In a letter to Susan Burnett, Mumia writes:
I've joined the brothers up here on the hunger strike. As of today (April 13, 1998) my mother's birthday, at the specific request of some of the young dudes up here - so please pass it on. At last count 17 guys are on.
The following is the reason why the hunger strike continues.
April 6, 1998
9:00 pm
LLJA! Ona Move
I want you to know that the Hunger Strike has been re-instated. According to my latest info, 14 guys are presently on, as of this morning.
The key issue, as I suggested to you in my earlier letter, is legal material; I just want to point out that the situation of the Department of Corrections vis-a-vis men on death row has changed dramatically in the last few years. Under relatively new statutory authority, the DOC now may sign a death warrant. Thus, no longer are they neutral state agents, they are active agents of death. In this context, the tampering, custody and control of a man's legal materials seems starkly and unquestionably malevolent.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
Send Protests to:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge
225 Main Capitol Bldg.
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Tel: 717-787-2500
Fax: 717-783-4429
Martin F. Horn, Secretary
Commissioner, PA. Dept. of Corrections
Department of Corrections
2520 Lisburn Road
P. O. Box 598
Camp Hill, PA 17001-0598
Tel: 717-975-4859
Fax: 717-787-1758
Benjamin Varner, Superintendent
SCI Greene
1030 East Roy Furman Hwy.
Waynesburg, PA 15370-8020
Phone: 412-852-2902
Fax: 412-852-2909
[updated April 22, 1998]
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