In this May 2021 episode of Prison Riot Radio, host and podcast co-founder Jay Rene speaks with Shaka Shakur about a range of topics, including the strategic significance of fostering, maintaining, and developing relationships between our people outside and our people behind bars. Among other topics, he addresses organizing internal study groups focusing on the law and how, together with progressive organizations and individuals on the outside, they are forming coalitions to free political prisoners.
They are building national networks and coalitions to raise the level of struggle and even gained their first comrade in a women’s prison who is exposing the terrors taking place in her place of capture.
The Indiana Chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild worked with IDOC Watch to establish the Prison Legal Support Network and the Committee for Freedom and the Rights Defense Committee.
