Don Trueten :antifa:<p>Addressing the Issue of Political Prisoners in the United States: Mumia Abu-Jamal and Ruchell Magee</p><p>Contrary to official pronouncements, there is strong evidence that there are political prisoners in the United States even under a conservative definition of the term. Under that definition, political prisoners are activists who were either unjustly accused or whose participation in the crimes they were charged with is at least doubtful, as well as those whose punishment was excessively harsh for politcal reasons and who have been repeatedly denied release on parole for the very same reasons.<br />There is a whole number of such prisoners in the United States of which the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Peltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peltier</span></a> (incarcerated since February 6, 1976) is just one prominent example. Other examples include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Veronza <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Bowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bowers</span></a>, Ruchell <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Magee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Magee</span></a>, and Edward <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Poindexter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Poindexter</span></a>, all of whom have also been incarcerated for more than 40 years.<br />In this <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/memorandum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memorandum</span></a>, we will concentrate on two of those prisoners, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Ruchell Magee, because Abu-Jamal had originally received the harshest sentence of all, the death penalty, and because his case at present is back in court again – and because Magee is the longest serving political prisoner in the history of the United States and possibly the world, having been convicted for a crime that occurred in August 1970 when he had already been unjustly behind bars since 1963. </p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/keypass/RGRDL3NyYjV2RktvYlpsQUxYMW03a09NN1hKU05sMVJCNVpaNGhXZFZ4TT0tLUlOdkxFdlpWSTZVUkptMGxncm5zQUE9PQ==--32387f0f567153bcadcf2539322474c365a87138/t/cYWMA-Q9wbBeB-gg1Qz/resource/work/98803371/Addressing_the_Issue_of_Political_Prisoners_in_the_United_States?auto=download&amp;email_work_card=download-paper" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academia.edu/keypass/RGRDL3NyY</span><span class="invisible">jV2RktvYlpsQUxYMW03a09NN1hKU05sMVJCNVpaNGhXZFZ4TT0tLUlOdkxFdlpWSTZVUkptMGxncm5zQUE9PQ==--32387f0f567153bcadcf2539322474c365a87138/t/cYWMA-Q9wbBeB-gg1Qz/resource/work/98803371/Addressing_the_Issue_of_Political_Prisoners_in_the_United_States?auto=download&amp;email_work_card=download-paper</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/RuchellMagee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RuchellMagee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/MumiaAbuJamal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MumiaAbuJamal</span></a></p>