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‘Release Mumia NOW!’ was the cry in Philadelphia
By Joe Piette posted on February 17, 2021
Pam Africa (right), speaking at rally, Feb. 15.
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On less than 24 hours’ notice, more than 40 people came out on Feb. 15 to show their opposition to a Feb. 3 legal brief by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a so-called “progressive.” It denies Mumia Abu-Jamal the right to prove his innocence in court.
A member of the Black Panther Party as a teenager, and a justice-seeking journalist known as the “Voice of the Voiceless,” Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted of murder by the racist injustice system almost four decades ago. He was summarily condemned to death row.
Gov. Wolf proposes paying anyone wrongly convicted $50K for every year spent in prison
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
Larry Trent Roberts leaves Dauphin County Prison in 2019 after a jury finds him not guilty of a 2005 Harrisgurg homicide for which he d already served 13 years in prison.
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Tucked into Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2021-22 budget plan is a proposal for Pennsylvania to pay people who were wrongly convicted $50,000 for each year that they were held behind bars.
Under Wolf’s plan, the funds would go to exonerees who have had convictions overturned on the grounds that they were innocent of the crime accused. The new program could apply, for example, to inmates who have seen convictions overturned and subsequently had charges dropped, or those who were acquitted in a new trial.
Since the initiative began in Philadelphia, the local prison population has decreased by 43%. The city has closed its House of Corrections and avoided the construction of a new prison.
By 2022, the initiative aims to reduce the city s jail population by 58% from its 2015 level. With the new grant money, the city will target the following reform measures:
•Providing early bail review hearings to people held in jail on low amounts of bail
•Increasing early diversion opportunities through the Police-Assisted Diversion Program
•Improving connections to treatment and services for people on community supervision with a mental illness
•Increasing investments in community-driven reforms through a criminal justice microgrant fund.