’Nuff respect due to the diligent and very necessary work of Prison Radio!

Following are excerpts from a audio transcript:

Mumia Abu-Jamal

On a move! A few words in support of the efforts of Prison Radio and Noelle Hanrahhan, its executive director, to raise funds to keep the wolf from the door. If you are a longtime listen er to my commentaries, you have Prison Radio to thank for them.

In 1992, Prison Radio began recordings from the state dungeon at Huntingdon, Pa. If you walked in on us, you would have thought you were in the control booth of a funky radio station. We did good work together, so good in fact that NPR (National Public Radio) asked us to share our work with them, until they got scared off.

The Prison Radio has done far more than pass me the mike. It has given us the haunted voices of jail juveniles, incarcerated kids, those who are truly rarely heard. It is also told the story of women behind bars, for example AIDS patients and survivors at the dungeon at Chowchilla, Calif.

[An interruption occurred during this taping with, “This call is from a correctional institution and is subject to monitoring and recording.”]

I guess you heard that. In short, Prison Radio has brought you the voices of those behind the walls—the fastest-growing publi-housing development in America. For this and its other works, it deserves your generous financial support. Thanks. From Prison Radio, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. (Visit www.prisonradio.org)