All Things Censored is Mumia Abu-Jamal's major new release with 79 writings, many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen--the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cell. Abu-Jamal writes on a host of topics, including the ironies that abound within the U.S. prison system, the consequences of those ironies for us all, and his own case. Mumia's composure, humor, and connection to the living world around him represent an irrefutable victory over the "corrections" system that has for two decades sought to isolate and silence him. His conviction for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer has been contested on various constitutional, legal, and moral grounds. As of this writing, he lives and writes with an execution date hanging over his head, and is still banned from the airwaves and television (as all Pennsylvania prisoners now are). The title, All...
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