Amy Goodman
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks Out from Jail on New Pennsylvania Law Silencing Prisoners
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10:10Now PlayingPennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is set to sign into law a bill critics say will trample the free speech rights of prisoners. Last week, lawmakers openly said they passed the legislation as a way to target one of the state's most wellknown prisonersjournalist and former Black Panther, Mumia AbuJamal, who was convicted in 1982 of killing of a Philadelphia police officer, but has long maintained his innocence. During a late night vote last Tuesday, the Pennsylvania House unanimously approved the "Revictimization Relief Act," which authorizes the censoring of public addresses of prisoners or former offenders if judges agree that allowing them to speak would cause "mental anguish" to the victim. The measure was introduced after AbuJamal delivered a pretaped commencement address for graduating students at Vermont’s Goddard College earlier this month. We air AbuJamal’s response to the bill and speak to Noelle Hanrahan, founder of Prison Radio, which has been recording and distributing AbuJamal's commentaries from prison since 1992.
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