceration,jail,jessup,mansa,maryland,news,panthers,police,pre-release,prison,prisoner,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,trnnfalsefullTrump's indictment and America's two legal systemshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trump-s-indictment-and-america-s-two-legal-systems--56051959Rattling the Bars to discuss Trump's indictment and how it illustrates the two legal systems that exist side-by-side in the land of the free: one for the rich and white, and another for the poor that disproportionately targets Black and Brown people.

Dyjuan Tatro is a publicly recognized legal reform advocate and strategist who has worked to bridge the gap between policy and practice. As an alumnus of Bard Prison Initiative, he has leveraged his education and experience to shift public policy in favor of expanding and incentivizing college in prison.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56051959Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:49:32 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFormer President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts in New York State and an additional 37 felony federal charges. None of this prevents him from freely campaigning for President and appearing before the media. Yet the reality for most people...Rattling the Bars to discuss Trump's indictment and how it illustrates the two legal systems that exist side-by-side in the land of the free: one for the rich and white, and another for the poor that disproportionately targets Black and Brown people.

Dyjuan Tatro is a publicly recognized legal reform advocate and strategist who has worked to bridge the gap between policy and practice. As an alumnus of Bard Prison Initiative, he has leveraged his education and experience to shift public policy in favor of expanding and incentivizing college in prison.

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]]>1735bard_prison_initiative,criminal_justice,donald_trump,dyjuan_tatro,election_2024,indictment,mass_incarceration,new_york,presidential_election,prison_industrial_complex,prisons,racism,rikers,rikers_island,trump,trump_indictmentfalsefullTaking the school-to-prison pipeline fight to state legislatureshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taking-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-fight-to-state-legislatures--55157098
Keturah Herron (D) represents District 42 in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/55157098Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:15:20 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe system of mass incarceration extends into the public education system. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, policies that criminalize youth and their families, from the presence of police in schools to discriminatory and punitive practices that...
Keturah Herron (D) represents District 42 in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

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]]>1183abolition,carceral,confinement,cops,detention,incarceration,jail,mansa,news,panthers,police,prison,prisoner,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullA Juneteenth call to close prisonshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-juneteenth-call-to-close-prisons--54525072
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54525072Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:40:03 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaJuneteenth has become a federal holiday—yet prison slavery under the 13th Amendment continues. Uprooting the prison industrial complex is vital to completing the abolition of slavery. In California, the Californians United for a Responsible Budget...
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]]>148413th,blm,carceral,incarceration,jail,juneteenth,news,prison,prison-industrial-complex,prisons,racism,reform,slavery,trnnfalsefullUS Sentencing Commission could reduce prison time for thousandshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/us-sentencing-commission-could-reduce-prison-time-for-thousands--54302919
Mary Price is General Counsel of FAMM. She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.

Public comments can be made through FAMM’s website. The deadline for submitting public comments is June 23, 2023.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54302919Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:13:57 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOn April 27, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission submitted to Congress amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines that would recommend lower sentences for certain defendants. If these changes are applied retroactively, some 18,775...
Mary Price is General Counsel of FAMM. She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.

Public comments can be made through FAMM’s website. The deadline for submitting public comments is June 23, 2023.

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fullFormer prisoner of 48 years reviews John Oliver's report on solitary confinementhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/former-prisoner-of-48-years-reviews-john-oliver-s-report-on-solitary-confinement--54103234a recent episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades, awareness of the brutality of this practice has begun to enter the mainstream. Its history as a counterinsurgency tactic, however, has yet to be fully examined in the light of day. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars himself, a number of which were spent in solitary, to discuss the cruel truths about solitary confinement that people on the outside need to know but rarely hear about.

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Report: Time-In-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54103234Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:34:57 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe topic of solitary confinement was the focus of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSZwErdH3I of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades, awareness of the...a recent episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades, awareness of the brutality of this practice has begun to enter the mainstream. Its history as a counterinsurgency tactic, however, has yet to be fully examined in the light of day. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars himself, a number of which were spent in solitary, to discuss the cruel truths about solitary confinement that people on the outside need to know but rarely hear about.

Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/former-prisoner-of-48-years-reviews-john-olivers-report-on-solitary-confinement

Report: Time-In-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems

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]]>2517abolition,bail,hbo,incarceration,jail,lwt,oliver,prison,racism,reform,rtb,sentencing,slavery,solitaryfalsefullCash bail is an abomination of justice. We should get rid of it.https://www.spreaker.com/episode/cash-bail-is-an-abomination-of-justice-we-should-get-rid-of-it--54044795Rattling the Bars to talk about how cash bail creates a two-tier system of justice that punishes people for the “crime” of being poor—and what we can do about it.

David Gaspar is the Chief Executive Officer of The Bail Project, a nonprofit organization that provides free bail assistance to those in need and advocates for better, more humane pretrial policies. A formerly incarcerated individual directly affected by the cash bail system, Mr. Gaspar earned his GED and bachelor’s degree and studied law while in prison, won his appeal, and was released 11 years early.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54044795Tue, 30 May 2023 18:35:02 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWhile the underlying logic of the cash bail system in the US may sound convincing on paper, in practice it has become a means of denying justice to, and destroying the lives of, people who have not even been convicted of a crime. “The US Constitution...Rattling the Bars to talk about how cash bail creates a two-tier system of justice that punishes people for the “crime” of being poor—and what we can do about it.

David Gaspar is the Chief Executive Officer of The Bail Project, a nonprofit organization that provides free bail assistance to those in need and advocates for better, more humane pretrial policies. A formerly incarcerated individual directly affected by the cash bail system, Mr. Gaspar earned his GED and bachelor’s degree and studied law while in prison, won his appeal, and was released 11 years early.

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fullHow one organization is training formerly incarcerated leaders to fight mass incarcerationhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-one-organization-is-training-formerly-incarcerated-leaders-to-fight-mass-incarceration--53952902
Over 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the US today, and even greater 5.5 million people are subjected to the wide-ranging system of mass punishment from parole, probation, and beyond. One organization, JustLeadershipUSA, seeks to tackle the prison system by building leaders among formerly incarcerated people, and fighting for change from the local level up. JustLeadershipUSA President and CEO DeAnna Hoskins joins Rattling the Bars to explain the work of her organization and how it seeks to bring about to change.

DeAnna Hoskins has been at the helm of JLUSA as the President and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) since 2018. A nationally recognized leader and dynamic public speaker, Ms. Hoskins has been committed to the movement for racial and social justice, working alongside those most impacted by marginalization for over two decades.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53952902Mon, 22 May 2023 18:16:28 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa*Editor's note: At 00:56, host Mansa Musa misspeaks when quoting a report and says that 55 million people are in the system of mass incarceration; the correct number is 5.5 million. Over 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the US today, and even...
Over 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the US today, and even greater 5.5 million people are subjected to the wide-ranging system of mass punishment from parole, probation, and beyond. One organization, JustLeadershipUSA, seeks to tackle the prison system by building leaders among formerly incarcerated people, and fighting for change from the local level up. JustLeadershipUSA President and CEO DeAnna Hoskins joins Rattling the Bars to explain the work of her organization and how it seeks to bring about to change.

DeAnna Hoskins has been at the helm of JLUSA as the President and CEO of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA) since 2018. A nationally recognized leader and dynamic public speaker, Ms. Hoskins has been committed to the movement for racial and social justice, working alongside those most impacted by marginalization for over two decades.

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]]>1393abolition,black,carceral,confinement,incarceration,jail,mansa,news,panthers,prison,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullKhader Adnan's martyrdom is an indictment on Israel's abuse of Palestinian prisonershttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/khader-adnan-s-martyrdom-is-an-indictment-on-israel-s-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners--53892493refused to return the body of Adnan to his mourning widow and children. Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi joins Rattling the Barsto discuss the life, activism, and martyrdom of Khader Adnan, and what his death reveals about the routine abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi is the founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. She is also the founder and director of Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53892493Tue, 16 May 2023 16:53:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe death of Khader Adnan in Israeli detention during a hunger strike on May 2 of this year sparked mourning worldwide and a general strike in occupied Palestine. The 45-year-old Adnan was on his 87th day of hunger strike while serving a sentence for...refused to return the body of Adnan to his mourning widow and children. Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi joins Rattling the Barsto discuss the life, activism, and martyrdom of Khader Adnan, and what his death reveals about the routine abuse of Palestinian prisoners by Israel.

Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi is the founding Director and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. She is also the founder and director of Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice.

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2041hunger,israel,jail,naiba,occupation,palestine,prison,prisoner,solitary,strikefalsefullA new media project seeks to bring incarcerated writers to the forefront of prison abolition discoursehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-media-project-seeks-to-bring-incarcerated-writers-to-the-forefront-of-prison-abolition-discourse--53756847Scalawag Magazine tentatively titled 'Project Abolition' seeks to disrupt the dominant narrative by platforming voices from within prisons themselves. Scalawag Editor-At-Large Da'Shaun Harrison joins Rattling the Bars to explain Project Abolition.

Da'Shaun Harrison (they/them) is the Editor-At-Large of Scalawag Magazine. They are also the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53756847Mon, 08 May 2023 18:04:49 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe call for prison abolition has been popularized over the last decade of popular movements against police violence, many of which have operated under the banner of Black Lives Matter. But what does abolition mean, and who gets to define it? Thus...Scalawag Magazine tentatively titled 'Project Abolition' seeks to disrupt the dominant narrative by platforming voices from within prisons themselves. Scalawag Editor-At-Large Da'Shaun Harrison joins Rattling the Bars to explain Project Abolition.

Da'Shaun Harrison (they/them) is the Editor-At-Large of Scalawag Magazine. They are also the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness.

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]]>1797abolition,carceral,confinement,incarceration,jail,mansa,news,panthers,prison,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullMay Day's history shows why labor and prison struggles are intertwinedhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/may-day-s-history-shows-why-labor-and-prison-struggles-are-intertwined--53720018Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the history of May Day, and how the persecution of organizers in the wake of the Haymarket Massacre highlights the importance of extending solidarity from the labor movement to the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53720018Tue, 02 May 2023 18:18:39 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMay Day, also known as International Workers' Day, is celebrated around the world by labor unions, socialist parties, and anarchists. May Day's origins go back to the 1886 Haymarket Affair, when hundreds of thousands of US workers walked off the job,...Rattling the Bars for a discussion on the history of May Day, and how the persecution of organizers in the wake of the Haymarket Massacre highlights the importance of extending solidarity from the labor movement to the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.

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]]>2302abolition,genocide,incarceration,jail,labor,may,news,panthers,prison,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnn,union,workersfalsefullHow a 1970s prisoner-organized literacy program changed Maryland's penitentiarieshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-maryland-s-penitentiaries--53630575Click here to read the transcript

Marshall "Eddie" Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to organize. In the early 1970s, Maryland's state prisons were overcrowded and lacked education opportunities for incarcerated people. As a form of intervention, Eddie organized a university-level education program with fellow prisoners known as "To Say Their Own Word." The program not only raised the level of literacy among inmates; it also forged stronger solidarity between prisoners, and catalyzed other organizing and transformation across Maryland's prison system. Former participants of To Say Their Own Word, Saleem El-Amin and Bruce Franklin, join Rattling the Bars for a look back on this project's impact.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53630575Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:15:11 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musahttps://therealnews.com/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-marylands-penitentiaries Marshall "Eddie" Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to...Click here to read the transcript

Marshall "Eddie" Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to organize. In the early 1970s, Maryland's state prisons were overcrowded and lacked education opportunities for incarcerated people. As a form of intervention, Eddie organized a university-level education program with fellow prisoners known as "To Say Their Own Word." The program not only raised the level of literacy among inmates; it also forged stronger solidarity between prisoners, and catalyzed other organizing and transformation across Maryland's prison system. Former participants of To Say Their Own Word, Saleem El-Amin and Bruce Franklin, join Rattling the Bars for a look back on this project's impact.

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]]>1613abolition,genocide,incarceration,jail,panthers,prison,racism,reform,rtb,slavery,solitaryfalsefullHow Maryland inmates organized for university-level education in prisonhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-maryland-inmates-organized-for-university-level-education-in-prison--53562004Click here to read the transcript.

Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN Executive Producer Marshall “Eddie” Conway never stopped organizing. In 1980, while incarcerated himself as a political prisoner, Eddie helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “To Say Their Own Word,” which brought thinkers and scholars to Maryland Penitentiary to speak about topics like US fascism, capitalism, the prison-industrial complex, government surveillance, and many other issues that have become even more pressing today. Through their organizing work, Eddie and his fellow inmates were responsible for dramatically increasing literacy levels among prisoners inside the Maryland Penitentiary and transforming the lives of countless inmates.

This special edition of Rattling the Bars features a mini-documentary that lays out an oral history of the “To Say Their Own Word” program, with testimonies from Beth Saunders, Dominique Conway, Saleem El-Amin, Mansa Musa, and Gerald Dent. This mini-documentary, produced as part of a collaborative partnership between The Real News Network, UMBC Special Collections, and the Baltimore Field School, will be screened publicly at the TRNN studio in Baltimore on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53562004Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:01:17 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musahttps://therealnews.com/how-maryland-inmates-organized-for-university-level-education-in-prison Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and...Click here to read the transcript.

Even though he was framed for the killing of a local police officer, sentenced without a fair trial, and imprisoned for 44 years, former Black Panther and dearly departed TRNN Executive Producer Marshall “Eddie” Conway never stopped organizing. In 1980, while incarcerated himself as a political prisoner, Eddie helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “To Say Their Own Word,” which brought thinkers and scholars to Maryland Penitentiary to speak about topics like US fascism, capitalism, the prison-industrial complex, government surveillance, and many other issues that have become even more pressing today. Through their organizing work, Eddie and his fellow inmates were responsible for dramatically increasing literacy levels among prisoners inside the Maryland Penitentiary and transforming the lives of countless inmates.

This special edition of Rattling the Bars features a mini-documentary that lays out an oral history of the “To Say Their Own Word” program, with testimonies from Beth Saunders, Dominique Conway, Saleem El-Amin, Mansa Musa, and Gerald Dent. This mini-documentary, produced as part of a collaborative partnership between The Real News Network, UMBC Special Collections, and the Baltimore Field School, will be screened publicly at the TRNN studio in Baltimore on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

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580jail,libraries,maryland,news,organizing,prison,rtb,trnnfalsefullThe US is guilty of genocide w/ Jalil Muntaqimhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-us-is-guilty-of-genocide-w-jalil-muntaqim--53494891https://therealnews.com/jalil-muntaqim-the-time-to-end-prison-slavery-is-now

In 2021, the International Tribunal On US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples found the United States government guilty of genocide. The tribunal drew upon the legacy of the 1951 petition submitted to the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress: "We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.” Jalil Muntaqim joins Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, the US's long history of genocide, the need for a New Afrikan independence movement in the US, and the strategy to internationalize this struggle beyond compromised institutions such as the United Nations.To learn more about the Spirit of Mandela campaign to organize a People's Senate, click here: https://spiritofmandela.org/peoples-senate/

Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was incarcerated for 49 years as a political prisoner of the United States, and released in 2020. Muntaqim's is the author of several books, the most recent of which is We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53494891Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:30:55 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaClick here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/jalil-muntaqim-the-time-to-end-prison-slavery-is-now In 2021, the International Tribunal On US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples found the United States...https://therealnews.com/jalil-muntaqim-the-time-to-end-prison-slavery-is-now

In 2021, the International Tribunal On US Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples found the United States government guilty of genocide. The tribunal drew upon the legacy of the 1951 petition submitted to the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress: "We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.” Jalil Muntaqim joins Rattling the Bars to discuss his life, the US's long history of genocide, the need for a New Afrikan independence movement in the US, and the strategy to internationalize this struggle beyond compromised institutions such as the United Nations.To learn more about the Spirit of Mandela campaign to organize a People's Senate, click here: https://spiritofmandela.org/peoples-senate/

Jalil Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He was incarcerated for 49 years as a political prisoner of the United States, and released in 2020. Muntaqim's is the author of several books, the most recent of which is We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings.

You can find We Are Our Own Liberators here: https://blackdragonmme.com/new-releases/

To read the 1953 'We Charge Genocide' petition, click here: https://www.crmvet.org/info/genocide.htm

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1889genocide,incarceration,jail,news,prison,racism,real,rtb,slavery,solitary,trnnfalsefullThe Pendleton 2 saved a man's life. A judge sentenced them to 200 years for ithttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pendleton-2-saved-a-man-s-life-a-judge-sentenced-them-to-200-years-for-it--53494904
On Feb. 1, 1985, prison guards at the Indiana State Reformatory (now Pendleton Correctional Facility) affiliated with a KKK-splinter group known as the Sons of Light chained prisoner Lincoln Love in their office and began to mercilessly beat him. John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter led a group of prisoners to the office and demanded entrance. When the Sons of Light responded with more violence, the prisoners took hostages and occupied a cell block for 15 hours, releasing a list of demands to improve inhumane prison conditions. John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter were ultimately sentenced to 84 and 142 years for their successful attempt to save Lincoln Love's life. Cole and Trotter remain incarcerated to this day, and now face major medical complications from old age and decades of institutional neglect. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks about the "Pendleton 2" with poet Too Black and journalist Victoria Law.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53494904Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:28:38 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/the-pendleton-2-saved-a-mans-life-a-judge-sentenced-them-to-200-years-for-it On Feb. 1, 1985, prison guards at the Indiana State Reformatory (now Pendleton Correctional Facility) affiliated...
On Feb. 1, 1985, prison guards at the Indiana State Reformatory (now Pendleton Correctional Facility) affiliated with a KKK-splinter group known as the Sons of Light chained prisoner Lincoln Love in their office and began to mercilessly beat him. John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter led a group of prisoners to the office and demanded entrance. When the Sons of Light responded with more violence, the prisoners took hostages and occupied a cell block for 15 hours, releasing a list of demands to improve inhumane prison conditions. John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter were ultimately sentenced to 84 and 142 years for their successful attempt to save Lincoln Love's life. Cole and Trotter remain incarcerated to this day, and now face major medical complications from old age and decades of institutional neglect. On this episode of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks about the "Pendleton 2" with poet Too Black and journalist Victoria Law.

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]]>1856incarceration,jail,kkk,life_sentence,mass_incarceration,pendleton,prison,solitaryfalsefullA tribute to the revolutionary life of Marshall 'Eddie' Conwayhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-tribute-to-the-revolutionary-life-of-marshall-eddie-conway--53355386
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53355386Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:53:20 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMarshall "Eddie" Conway joined the ancestors on Feb. 13, 2023 after a yearlong battle with illness. Born in Baltimore in 1946, Eddie joined the the Black Panther Party in 1968. The Baltimore BPP chapter, with Eddie’s support and leadership, built...
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]]>2084baltimore,conway,incarceration,panthers,prisons,rtbfalsefull'The Road to Damascus' uses theater to confront white supremacyhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-road-to-damascus-uses-theater-to-confront-white-supremacy--53265695
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53265695Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:37:05 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe new one-woman play 'The Road to Damascus' reinterprets the biblical story of Saul and the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an allegory for white complicity in the US prison system and the possibility of redemption through anti-racism. Creator and...
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]]>1625bop,carceral,commissary,confinement,dop,incarceration,jails,prisons,racism,rtb,solitary,theaterfalsefullA new federal proposal could seize 75% of commissary funds families send to loved ones in prisonhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-federal-proposal-could-seize-75-of-commissary-funds-families-send-to-loved-ones-in-prison--53177785
If you'd like to help stop this new proposal from the BOP, click here for instructions on how to submit a public comment—Monday, March 13 is the last day to act.

Tim Curry is the Policy & Research Director at the Fines and Fees Justice Center.

Jodi Hocking is the founder and Executive Director of Return Strong, a grassroots organization of families and loved ones of incarcerated people fighting for transparency, accountability, and communication from the Nevada Department of Corrections.

Mark Ford is a formerly incarcerated person who won relief from the BOP's proposed deductions after advocates won a statutory cap on the new policy.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53177785Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:55:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIncarcerated people across the US could find their commissary funds depleted by a new proposed policy from the Bureau of Prisons to automatically deduct three quarters of all funds prisoners receive from loved ones on the outside....
If you'd like to help stop this new proposal from the BOP, click here for instructions on how to submit a public comment—Monday, March 13 is the last day to act.

Tim Curry is the Policy & Research Director at the Fines and Fees Justice Center.

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Mark Ford is a formerly incarcerated person who won relief from the BOP's proposed deductions after advocates won a statutory cap on the new policy.

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]]>1682bop,carceral,commissary,confinement,dop,fees,fines,incarceration,jails,prisons,solitaryfalsefullMass incarceration has lasted for 50 years nowhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mass-incarceration-has-lasted-for-50-years-now--52868295The Sentencing Project. While awareness and political discourse about US prison expansion has grown in the last decade, we are still far from dismantling this violent and inhumane system of captivity. Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization's new campaign to fight mass incarceration, '50 years and a wake up.'

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52868295Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:17:35 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe growth of the US prison population under a system of mass incarceration has now gone on for 50 years, according to https://www.sentencingproject.org/. While awareness and political discourse about US prison expansion has grown in the last decade,...The Sentencing Project. While awareness and political discourse about US prison expansion has grown in the last decade, we are still far from dismantling this violent and inhumane system of captivity. Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization's new campaign to fight mass incarceration, '50 years and a wake up.'

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]]>1301incarceration,jail,prison,racismfalsefullWe lost Malcolm X, but we can’t lose the dream of international revolutionhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-lost-malcolm-x-but-we-can-t-lose-the-dream-of-international-revolution--52804438
Paulette Dauteuil is the former Co-chair (2010-2012) and National Secretary (2012-2014) of the National Jericho Movement. She now serves on the advisory board and is also a member of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Ashanti Alston is a former political prisoner, former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and a revolutionary speaker, writer, organizer, and motivator. He currently serves on the steering committee of the National Jericho Movement to free US political prisoners.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52804438Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:40:01 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFeb. 21, 2023, marks the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. We honor his life and legacy by recalling his revolutionary message to the downtrodden peoples of the world and committing to carrying on his fight for liberation. In this...
Paulette Dauteuil is the former Co-chair (2010-2012) and National Secretary (2012-2014) of the National Jericho Movement. She now serves on the advisory board and is also a member of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Ashanti Alston is a former political prisoner, former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and a revolutionary speaker, writer, organizer, and motivator. He currently serves on the steering committee of the National Jericho Movement to free US political prisoners.

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]]>2327anniversary,assassination,black,blm,commemoration,freedom,liberation,malcolm,movement,news,panthers,radical,revolution,revolutionary,trnnfalsefullDozens of Texas prisoners are hunger striking against solitary confinementhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dozens-of-texas-prisoners-are-hunger-striking-against-solitary-confinement--52770393Latino Justice, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the hunger strike and conditions of solitary confinement in Texas.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52770393Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:00:32 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAcross the US, some 50,000 incarcerated people are kept under conditions of solitary confinement. Advocates and prisoners have pushed to define the practice as a form of torture, pointing to the devastating psychological and physical effects it has on...Latino Justice, joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the hunger strike and conditions of solitary confinement in Texas.

This episode originally aired on February 13, 2023.

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]]>2091confinement,imprisonment,incarceration,justice,prisoners,solitary,strike,texas,torturefalsefullInterview from prison: What an inhumane carceral system does to human psycheshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/interview-from-prison-what-an-inhumane-carceral-system-does-to-human-psyches--52664203
In this urgent, exclusive interview for Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Carla J. Simmons from inside the Georgia prison system, as well as Page Dukes of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Simmons, who has been incarcerated since 2004, recently published an article in Scalawag magazine on the irreparable psychological damage our inhumane system of mass incarceration inflicts on incarcerated people, prison staff, and the communities returning citizens re-enter upon their release. “There needs to be accountability for the psychological damage caused by incarceration as more and more members of society experience it, for longer periods of time,” Simmons writes. “If society upholds the pretense that jails and prisons act as a rehabilitative service, we must consider what condition these people will be in when they re-enter society.”

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52664203Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:24:11 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/exclusive-interview-from-prison-carla-j-simmons-on-what-an-inhumane-carceral-system-does-to-human-psyches In this urgent, exclusive interview for Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with...
In this urgent, exclusive interview for Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Carla J. Simmons from inside the Georgia prison system, as well as Page Dukes of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Simmons, who has been incarcerated since 2004, recently published an article in Scalawag magazine on the irreparable psychological damage our inhumane system of mass incarceration inflicts on incarcerated people, prison staff, and the communities returning citizens re-enter upon their release. “There needs to be accountability for the psychological damage caused by incarceration as more and more members of society experience it, for longer periods of time,” Simmons writes. “If society upholds the pretense that jails and prisons act as a rehabilitative service, we must consider what condition these people will be in when they re-enter society.”

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]]>2317prison,rtb,traumafalsefullThese women are fighting Nevada's prison system—and winninghttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/these-women-are-fighting-nevada-s-prison-system-and-winning--52532382

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the existing crisis of incarceration in the US, which has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. During this time, a group of women with loved ones incarcerated in Nevada’s prison system founded the organization Return Strong to fight for decarceration and the successful re-entry of formerly incarcerated people into society. Return Strong Executive Director Jodi Hocking and Community Organizer Ashley Gaddis join Rattling the Bars to discuss the fight against mass incarceration in Nevada.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52532382Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:32:16 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/these-women-are-fighting-nevadas-prison-system-and-winning The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the existing crisis of incarceration in the US, which has the highest...

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the existing crisis of incarceration in the US, which has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. During this time, a group of women with loved ones incarcerated in Nevada’s prison system founded the organization Return Strong to fight for decarceration and the successful re-entry of formerly incarcerated people into society. Return Strong Executive Director Jodi Hocking and Community Organizer Ashley Gaddis join Rattling the Bars to discuss the fight against mass incarceration in Nevada.

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]]>1889nevada,prisons,return,rtb,strong,trnnfalsefull2022 was Rikers Island's deadliest year. Again.https://www.spreaker.com/episode/2022-was-rikers-island-s-deadliest-year-again--52166327
19 people have perished at Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year in the jail's history. Rikers Island's previous deadliest year was just last year, when 16 people died at the notorious pretrial detention center. NYC Mayor Eric Adams has rejected calls to close the facility, along with demands from advocates for a federal receivership. A federal receivership would give power to a court-appointed, nonpartisan expert to intervene in the situation on Rikers with wide latitude to change conditions in the jail. New York public defender Olayemi Olurin joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the human rights crisis on Rikers Island.

Olayemi Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network and The Hill’s Rising.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52166327Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:41:28 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaEditor's note: This interview was filmed on Dec. 1, 2022. A 19th person, Edgardo Mejia, died at Rikers on Sunday, Dec. 11. 19 people have perished at Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year in the jail's history. Rikers Island's...
19 people have perished at Rikers Island in 2022, making this the deadliest year in the jail's history. Rikers Island's previous deadliest year was just last year, when 16 people died at the notorious pretrial detention center. NYC Mayor Eric Adams has rejected calls to close the facility, along with demands from advocates for a federal receivership. A federal receivership would give power to a court-appointed, nonpartisan expert to intervene in the situation on Rikers with wide latitude to change conditions in the jail. New York public defender Olayemi Olurin joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the human rights crisis on Rikers Island.

Olayemi Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network and The Hill’s Rising.

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]]>1616attorney,bail,detention,incarceration,jail,nyc,pretrial,prison,rikersfalsefull'Tax Broke' Baltimore's Dirty Secrethttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tax-broke-baltimore-s-dirty-secret--52113110https://therealnews.com/how-private-developers-profited-from-tax-subsidies-in-baltimore-intended-to-revitalize-poor-neighborhoods

For 50 years, Baltimore city officials have trumpeted the use of tax subsidies for private developers as a way to catalyze economic development. As more and more public funds have gone into the pockets of the rich, the city’s prospects have only worsened. Hundreds of thousands of residents have left or been pushed out of the city, and numerous businesses have followed suit. In their new documentary, ‘Tax Broke,’ TRNN reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis team up with veteran Baltimore reporter Jayne Miller to tell the story of how capital has fed parasitically on taxpayer money for half a century. Stephen and Jayne join Rattling the Bars to share what their reporting in ‘Tax Broke’ uncovered.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52113110Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:03:02 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/how-private-developers-profited-from-tax-subsidies-in-baltimore-intended-to-revitalize-poor-neighborhoods For 50 years, Baltimore city officials have trumpeted the use of tax subsidies...https://therealnews.com/how-private-developers-profited-from-tax-subsidies-in-baltimore-intended-to-revitalize-poor-neighborhoods

For 50 years, Baltimore city officials have trumpeted the use of tax subsidies for private developers as a way to catalyze economic development. As more and more public funds have gone into the pockets of the rich, the city’s prospects have only worsened. Hundreds of thousands of residents have left or been pushed out of the city, and numerous businesses have followed suit. In their new documentary, ‘Tax Broke,’ TRNN reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis team up with veteran Baltimore reporter Jayne Miller to tell the story of how capital has fed parasitically on taxpayer money for half a century. Stephen and Jayne join Rattling the Bars to share what their reporting in ‘Tax Broke’ uncovered.

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]]>1828baltimore,blight,city_hall,developers,development,real_estate,rich,tax,taxes,tax_subsidies,tif,wealthyfalsefullHe was supposed to be out on parole, but ICE deported him to Cambodiahttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/he-was-supposed-to-be-out-on-parole-but-ice-deported-him-to-cambodia--51983772https://therealnews.com/after-26-years-in-prison-cambodian-refugee-phoeun-you-was-supposed-to-be-paroled-ice-deported-him-instead

When Phoeun You's family left Cambodia as refugees, he was only one year old. After spending a number of years in a refugee camp in Thailand, You's family was resettled in the US. At the age of 20, You was convicted of murder and incarcerated in San Quentin. During his incarceration, You became a certified crisis counselor, and established ROOTS (Restoring Our Original True Selves)—a restorative justice program for Asian American and Pacific Islander prisoners. After 26 years behind bars and a remarkable personal transformation, the California Board of Parole Hearings recommended You for release in August 2021. On his release date, You was handed over to ICE. Activists rallied to demand an urgent pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom which could have stopped You's deportation, but to no avail. Calling in from Cambodia, Phoeun You joins Rattling the Bars to tell his story.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51983772Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:25:12 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/after-26-years-in-prison-cambodian-refugee-phoeun-you-was-supposed-to-be-paroled-ice-deported-him-instead When Phoeun You's family left Cambodia as refugees, he was only one year old....https://therealnews.com/after-26-years-in-prison-cambodian-refugee-phoeun-you-was-supposed-to-be-paroled-ice-deported-him-instead

When Phoeun You's family left Cambodia as refugees, he was only one year old. After spending a number of years in a refugee camp in Thailand, You's family was resettled in the US. At the age of 20, You was convicted of murder and incarcerated in San Quentin. During his incarceration, You became a certified crisis counselor, and established ROOTS (Restoring Our Original True Selves)—a restorative justice program for Asian American and Pacific Islander prisoners. After 26 years behind bars and a remarkable personal transformation, the California Board of Parole Hearings recommended You for release in August 2021. On his release date, You was handed over to ICE. Activists rallied to demand an urgent pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom which could have stopped You's deportation, but to no avail. Calling in from Cambodia, Phoeun You joins Rattling the Bars to tell his story.

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]]>2154cambodia,deportation,ice,rtb,trnnfalsefullEl Salvador's history shows migration isn't the problem, imperialism ishttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/el-salvador-s-history-shows-migration-isn-t-the-problem-imperialism-is--51891200
Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto. He’s also the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins).

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51891200Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:59:38 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn his new memoir and first book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, journalist Roberto Lovato traces the long history of colonial violence in El Salvador through the story of his family. Lovato joins...
Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto. He’s also the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins).

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]]>2220capitalism,colonialism,drugs,history,imperialism,migration,paramilitary,revolutionary,salvador,us,warfalsefullIt's time to legalize marijuanahttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-s-time-to-legalize-marijuana--51740780
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51740780Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:27:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOn Oct 6, President Biden announced an official pardon of anyone incarcerated on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Biden framed his pardon in terms of correcting the historic injustices meted out against people of color by the War on...
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]]>1575biden,felony,incarceration,jail,legalize,marijuana,pardon,prison,weedfalsefullSan Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtraphttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/san-quentin-prison-is-a-covid-deathtrap--51676524
Juan Moreno Haines is an award-winning incarcerated journalist and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the editor of the San Quentin News.

Katie Rose Quandt a freelance journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a senior editor at the Prison Policy Initiative, and a writer and editor at Solitary Watch.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51676524Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:12:54 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn 2020, San Quentin State Prison in California had some of the worst rates of COVID infection in the nation. At least 23 people died from COVID after contracting it at the prison. Prisons, jails, and detention centers across the US proved similarly...
Juan Moreno Haines is an award-winning incarcerated journalist and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the editor of the San Quentin News.

Katie Rose Quandt a freelance journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a senior editor at the Prison Policy Initiative, and a writer and editor at Solitary Watch.

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2500california,covid,detention,incarceration,jail,overcrowded,prison,quarantinefalsefullCholera outbreak in Haiti's prisons amid protests against Henry governmenthttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cholera-outbreak-in-haiti-s-prisons-amid-protests-against-henry-government--51610901
S.B., a survivor of deportation who spent time in Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary, joins Rattling the Bars to share his experience of the Haitian prison system. S.B. reports a total lack of sanitary infrastructure within the prison, even attesting that prisoners who died in their crowded cells were often left there overnight in the presence of other inmates. Sociologist Jon Shaffer also joins the show to contextualize how Haiti’s current predicament is the result of centuries of colonial intervention and extraction from Haiti. Schaffer, S.B., and other advocates are calling for the immediate release of prisoners in Haiti, and an end to US deportations to Haiti. They also strongly oppose the US’s proposal to redeploy foreign soldiers to Haiti through the UN.

Jon Shaffer is a sociologist and organizer based in Baltimore who studies global health organizations, social movements, and their struggles over scientific knowledge. He is Peste Magazine’s Associate Editor for Labor, Organizing, and Activism.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51610901Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:54:59 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaCases of cholera have been confirmed at Haiti’s National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Cholera, which spreads through unsanitary water, has become endemic in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, and is believed to have been inadvertently introduced by...
S.B., a survivor of deportation who spent time in Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary, joins Rattling the Bars to share his experience of the Haitian prison system. S.B. reports a total lack of sanitary infrastructure within the prison, even attesting that prisoners who died in their crowded cells were often left there overnight in the presence of other inmates. Sociologist Jon Shaffer also joins the show to contextualize how Haiti’s current predicament is the result of centuries of colonial intervention and extraction from Haiti. Schaffer, S.B., and other advocates are calling for the immediate release of prisoners in Haiti, and an end to US deportations to Haiti. They also strongly oppose the US’s proposal to redeploy foreign soldiers to Haiti through the UN.

Jon Shaffer is a sociologist and organizer based in Baltimore who studies global health organizations, social movements, and their struggles over scientific knowledge. He is Peste Magazine’s Associate Editor for Labor, Organizing, and Activism.

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Visiting Lassen County Judge Robert F. Moody ruled against the town of Susanville on Sept. 8 in a lawsuit which aimed to stop California Correctional Center (CCC) from closing. Judge Moody’s ruling lifts the preliminary injunction and allows the state to move forward with plans for closure effectively immediately.

On Sept. 2, the state requested an expedited ruling to dissolve the lawsuit, arguing that the court’s stalling tactics were a “disregard of clear law” which amounted to “an abuse of the court’s discretion.” The ruling marks the end of the town’s year-long fight to keep CCC––a six-decade-old facility requiring $503 million in repairs––open indefinitely. Governor Newsom’s 2022-2023 Enacted Budget mandates that CCC must close by June 30, 2023.
The case has been drawn out, contentious and has attracted national media attention. In May, people incarcerated in CCC filed an amicus brief demanding the process be expedited, which was rejected by the judge. Incarcerated organizers released a public statement on Tuesday, August 23rd which decried the process and asked the court to do “the right thing,” stating it was time to “move on” from this case and shut the prison down. Advocates see the decision in this case as a decisive victory.

Brian Kaneda is the Deputy Director for CURB, Californians United For A Responsible Budget and a leader of the statewide campaign to Close California Prisons. He is a founding chapter member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) Los Angeles and has spent the past decade monitoring and challenging the incarceration crisis and advocating for the rights of incarcerated people.

Shakeer Rahman is an attorney and organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. He represented Timothy Peoples, Duane Palm, and Patrick Noel Everett in their effort to bring the perspective of prisoners inside the California Correctional Center into the City of Susanville's lawsuit to halt the prison's closure.

General Dogon is an organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. He previously served 27 years in the California prison system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51385415Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:40:17 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/judge-rules-california-prison-must-close Visiting Lassen County Judge Robert F. Moody ruled against the town of Susanville on Sept. 8 in a lawsuit which aimed to stop California...https://therealnews.com/judge-rules-california-prison-must-close

Visiting Lassen County Judge Robert F. Moody ruled against the town of Susanville on Sept. 8 in a lawsuit which aimed to stop California Correctional Center (CCC) from closing. Judge Moody’s ruling lifts the preliminary injunction and allows the state to move forward with plans for closure effectively immediately.

On Sept. 2, the state requested an expedited ruling to dissolve the lawsuit, arguing that the court’s stalling tactics were a “disregard of clear law” which amounted to “an abuse of the court’s discretion.” The ruling marks the end of the town’s year-long fight to keep CCC––a six-decade-old facility requiring $503 million in repairs––open indefinitely. Governor Newsom’s 2022-2023 Enacted Budget mandates that CCC must close by June 30, 2023.
The case has been drawn out, contentious and has attracted national media attention. In May, people incarcerated in CCC filed an amicus brief demanding the process be expedited, which was rejected by the judge. Incarcerated organizers released a public statement on Tuesday, August 23rd which decried the process and asked the court to do “the right thing,” stating it was time to “move on” from this case and shut the prison down. Advocates see the decision in this case as a decisive victory.

Brian Kaneda is the Deputy Director for CURB, Californians United For A Responsible Budget and a leader of the statewide campaign to Close California Prisons. He is a founding chapter member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) Los Angeles and has spent the past decade monitoring and challenging the incarceration crisis and advocating for the rights of incarcerated people.

Shakeer Rahman is an attorney and organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. He represented Timothy Peoples, Duane Palm, and Patrick Noel Everett in their effort to bring the perspective of prisoners inside the California Correctional Center into the City of Susanville's lawsuit to halt the prison's closure.

General Dogon is an organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. He previously served 27 years in the California prison system.

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2029california,ccc,closed,prison,rtb,trnnfalsefullLacino Hamilton speaks on his 26-year wrongful imprisonmenthttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lacino-hamilton-speaks-on-his-26-year-wrongful-imprisonment--51256837
Lacino Hamilton is a writer, thinker and activist who was incarcerated for 26 years thanks to a wrongful conviction. For more information about his case, see:
“Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men.” https://truthout.org/news/item/29950-ring-of-snitches-how-detroit-police-slapped-false-murder-convictions-on-young-black-men

After being sent to prison, he spent four of his first six years in solitary confinement. It was there that he began to read, think critically and distinguish between expressing a desire to change and demonstrating the ability to achieve it. He can be reached for a larger discussion on this and related topics via email.: Lacino.hamilton@gmail.com

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51256837Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:20:59 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn September 2020, Lacino Hamilton was exonerated for the murder of his foster mother, Willa B. Bias, and released after 26 years in prison. Convicted at the age of 19, the only evidence linking Hamilton to the Bias's death were a confession police...
Lacino Hamilton is a writer, thinker and activist who was incarcerated for 26 years thanks to a wrongful conviction. For more information about his case, see:
“Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men.” https://truthout.org/news/item/29950-ring-of-snitches-how-detroit-police-slapped-false-murder-convictions-on-young-black-men

After being sent to prison, he spent four of his first six years in solitary confinement. It was there that he began to read, think critically and distinguish between expressing a desire to change and demonstrating the ability to achieve it. He can be reached for a larger discussion on this and related topics via email.: Lacino.hamilton@gmail.com

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2665conviction,policing,prisons,wrongfulfalsefullBlack August and the fight to free political prisoners, with the Jericho Movementhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners-with-the-jericho-movement--51078880https://therealnews.com/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners

Jericho Movement activists fighting for the release of freedom fighters from US prisons speak on the meaning and purpose of Black August.

Jihad Abdulmumit is the Chairperson of the National Jericho Movement

Paulette Dauteuil is the former Co-chair and National Secretary of the National Jericho Movement

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51078880Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:30:00 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners Jericho Movement activists fighting for the release of freedom fighters from US prisons speak on the meaning and purpose of Black...https://therealnews.com/black-august-and-the-fight-to-free-political-prisoners

Jericho Movement activists fighting for the release of freedom fighters from US prisons speak on the meaning and purpose of Black August.

Jihad Abdulmumit is the Chairperson of the National Jericho Movement

Paulette Dauteuil is the former Co-chair and National Secretary of the National Jericho Movement

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]]>2794activists,august,incarceration,jericho,prisons,trnnfalsefullAdvocates demand Israel end solitary confinement of Ahmad Manasra, imprisoned at 13https://www.spreaker.com/episode/advocates-demand-israel-end-solitary-confinement-of-ahmad-manasra-imprisoned-at-13--51000221
Budour Hassan is a Palestinian feminist and writer based in occupied Jerusalem. She works as a researcher for Amnesty International.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51000221Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:20:29 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAhmad Manasra, a Palestinian boy from Jerusalem, was arrested by Israeli police at the age of 13. He has now been in prison for 7 years, and is currently in his seventh consecutive month of solitary confinement. Advocates say Manasra has been severely...
Budour Hassan is a Palestinian feminist and writer based in occupied Jerusalem. She works as a researcher for Amnesty International.

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]]>1646falsefullStop trying to revive local economies with prisonshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stop-trying-to-revive-local-economies-with-prisons--48901104
Nicole D. Porter is the Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, managing state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and eliminating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Her advocacy has supported criminal justice reforms in several states including Kentucky, Missouri, and California. Porter was named a “New Civil Rights Leader” by Essence Magazine for her work to eliminate mass incarceration.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48901104Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:06:18 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaClosing prisons and reducing the incarcerated population should be a good thing, but when local economies become dependent on the prison industry it creates many perverse incentives for keeping our inhumane system of mass incarceration going....
Nicole D. Porter is the Senior Director of Advocacy at The Sentencing Project, managing state and local advocacy efforts on sentencing reform, voting rights, and eliminating racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Her advocacy has supported criminal justice reforms in several states including Kentucky, Missouri, and California. Porter was named a “New Civil Rights Leader” by Essence Magazine for her work to eliminate mass incarceration.

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]]>1582california,economy,jails,jobs,prisons,shutdownfalsefullRepurposing prisons can revitalize rural Americahttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/repurposing-prisons-can-revitalize-rural-america--51000061
Nicole Porter is the Senior Director of Advocacy at the Sentencing Project.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51000061Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:56:51 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe economic fortunes of rural communities across the United States are often deeply intertwined with the prison industrial complex. This poses a real challenge to the project of ending mass incarceration. How can organizers build political opposition...
Nicole Porter is the Senior Director of Advocacy at the Sentencing Project.

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]]>1811incarceration,jails,prisonsfalsefullVirginia revokes early release for inmates with good behaviorhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/virginia-revokes-early-release-for-inmates-with-good-behavior--50640755https://therealnews.com/virginia-revokes-early-release-for-inmates-with-good-behavior

Lawmakers in Virginia have approved a draconian budget measure from Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that takes aim at inmates’ eligibility for early release. The new law prevents so-called “violent offenders” from applying credits earned for good behavior towards their early release. Even inmates who have already earned early release are being affected, with some families learning at the eleventh hour that their loved ones will no longer be allowed to come home. Prison reform activist Chari Baker, whose spouse is also incarcerated, recently confronted Governor Youngkin over his cruel decision to prolong the separation of families on the verge of being reunited. Baker joins Rattling the Bars co-host Mansa Musa to discuss the new Virginia law and what advocates, families, and incarcerated people are doing to fight back.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50640755Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:59:50 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/virginia-revokes-early-release-for-inmates-with-good-behavior Lawmakers in Virginia have approved a draconian budget measure from Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that takes aim at...https://therealnews.com/virginia-revokes-early-release-for-inmates-with-good-behavior

Lawmakers in Virginia have approved a draconian budget measure from Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that takes aim at inmates’ eligibility for early release. The new law prevents so-called “violent offenders” from applying credits earned for good behavior towards their early release. Even inmates who have already earned early release are being affected, with some families learning at the eleventh hour that their loved ones will no longer be allowed to come home. Prison reform activist Chari Baker, whose spouse is also incarcerated, recently confronted Governor Youngkin over his cruel decision to prolong the separation of families on the verge of being reunited. Baker joins Rattling the Bars co-host Mansa Musa to discuss the new Virginia law and what advocates, families, and incarcerated people are doing to fight back.

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]]>1785early_release,family_separation,glenn_youngkin,incarceration,mass_incarceration,prison,prisoners,prison_industrial_complex,prisons,virginiafalsefullChris Hedges on trauma and teaching writing in prisonhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chris-hedges-on-trauma-and-teaching-writing-in-prison--50640744https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-on-trauma-and-teaching-writing-in-prison

Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history at East Jersey State Prison (aka “Rahway”) and other New Jersey prisons. In one such course, after reading plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, Hedges’ students wrote a play of their own. The play, Caged, would eventually be published and performed at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, for a month-long run in 2018 to sold-out audiences. In his latest book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Hedges chronicles the journey he and his class embarked on together. Joining Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars, Hedges speaks about his book and the transformations he witnessed among the men he taught behind prison walls.

Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a columnist at ScheerPost. He formerly hosted the program Days of Revolt, produced by TRNN, and currently hosts The Chris Hedges Report. Hedges is the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, and Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50640744Mon, 18 Jul 2022 23:57:11 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRead the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-on-trauma-and-teaching-writing-in-prison Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama,...https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-on-trauma-and-teaching-writing-in-prison

Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history at East Jersey State Prison (aka “Rahway”) and other New Jersey prisons. In one such course, after reading plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, Hedges’ students wrote a play of their own. The play, Caged, would eventually be published and performed at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, for a month-long run in 2018 to sold-out audiences. In his latest book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Hedges chronicles the journey he and his class embarked on together. Joining Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars, Hedges speaks about his book and the transformations he witnessed among the men he taught behind prison walls.

Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a columnist at ScheerPost. He formerly hosted the program Days of Revolt, produced by TRNN, and currently hosts The Chris Hedges Report. Hedges is the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, and Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.

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]]>2129chris_hedges,education,incarceration,literature,mass_incarceration,prison,prisoners,prison_industrial_complex,prisonsfalsefullNew York prisons ban care packages containing foodhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/new-york-prisons-ban-care-packages-containing-food--50514787
Molly Hagan is a writer based in New York City, who has taught creative writing at the Women’s Prison Association.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50514787Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:50:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe prison-industrial complex has many ways of turning the incarceration of human beings into a profitable business model. In New York state, new regulations targeting care packages for prisoners show this logic at work. Friends and families of...
Molly Hagan is a writer based in New York City, who has taught creative writing at the Women’s Prison Association.

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]]>1950care_packages,extortion,incarceration,molly_hagan,new_york,prison,prison_industrial_complex,prisons,the_appealfalsefullHow Maryland is preventing prisoners from getting college degreeshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-maryland-is-preventing-prisoners-from-getting-college-degrees--50514769
Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to incarcerated people, yet all across America prisoners are prevented from pursuing their education. “Atiba” Demetrius Brown, for instance, has been dedicated to improving himself and his post-incarceration prospects by taking correspondence courses while incarcerated in Maryland, but thanks to a draconian new decree by the Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS), Atiba can’t take his exams. In this installment of Rattling the Bars, Victor Wallis joins Mansa Musa to discuss the case of “Atiba” Demetrius Brown and the calculated cruelty of the prison-industrial complex.

Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been involved in prisoner support activities since the 1970s in Indiana, and he is the author of numerous books, including Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on US Politics, which has been used in prison education projects.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50514769Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:47:03 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaUPDATE (7/1/2022): One day after this segment aired, prison authorities announced that they had “reconsidered” their earlier decision, clearing the way for Atiba to earn his degree. Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to...
Education is one of the few rehabilitative options available to incarcerated people, yet all across America prisoners are prevented from pursuing their education. “Atiba” Demetrius Brown, for instance, has been dedicated to improving himself and his post-incarceration prospects by taking correspondence courses while incarcerated in Maryland, but thanks to a draconian new decree by the Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS), Atiba can’t take his exams. In this installment of Rattling the Bars, Victor Wallis joins Mansa Musa to discuss the case of “Atiba” Demetrius Brown and the calculated cruelty of the prison-industrial complex.

Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been involved in prisoner support activities since the 1970s in Indiana, and he is the author of numerous books, including Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on US Politics, which has been used in prison education projects.

To contact “Atiba” Demetrius Brown:

Demetrius Brown #401226
sid #2642892
MCTC
18800 Roxbury Rd.
Hagerstown, MD 21746

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Hugh Ryan is a New York-based historian, curator, and author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison and When Brooklyn Was Queer.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50514749Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:42:33 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa"At least 40% of people incarcerated in American women’s prisons identify somewhere under the broad lesbian-bisexual-trans-queer umbrella—a shocking statistic that holds true when looking at detention centers for youths as well,” historian Hugh Ryan...
Hugh Ryan is a New York-based historian, curator, and author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison and When Brooklyn Was Queer.

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]]>1880hugh_ryan,incarceration,lgbtq,prison,prison_industrial_complex,prisonsfalsefullCutting incarcerated mothers off from their families hurts everyonehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cutting-incarcerated-mothers-off-from-their-families-hurts-everyone--50514722
Debra Bennet-Austin is the president and co-founder of Change Comes Now, a nonprofit “focused on assisting those who have been, are in danger of being, and who are currently impacted by the criminal legal system.” Bennet-Austin was formerly incarcerated for 19 years in the Florida Department of Corrections and has been home for four years.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50514722Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:39:36 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAs Wendy Sawyer and Wanda Bertram recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative, “Over half (58%) of all women in US prisons are mothers, as are 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply because they can’t...
Debra Bennet-Austin is the president and co-founder of Change Comes Now, a nonprofit “focused on assisting those who have been, are in danger of being, and who are currently impacted by the criminal legal system.” Bennet-Austin was formerly incarcerated for 19 years in the Florida Department of Corrections and has been home for four years.

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]]>1727children,family_reunification,family_separation,incarceration,mothers,prison,prison_industrial_complex,prisonsfalsefullThe prison-industrial complex is an environmental catastrophehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-prison-industrial-complex-is-an-environmental-catastrophe--50015354
Paul Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. He is also editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), the longest-running independent prisoner rights publication in US history. Wright has co-authored three PLN anthologies: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry; Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor; and Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Imprisonment.'

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50015354Tue, 31 May 2022 19:49:40 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa Musa“As a result of being on or near wastelands, prisons constantly expose those inside to serious environmental hazards, from tainted water to harmful air pollutants,” Leah Wang recently wrote for the Prison Policy Initiative. “These conditions manifest...
Paul Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. He is also editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), the longest-running independent prisoner rights publication in US history. Wright has co-authored three PLN anthologies: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry; Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor; and Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Imprisonment.'

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]]>1934falsefullImprisoned Ferguson activist ‘assaulted by guards, assaulted by Nazis’https://www.spreaker.com/episode/imprisoned-ferguson-activist-assaulted-by-guards-assaulted-by-nazis--50013053
Josh Davidson is an activist focusing on prisoner support and the abolition of the carceral state. He is involved in numerous social justice projects, including the Certain Days collective and the Children’s Art Project, and also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50013053Tue, 31 May 2022 16:41:59 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaEric King is an antifascist, antiracist, anarchist activist who is currently serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for throwing Molotov cocktails into an empty government office in Kansas City, Missouri, in solidarity with the 2014 uprisings after...
Josh Davidson is an activist focusing on prisoner support and the abolition of the carceral state. He is involved in numerous social justice projects, including the Certain Days collective and the Children’s Art Project, and also works in communications with the Zinn Education Project.

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1275falsefullPrisoners allege abuse at ‘shock’ campshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prisoners-allege-abuse-at-shock-camps--49403366
Keri Blakinger is a staff writer for The Marshall Project whose work focuses on prisons and jails. She writes “Inside Out,” a regular column published in collaboration with NBC News. She previously covered criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, VICE, the New York Daily News, and The New York Times. She is the The Marshall Project’s first formerly incarcerated reporter. Her memoir, Corrections in Ink, comes out in June 2022.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49403366Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:07:08 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaOn March 10, the Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in upstate New York closed its doors. Opponents to the closure said that the Moriah Shock facility provided essential jobs for the community and that the military bootcamp style of the...
Keri Blakinger is a staff writer for The Marshall Project whose work focuses on prisons and jails. She writes “Inside Out,” a regular column published in collaboration with NBC News. She previously covered criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, VICE, the New York Daily News, and The New York Times. She is the The Marshall Project’s first formerly incarcerated reporter. Her memoir, Corrections in Ink, comes out in June 2022.

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]]>1651abuse,blakinger,bootcamp,camps,drug,incarceration,keri,marshall,military,moriah,network,news,ny,prisons,project,real,shock,torturefalsefullThe for-profit companies charging prisoners to read their own mailhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-for-profit-companies-charging-prisoners-to-read-their-own-mail--49229589
Paul Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. He is also editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), the longest-running independent prisoner rights publication in US history. Wright has co-authored three PLN anthologies: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry; Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor; and Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Imprisonment.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49229589Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:07:22 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAccording to The Sentencing Project, “Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 115,428 people in 2019, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population.” However, while private prisons still make up a minority of carceral...
Paul Wright is the founder and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center. He is also editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), the longest-running independent prisoner rights publication in US history. Wright has co-authored three PLN anthologies: The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry; Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor; and Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Imprisonment.

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]]>1405falsefull'It is torture': Women in Maryland’s prisons have nowhere to turnhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-is-torture-women-in-maryland-s-prisons-have-nowhere-to-turn--48729976
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway and Charles Hopkins (Mansa Musa) speak with Nicole Hanson-Mundell, executive director of Out For Justice, about the Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act and the fight to add the construction of a standalone, community-based prerelease facility for women to the Department of Public and Correctional Service budget during their hearing on Feb. 17, 2022.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48729976Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:50:18 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPre-release and minimum security facilities connect incarcerated individuals to essential resources for re-entering society and to opportunities for work release, special leave, compassionate leave, and family leave. In the state of Maryland, there...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway and Charles Hopkins (Mansa Musa) speak with Nicole Hanson-Mundell, executive director of Out For Justice, about the Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act and the fight to add the construction of a standalone, community-based prerelease facility for women to the Department of Public and Correctional Service budget during their hearing on Feb. 17, 2022.

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]]>1934falsefullRevolt against the carceral worldhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revolt-against-the-carceral-world--48633288
In 2021, TRNN Executive Producer and host of Rattling the Bars Eddie Conway joined a blockbuster panel of scholars and activists for the American Studies Association (ASA) to discuss these very questions. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, with permission from the ASA and the panel participants, we are publishing the video recording of this panel, which is entitled “Revolt Against the Carceral World” and is hosted by Professor Dylan Rodríguez.

Dylan Rodríguez (host) is Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and is President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). Rodríguez is a founding member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and Critical Resistance, a national carceral abolitionist organization, and he is the author of three books.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48633288Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:04:42 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWith 2.1 million incarcerated people, the United States has the largest prison population in the world. But America’s prison system is part of a larger social apparatus that predominantly targets, criminalizes, and polices poor people and people of...
In 2021, TRNN Executive Producer and host of Rattling the Bars Eddie Conway joined a blockbuster panel of scholars and activists for the American Studies Association (ASA) to discuss these very questions. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, with permission from the ASA and the panel participants, we are publishing the video recording of this panel, which is entitled “Revolt Against the Carceral World” and is hosted by Professor Dylan Rodríguez.

Dylan Rodríguez (host) is Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and is President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021). Rodríguez is a founding member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association and Critical Resistance, a national carceral abolitionist organization, and he is the author of three books.

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5993falsefullAn Arkansas jail tested ivermectin ‘treatment’ on detainees without their consenthttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-arkansas-jail-tested-ivermectin-treatment-on-detainees-without-their-consent--48525480
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, speaks about these revelations and the impending federal lawsuit with Gary Sullivan, legal director for the ACLU of Arkansas, and Zachary Crow, director of decARcerate, a grassroots coalition working to end mass incarceration in Arkansas with and on behalf of prisoners and their families.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48525480Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:40:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas on behalf of inmates who say the jail’s medical staff, led by Dr. Robert Karas, prescribed and gave them ivermectin to...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, speaks about these revelations and the impending federal lawsuit with Gary Sullivan, legal director for the ACLU of Arkansas, and Zachary Crow, director of decARcerate, a grassroots coalition working to end mass incarceration in Arkansas with and on behalf of prisoners and their families.

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1071falsefullHow Maryland prisoners took on the governorhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-maryland-prisoners-took-on-the-governor--48241050
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway and cohost-in-training Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, speak with Walter Lomax about his incarceration and the long fight to change Maryland’s parole system. After being fully exonerated in 2014, Walter Lomax became the face of the effort to fix the state’s compensation system for wrongfully convicted and imprisoned Marylanders, culminating in the passage of “The Walter Lomax Act” in 2021. He is also the founder and executive director of the Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that advocates for humane and sensible criminal justice and sentencing policies for those incarcerated long term in Maryland prisons.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48241050Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:34:42 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWalter Lomax was wrongfully imprisoned in the state of Maryland for 39 years until he eventually had his conviction vacated by a judge in 2006. While he was incarcerated and fighting for his freedom, Lomax worked with other inmates on the long process...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway and cohost-in-training Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, speak with Walter Lomax about his incarceration and the long fight to change Maryland’s parole system. After being fully exonerated in 2014, Walter Lomax became the face of the effort to fix the state’s compensation system for wrongfully convicted and imprisoned Marylanders, culminating in the passage of “The Walter Lomax Act” in 2021. He is also the founder and executive director of the Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization that advocates for humane and sensible criminal justice and sentencing policies for those incarcerated long term in Maryland prisons.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47909543Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:31:49 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter spending the past year and a half socially distancing, millions around the country will be coming together to celebrate the holidays this year with a renewed appreciation for seeing and being with loved ones. For those who are locked away in...
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]]>1030falsefull‘How juveniles are railroaded by the criminal justice system’https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-juveniles-are-railroaded-by-the-criminal-justice-system--47839670
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway talks with Churaman and his attorney Jose Nieves about how the criminal justice system railroads juveniles into false confessions, and about the ongoing fight to get all charges against Churaman dropped.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47839670Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:02:39 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn 2014, at the age of 15, Prakash Churaman was arrested at his home at 6AM without a warrant. After driving him around for a few hours, police brought Churaman to the 113th Precinct and, as Churaman and his attorney maintain, coerced a confession out...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway talks with Churaman and his attorney Jose Nieves about how the criminal justice system railroads juveniles into false confessions, and about the ongoing fight to get all charges against Churaman dropped.

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]]>1776falsefullThe death penalty is a barbarous stain on our humanityhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-death-penalty-is-a-barbarous-stain-on-our-humanity--47710924
Sister Helen Prejean has spent much of her life as a Catholic nun bearing witness to the violent inhumanity of state executions and campaigning to abolish the death penalty. Her work has been recognized around the world, including by the Pope, and has been instrumental in advancing national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, and River of Fire: On Becoming an Activist. In this special episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway sits down to speak with Sister Prejean about the barbarous injustice of state-sanctioned executions and her own path to becoming a leading advocate for death penalty abolition.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47710924Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:38:52 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAccording to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, even though they have doubts about its administration, fairness, and usefulness as a crime deterrent, most Americans today still support the death penalty. Moreover, while it may seem like a...
Sister Helen Prejean has spent much of her life as a Catholic nun bearing witness to the violent inhumanity of state executions and campaigning to abolish the death penalty. Her work has been recognized around the world, including by the Pope, and has been instrumental in advancing national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. She is also the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, and River of Fire: On Becoming an Activist. In this special episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway sits down to speak with Sister Prejean about the barbarous injustice of state-sanctioned executions and her own path to becoming a leading advocate for death penalty abolition.

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1846falsefull‘This is COINTELPRO 2021’https://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-cointelpro-2021--47608231
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47608231Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:06:02 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter spending nearly half a century in prison, leftist revolutionaries and political prisoners David Gilbert and Russell Maroon Shoatz (who also spent 22 years in solitary confinement) were released earlier this year. In this episode of Rattling the...
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]]>1385falsefull‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’https://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-want-rikers-closed-and-no-new-jails-in-its-place--47491284
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Olayemi Olurin about the ongoing crisis at Rikers and the renewed wave of outrage from the public and elected officials who are demanding that the jail be closed for good. Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47491284Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:13:06 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFor years, prisoners, activists, and legal advocates have been drawing attention to the inhumane conditions at Rikers Island, New York’s most infamous jail complex. But the COVID-19 pandemic turned what was already a dire situation at Rikers into a...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Olayemi Olurin about the ongoing crisis at Rikers and the renewed wave of outrage from the public and elected officials who are demanding that the jail be closed for good. Olurin is a public defender and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and an analyst at the Law & Crime Network.

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]]>1547falsefullSurviving the darkness: Eddie Conway speaks with Guantánamo Bay detainee Mansoor Adayfihttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surviving-the-darkness-eddie-conway-speaks-with-guantanamo-bay-detainee-mansoor-adayfi--47391183
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47391183Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:03:36 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaMansoor Adayfi, “Detainee No. 441,” was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay for over 14 years without charges as an enemy combatant. As detailed in the description for Adafyi’s new book Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo, “Arriving as a...
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]]>2656falsefullWhy is Alabama using federal COVID relief funds to build prisons?https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-is-alabama-using-federal-covid-relief-funds-to-build-prisons--47145516
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47145516Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:59:58 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPresident Joe Biden signed a major $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that provided funds to cities and states around the country to recover from devastating effects of the pandemic. Regardless of widespread condemnation and criticism, Alabama’s...
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]]>1165falsefullA staggering number of inmates have died in Louisiana prisonshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-staggering-number-of-inmates-have-died-in-louisiana-prisons--47034249
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/47034249Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:29:21 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn the state of Louisiana, 786 inmates—none of whom were ever sentenced to death—died behind bars between 2015-2019 while serving out their prison sentences. Since Black people are already incarcerated at disproportionate rates, these deaths have been...
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]]>1961falsefull‘Fighting to free our people’: 55 years of the Black Panther Partyhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fighting-to-free-our-people-55-years-of-the-black-panther-party--46994286
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46994286Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:43:35 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn October of 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California. Since then, the Panthers have been a driving radical force for Black liberation, self-defense, and community organization and self-determination. In this special episode...
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]]>1132falsefullAs Delta surges in prisons, states stop sharing statistics with the publichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/as-delta-surges-in-prisons-states-stop-sharing-statistics-with-the-public--46713180
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with professors Kathryn M. Nowotny and Zinzi Bailey of the COVID Prison Project about the concerning reality that we simply don’t have good information about COVID-19 infections and deaths connected to the prison system. Kathryn M. Nowotny is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami and is a co-lead investigator and co-founder of the COVID Prison Project; Zinzi Bailey is a research assistant professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and project investigator for the COVID Prison Project.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46713180Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:13:02 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAs we’ve covered previously on Rattling the Bars, prisons in the US have been a major source of COVID-19 infections throughout the pandemic, and experts have suggested that the reality is even worse than the limited data have shown. Now, as the more...
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with professors Kathryn M. Nowotny and Zinzi Bailey of the COVID Prison Project about the concerning reality that we simply don’t have good information about COVID-19 infections and deaths connected to the prison system. Kathryn M. Nowotny is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami and is a co-lead investigator and co-founder of the COVID Prison Project; Zinzi Bailey is a research assistant professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and project investigator for the COVID Prison Project.

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]]>1489falsefullCuba & the US: A tale of two prison systemshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cuba-the-us-a-tale-of-two-prison-systems--46618965
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46618965Tue, 21 Sep 2021 14:47:39 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn this episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway discusses the differences between prisons in Cuba and in the United States. Of the two, only one incarcerates children, only one deliberately isolates...
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]]>340falsefullRemembering Gloria Richardsonhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remembering-gloria-richardson--46300803
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46300803Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:49:55 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaTRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks to author and activist Dominque Conway about Gloria Richardson, a fierce activist who led a multi-year campaign against segregation in Cambridge, Md. Richardson, who died July 15,...
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]]>1252falsefullEddie Conway: Slave labor has always been the bedrock of capitalismhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eddie-conway-slave-labor-has-always-been-the-bedrock-of-capitalism--46207183
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46207183Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:32:06 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn recent episodes of Rattling the Bars, TRNN’s weekly show on the violence and victims of the prison-industrial complex, legendary Black Panther and longtime political prisoner Eddie Conway and his guests have examined the 13th Amendment, the...
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]]>3627falsefullRemembering George Jackson, revolutionary author and activisthttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remembering-george-jackson-revolutionary-author-and-activist--46131418
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46131418Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:18:27 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaTo celebrate Black August, TRNN Executive Producer and former Black Panther Eddie Conway talks with Claude Marks about the life and legacy of revolutionary author and activist George Jackson 50 years after his assassination. Help us continue...
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]]>1395falsefullSlavery still exists in the US, but these CA organizers are working to end ithttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/slavery-still-exists-in-the-us-but-these-ca-organizers-are-working-to-end-it--46053644
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46053644Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:23:14 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThanks to the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the US in the form of low- or no-wage prison labor. But organizers like Jeronimo Aguilar and John Cannon are working to end this practice for good. Help us continue producing radically independent...
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]]>1953falsefullBig business exploits prison labor instead of paying fairer wageshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-business-exploits-prison-labor-instead-of-paying-fairer-wages--45967334
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45967334Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:24:32 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter surviving a deadly pandemic, workers in the US are reluctant to return to unsafe workplaces for poverty wages. Rather than offer better pay, protections, and benefits, businesses are choosing to exploit prison labor. Help us continue producing...
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]]>1499falsefullConnecticut made prison phone calls free. Other states should do the samehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/connecticut-made-prison-phone-calls-free-other-states-should-do-the-same--45845744
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45845744Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:05:51 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAfter Gov. Ned Lamont signed a new bill into law in June, Connecticut became the first state in the US to make phone calls free for incarcerated people, including those in juvenile detention facilities. Studies show that having access to phone calls...
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]]>1345falsefull1998 mass shooter still used to justify life sentences for juvenileshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1998-mass-shooter-still-used-to-justify-life-sentences-for-juveniles--45769098
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45769098Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:34:47 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaKip Kinkel was publicly reviled when, suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, he shot and killed his mother and father before killing two of his classmates and wounding 25 others in a mass shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield,...
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]]>1643falsefullThe US is the ONLY country sentencing children to life without parole. A movement is fighting backhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-us-is-the-only-country-sentencing-children-to-life-without-parole-a-movement-is-fighting-back--45694793
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45694793Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:47:06 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaSonia Kumar, senior attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, explains the movement to restore the parole option to people sentenced for serious crimes in childhood. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us...
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]]>933falsefullU.S. Supreme Court ruling makes it easier for judges to give young people life sentences. Now what?https://www.spreaker.com/episode/u-s-supreme-court-ruling-makes-it-easier-for-judges-to-give-young-people-life-sentences-now-what--45627105
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45627105Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:39:58 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaACLU legal expert Sonia Kumar says the ruling slows but does not stop the movement toward more just sentencing for juveniles. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation:...
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]]>1146falsefullHow an entire Black community was poisonedhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-an-entire-black-community-was-poisoned--45530367
In this episode of “Rattling the Bars,” Eddie Conway is joined by James Manigault-Bryant to discuss how the military-industrial complex poisoned residents of Tallevast and destroyed their property, their environment, and their health. Manigault-Bryant is professor of Africana Studies at Williams College, a descendent of one of Tallevast’s founding families, and co-author of the Boston Review article “Poisoning Tallevast.”

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45530367Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:09:10 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaWhat does 'environmental racism' mean? What does it look like in practice? When researchers discovered that residents of the small, unincorporated, predominantly Black community of Tallevast, Florida, were experiencing abnormally high rates of cancer...
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]]>2476falsefullThe latest on the deadly effects of COVID-19 in prisonshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-latest-on-the-deadly-effects-of-covid-19-in-prisons--45530362
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45530362Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:08:37 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaEddie Conway talks to two experts about the latest infection rates, issues with transparency, and more. Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and making a small donation: Donate:...
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]]>1276falsefullFrance's attempts to extradite Hassan Diab have chilling implications (EXTENDED INTERVIEW)https://www.spreaker.com/episode/france-s-attempts-to-extradite-hassan-diab-have-chilling-implications-extended-interview--45530356
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45530356Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:08:04 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaThe French government has renewed its attempts to extradite professor and exonerated terrorism suspect Hassan Diab. In this extended interview, we talk with Roger Clark of the Hassan Diab Support Committee and Monia Mazigh on the latest developments...
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]]>2945falsefullHassan Diab is accused of a deadly explosion. Supporters say his continued persecution isn't justicehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hassan-diab-is-accused-of-a-deadly-explosion-supporters-say-his-continued-persecution-isn-t-justice--45530353
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45530353Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:07:25 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaRoger Clark of the Hassan Diab Support Committee and author and human rights academic Monia Mazigh say officials based their case against Diab on problematic evidence. They update TRNN host Eddie Conway about the latest information out of this...
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]]>1661falsefullThe unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisonshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unending-covid-19-disaster-in-maryland-prisons--44148711
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44148711Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:34:42 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn this episode of "Rattling the Bars," we get an inside and outside view of the ongoing, slow-moving disaster happening in Maryland prisons, which have failed to adequately protect inmates, guards, and the surrounding communities from COVID-19. TRNN...
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]]>1676falsefullCalifornia prisons: A public health disasterhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/california-prisons-a-public-health-disaster--43937337
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43937337Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:45:19 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaCalifornia is experiencing a public health disaster by keeping people incarcerated in overcrowded, unsanitary, and violent conditions. TRN Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Amber-Rose Howard, Executive Director of Californians United for a...
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]]>1401falsefullMumia has COVID-19, supporters demand his releasehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mumia-has-covid-19-supporters-demand-his-release--43843355Phone numbers mentioned during this episode:
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43843355Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:05:41 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn this urgent, unscheduled episode of “Rattling the Bars,” Eddie Conway talks to Pam Africa, legendary Philadelphia activist and head of the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, about the health of longtime prisoner Mumia...Phone numbers mentioned during this episode:
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]]>786falsefullGreek political prisoner is at death’s doorhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/greek-political-prisoner-is-at-death-s-door--43829347
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43829347Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:59:11 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaSince 2002, Greek revolutionary and activist Dimitris Koufontinas has been in prison for his role in the Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N). Labelled a “terrorist” by the Greek government, Koufontinas began a hunger strike on Jan. 8, 2021,...
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]]>1602falsefullBlack mass incarceration in the so-called Free Statehttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-mass-incarceration-in-the-so-called-free-state--43706033
While officials like Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan say they're reducing incarceration rates and improving prison conditions, the data tells a different story. For instance, the Justice Policy Institute's report "Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland" shows that Maryland incarcerates Black people at more than twice the national rate and leads the country in incarcerating young Black men. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," Eddie Conway speaks with Justice Policy Institute's Marc Schindler and returning citizen Shasta Deen about how the repercussions of slavery are still felt in Maryland's justice system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43706033Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:36:13 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaUntil recently, the horrifyingly unjust reality of America’s mass incarceration system has not been a central concern in popular political discourse. In the past few years, however, more people have learned about the brutality and inhumanity of mass...
While officials like Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan say they're reducing incarceration rates and improving prison conditions, the data tells a different story. For instance, the Justice Policy Institute's report "Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland" shows that Maryland incarcerates Black people at more than twice the national rate and leads the country in incarcerating young Black men. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," Eddie Conway speaks with Justice Policy Institute's Marc Schindler and returning citizen Shasta Deen about how the repercussions of slavery are still felt in Maryland's justice system.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43575522Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:36:12 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaFlint Taylor and Jeff Haas, co-founders of the People’s Law Office in Chicago, were the lead lawyers in the landmark case that exposed the FBI’s involvement in the assassination of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. While that case was...
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]]>1997falsefullRefusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUShttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/refusing-to-vaccinate-prisoners-is-both-cruel-and-dangerous--43575469
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43575469Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:29:58 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaPublic health experts and advocates continue to shine a light on the horrifying statistics of COVID-19 infections within the prison-industrial complex. Those same experts, moreover, have shown that outbreaks in prisons and jails spread quickly and...
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]]>1323falsefullPrisoners have power in their own wordshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prisoners-have-power-in-their-own-words--43575465
In 1980, Conway participated in and helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “Say Their Own Word,” where thinkers and scholars came to Maryland Penitentiary and spoke about topics like impending U.S. fascism, the prison-industrial complex, capitalism, increasing surveillance, and many other issues that have become even more pressing today. These speakers included Amiri Baraka, Askia Muhammad, Bruce Franklin, Nijole Benokraitis, and Charlie Cobb. As part of an ongoing series, TRNN will be speaking with these individuals about their predictions in 1980 and how they resonate today. In this installment of the series, former Rattling the Bars producer Ericka Blount interviews Conway, who is now a free man and TRNN Executive Producer.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43575465Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:28:54 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaEddie Conway, former Lieutenant of Security for the Baltimore Black Panther Party, was locked up on dubious charges and held as a political prisoner for over 40 years. Conway is part of a generation of Black radicals and revolutionaries who were...
In 1980, Conway participated in and helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “Say Their Own Word,” where thinkers and scholars came to Maryland Penitentiary and spoke about topics like impending U.S. fascism, the prison-industrial complex, capitalism, increasing surveillance, and many other issues that have become even more pressing today. These speakers included Amiri Baraka, Askia Muhammad, Bruce Franklin, Nijole Benokraitis, and Charlie Cobb. As part of an ongoing series, TRNN will be speaking with these individuals about their predictions in 1980 and how they resonate today. In this installment of the series, former Rattling the Bars producer Ericka Blount interviews Conway, who is now a free man and TRNN Executive Producer.

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]]>1644falsefullCharlie Cobb: 'Protest is necessary ... but it is not sufficient.'https://www.spreaker.com/episode/charlie-cobb-protest-is-necessary-but-it-is-not-sufficient--43575337
As part of an ongoing series for TRNN’s Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway speaks with these individuals about their predictions in 1980 and how they resonate today. This interview is with longtime civil rights activist, journalist, and author of “This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed,” Charlie Cobb.

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43575337Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:14:21 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaIn 1980, Eddie Conway participated in and helped organize a prisoners’ educational outreach program called “To Say Their Own Words,” where thinkers and scholars came to Maryland Penitentiary and spoke about topics like impending U.S. fascism, the...
As part of an ongoing series for TRNN’s Rattling the Bars, Eddie Conway speaks with these individuals about their predictions in 1980 and how they resonate today. This interview is with longtime civil rights activist, journalist, and author of “This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed,” Charlie Cobb.

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]]>3122falsefull'Bring Sundiata home': The case for freeing elderly political prisonershttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bring-sundiata-home-the-case-for-freeing-elderly-political-prisoners--43575262
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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43575262Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:03:47 +0000Former political prisoner Mansa MusaAt 84 years old, Sundiata Acoli has been in prison for 48 years, and has been denied parole six times. Last December, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, Rev. Lukata Mjumbe of the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign joins...
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