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Mumia Abu Jamal on 28 years of incarceration

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published December 11, 2009.

This week marks the 28th anniversary of the incarceration of author and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, whose commentaries are heard on FSRN. Abu Jamal was arrested in Philadelphia on December 9, 1981 for the shooting death of Police officer Daniel Faulkner. A jury unanimously sentenced him to death but Abu Jamal has always maintained his innocence. Prison Radio Producer Noelle Hanrahan interviewed Abu Jamal about entering his 29th year of incarceration.