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Introduction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's Jailhouse Lawyers By Angela Davis

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Introduction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's Jailhouse Lawyers By Angela Davis March 02, 2009 http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20752 One of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent more than twenty-five years behind bars, the majority of that time on death row. He is supported by millions all over the planet, not only because of the egregious repression he has suffered at the hands of the state of Pennsylvania, but because he has used his abundant talents as a thinker and writer to expand our knowledge of the hidden world of jails, prisons, and death houses in which he has spent the last decades of his life. As a transformative thinker, he has always taken care to emphasize the connections between incarcerated lives and lives that unfold in the putative arenas of freedom...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).