International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Books: - Live from Death Row (Harper Perennial, 1995) - Death Blossoms (Common Notions, 1996) - All Things Censored (Seven Stories, 2000) - Faith of Our Fathers (Africa World Press, 2003) - We Want Freedom (Common Notions, 2004) - Jailhouse Lawyers (City Lights, 2009) - The Classroom and the Cell (Third World Press, 2011) - Writing on the Wall (City Lights, 2015) - Have Black Lives Ever Mattered (City Lights 2016) - Murder Incorporated, - Volume One: Dreaming of Empire (Prison Radio, 2018) - Volume Two: America's Favorite Pastime (Prison Radio, 2019) - *Soon-to-be-released:* Perfecting Tyranny (Prison Radio 2020). His work has been published in French, Japanese, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian.
Info from Black Philly Radical Collective
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner from North Philadelphia. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School in North Philadelphia and joined the Black Panther Party in 1968. As the spokesperson for the BPP, Mumia was targeted by the Philadelphia Police Department and the FBI for his activism. After the Black Panther Party dissolved, Mumia settled down and started a family. He became an award-winning journalist whose reporting on police brutality led then mayor Frank Rizzo to threaten him. In 1981, Mumia was driving a cab in order to make extra money to care for his family. As he approached 13th and Locust, he noticed his younger brother involved in an altercation with the police officer. The police officer was killed during the altercation and Mumia was shot in the stomach. In 1982, Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted of the murder of the Philadelphia police officer and sentence to death after a trial that international observers say was unfair, unconstitutional, and racist. The judge presided over his case was famously quoted as saying, "I'm going to help them fry the n-word." Mumia spent close to 30 years on death row and came close to being executed in 1995 before an international outcry prevented it. The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police actively campaigned for his death. Mumia's death sentence was overturned in 2011 and he is currently serving life without parole. Mumia has always maintained his innocence. He is currently suffering from multiple medical ailments including cirrhosis of the liver caused by the prison's delay in treating his Hepatitis C. He is 66 years old. He is presently imprisoned in State Correctional Institute Mahoney (SCI-Mahoney).
USPS MAIL
Here is the "how to send a letter" to Mumia. They scan and copy and give him the copies of all mail, pictures, cards etc. No original paper goes into him. Books are different see below re books.
Mail: takes 10-20 days to reach him:
Smart Communications/PADOC
Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335
SCI Mahanoy
PO Box 33028
St Petersburg, FL 33733
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