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Hello everybody. This is Steven Lynn Nicholson again, over here in Jackson, Michigan, doing an old poem/verse. First song I did back when I was, like 16 years old, just pulling something out of the…

Mimi Rosenberg:  Welcome to Sprouts: Radio From the Grassroots, a weekly program that showcases radio production by independent community media. We bring you local stories to a global audience, produced at a different location each…

My Prisoner Creative Arts Program [PCAP} out of University of Michigan. Song number three. PCAP recharge. PCAP recharge. Every single week I need my PCAP recharge. Art is sparked from hurting hearts. PCAP pulled the broke about the dark. PCAP…

This is Larry Stromberg, SCI Phoenix, in Pennsylvania. This is my poem, “Christmas Peace,” for anyone who’s struggling during the holidays. So, “Christmas Peace.” Struggling during the holidays,Incarcerated with suicidal thoughts. Memories of the past control…

“The Virginia Model: Collective Punishment.” Today is December 1st, 2025. Collective punishment — recognized worldwide as illegal and immoral. In Virginia DOC [Dept. of Corrections], collective punishment is regularly used. Over the holiday weekend, Thanksgiving,…

Hey, everybody this is Running River with A.I.M.P.A., American Indian Movement People’s Alliance, the Pennsylvania chapter. I wanted to tell everybody to support my new book, Two Eagles Lodge, a story about the sweat lodge…

Mumia was participating in a conference entitled “From Partition to Solidarity” held on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025 at the behest of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Mumia Abu-Jamal: I greet you all, especially sister Rabab, who invited…

His name rings with the clang of an icon, perhaps because he was. Known as Imam Jamil al Amin, he lived at least two lives as an icon, his pre-conversion life as a Black nationalist,…

This is Larry Stromberg, SCI Phoenix in Pennsylvania. This is my short play entitled Stages. So, hope you like it. Stages My name is a number. I’ve been incarcerated about 30 years now, I committed…

I don’t know that there’s any appropriate apology for this, but I pray that the best apology I can give you is my behavior since that — since my tragic actions, I hope my behavior…

Two months and six days. That’s all it took to decide the course of my life. It was that brief span of time, the amount of time that I knew my co defendants, that has…

Hi. This is Raymond Jenkins calling from Corcoran State Prison and today is November the 24th. It’s the Thanksgiving month. I know Thanksgiving is Thursday, so inmates and prisoners wanted to wish everybody a happy…

My name is Ekong Eshiet. I’m currently being held out at Indiana [unclear] Department of Corrections at Westville Correctional Facility. My Indiana DOC number is 304103.  I got sent out here on an interstate compact…

Hi, my name is Calipree and I’m a transgender female in a men’s prison. Ever since I got arrested in September 2020, I was forced to choose which race to gang up with. I am gay…

This is Larry Stromberg, SCI-Phoenix in Pennsylvania.  And, this is a redraft of my poem called “Penitentiary Theater,” which will be published with PEN America, the Zen Remnants, Remnants of You. So, this is “Penitentiary…

The U.S. gets kudos all around the world for its heralded First Amendment rights, including the right to freedom of speech. Does the record suggest that? Let’s examine it.  Years ago, during the last month…

Hello everybody, it’s Steven Lynn Nicholson again here in Jackson, Michigan. As always, help fund and donate to prisonradio.org, not that they’re asking, but I am, and PCAP, Prisoner Creative Arts Program in University of…

Peace. This is KnowledgeBorn GodAllah, calling from Pelican Bay State Prison.  On 10/30/2025, Police Officer Ford wrote a 115 on God for being out of bounds, as I was facilitating our God-centered culture for observation…

**** my life. I was given life without the possibility of a parole date. Back against this cage, suffering, Knowing we can be judged for mistakes made when we were 20. Forever. Ignorance, far from…

Today is November 5th, 2025. It is a hallmark of the Virginia DOC, a staple of The Virginia Model; retaliation and retribution dished out by the lackeys, approved, often ordered by the administrators. One of…