Prison Focus Radio

We hear more wisdom from Ikemba from a Colorado prison; Nube speaks with Principal thinker and co-author of the Agreement to End Hostilities, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa; Nube reads and letter from a wife of a loved one regarding CDCr's medical neglect and weaponizing covid; We hear from Mwalimu about the change of administration.

Nube reads an SF Bay View article and a Prison Focus article both by Michael Zaharibu Dorrough, current focus of Liberate Our Caged Elders campaign; we hear an update from Mwalimu at Corcoran; and spotlight Artivist work by CPF co-director Minister King and Freedom Songs 2021 Mixtape Fundraiser.

Nube reads two letters from California and NC prisons; We hear from Elsie of Sistas with Voices; and a shortened update from Mwalimu at Corcoran

Nube speaks with the wise Ikemba serving a life sentence in Colorado; we hear from Joelle, also caged in Colorado, about his celly dying from medical neglect and covid.

This week we hear from loved ones, family and friends; Nube reads her letter to BOP director Michael Carvajal; we hear from Thelma and Anthony about their loved one Joseph; and Casper, a prisoner in Colorado on the death of his friend.

Nube speaks with Alesha Monteiro, wife of Anthony caged in a California prison, mother and activist; Nube will also share her personal take on the denial by the BOP and GEO Group for home confinement with her partner in love, Malik Washington

Donald "C-Note" Hooker on the Ratcliff Awards by California Prison Focus

Nube speaks with imprisoned co-author of "The Solution: Medical Health Assistants;" We hear from family member of loved one inside KVSP; Mwalimu from Corcoran on Covid as a weapon; Easley on Covid response inside Toledo Correctional Facility in Ohio

Nube spends the hour with imprisoned activist, organizer and visionary, Joka Heshima Jinsai. Also, we hear this week's Prison Focus Mailbox

Covid report from California State Prison - Los Angeles County (CSP-LAC) September 17, 2020 Read by California Prison Focus volunteer, Max Friedman Produced by Prison Focus Editor, Kim Pollak. To learn more about the issues, to support CPF or to learn how you can get involved, visit www.prisons.org. You can listen to the complete song, Abolish it, and more from Min King X aka Pyeface on itunes.

We hear from Ifoma Modibo Kambon, the current focus of the Liberate Our Caged Elders social media campaign; Nube reads an excerpt about Strategic Release from an article by Joka Heshima Jinsai

Nube and Malik speak with Kwame Teague, imprisoned best-selling author of the street classic Dutch Trilogy and Humanist; also Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia of POOR Magazine; Mwalimu Shakur on prisoner organizing around Covid-19 in San Quentin and Corcoran.

Nube speaks with Lisa Strawn, free after 25 years, and dynamic; also Jay Rene of Hip Hop Humanism.

October 22, 2020 Nube and Malik speak with Tasha Williams about the ongoing retaliation against her husband Talib, and we launch the phone zap to support against it; Nube speaks with Makini Iyapo about the decades-long struggle to release the elders, and shares her thoughts on the LCV social media campaign to Liberate Our Caged Elders, of which her husband is the first focus.

We'll be speaking with Kwame Shakur of the New Afrikan Liberation Committee; reading an article by inside organization PHERM on Prop 20; Prison Focus Mailbox

Conversation with Premier Abolitionist Max Parthas, we also hear from Ifoma on surviving covid behind the walls; Prison Focus Mailbox

Covid report from Ironwood State Prison: Ken reports on conditions at Ironwood State Prison, including the staffs' utter disregard for peoples' health, safety or well being. August 23, 2020 Read and produced by Prison Focus Chief Editor, Kim Pollak. Music by CPF Co-Director Minister of culture and arts, Min King X aka General Pyeface can be found on itunes. To support California Prison Focus in ou...

This week we look at forced sterilization of women prisoners; revisit the Agreement to End Hostilities; hear excerpts from booklet The Evil Dehumanizing Practice within the Short Corridor Torture Chamber by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa & Mutope Duguma; listen to Mwalimu Shakur resisting guard harassment; and the Prison Focus Mailbox.

The threat of Covid-19 looms large inside California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations' California Medical Facility. July 22, 2020 Read and produced by Prison Focus Chief Editor, Kim Pollak. Music by CPF Co-Director Minister of culture and arts, Min King X aka General Pyeface can be found on itunes. To support California Prison Focus in our mission to expose and end the atrocities taki...

SATF-CSP, Corcoran, September 26, 2020. Special guest phone call from long-time CPF friend and ally, and personal friend of Min. King X, Michael "Zah" Dorrough. Zah gives a live update on Covid-19 at SVSP. Produced by Prison Focus Chief Editor, Kim Pollak. Music by CPF Co-Director Minister of culture and arts, Min King X aka General Pyeface can be found on itunes. To support California Prison Focu...

An update from RJ Donovan State Prison, August 23, 2020. Like Cointelpro, CA Dept of Corrections and so-called Rehabilitation uses the Divide and Conquer strategy to make sure their prisons never sit empty, and some people will never go home. To learn more about 1030s (Confidential Information Disclosure Forms) and the harm being done through the use of unreliable information by California officia...

This week we hear info about the Racial Justice Act, a bit of schooling from Mwalimu Shakur, uplift from Malik Washington (Assistant Editor of the S.F. Bayview) and Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson (revolutionary, author and activist). Alert on forced sterilization in women’s prisons. PF Mailbox

Final part of the conversation with Paul Redd, political prisoner placed in solitary confinement for his work organizing hunger strikes and speaking out about CDCr human right's violations. Prison Focus Mailbox

January 21, 2020. CA Correctional Institute. CPF correspondent, Martin, describes the mind numbing content of prison tv programming, and the overall lack of educational opportunities. "Literacy played an important part in helping Frederick Douglass achieve his freedom. Learning to read and write enlightened his mind to the injustice of slavery; it kindled in his heart longings for liberty... Dougl...

August 2020. CPF Correspondent describes conditions at CMC State Prison. He is 59 years old and has health conditions making him at high risk for "execution by Covid-19". See prisons.org/action to learn more about what's going on behind the walls of California prisons and how you can make a difference. Support California Prison Focus at prisons.org/donate. To hear the entire sone, Abolish It, and...