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Tear Down Those Prison Walls
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 Aug 2017
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In an essay for Prison Radio, Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal said the U.S. has created “a nation of millions in chains” -- a “Prison Nation fueled by the politics of fear.” Prison abolition, he said, “is a question that is now right on time for us all.”

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