The Prison Radio Project is a San Francisco

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

-based radio and activist project that produces the commentaries of several prisoners considered to be political prisoner

Political prisoner

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’....

s, most notably Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate", and his sentence is one of the most debated today...

. Multiple radio stations across the United States broadcast these commentaries. The project's political aims include analyzing the prison-industrial complex

Prison-industrial complex

"Prison–industrial complex" is a term used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. The term is analogous to the military–industrial complex that...

 and attempting to present a more humanistic view of prisoners to the public.

Alongside the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, the Prison Radio Project also sponsored a birthday celebration rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal. http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/mumias-birthday-2009/