This week we hear from loved ones, family and friends; Nube reads her letter to BOP director Michael Carvajal; we hear from Thelma and Anthony about their loved one Joseph; and Casper, a prisoner in Colorado on the death of his friend.

Nube speaks with Alesha Monteiro, wife of Anthony caged in a California prison, mother and activist; Nube will also share her personal take on the denial by the BOP and GEO Group for home confinement with her partner in love, Malik Washington

Donald "C-Note" Hooker on the Ratcliff Awards by California Prison Focus

Nube speaks with imprisoned co-author of "The Solution: Medical Health Assistants;" We hear from family member of loved one inside KVSP; Mwalimu from Corcoran on Covid as a weapon; Easley on Covid response inside Toledo Correctional Facility in Ohio

Nube spends the hour with imprisoned activist, organizer and visionary, Joka Heshima Jinsai. Also, we hear this week's Prison Focus Mailbox

Covid report from California State Prison - Los Angeles County (CSP-LAC) September 17, 2020

Read by California Prison Focus volunteer, Max Friedman

Produced by Prison Focus Editor, Kim Pollak.

To learn more about the issues, to support CPF or to learn how you can get involved, visit www.prisons.org.

You can listen to the complete song, Abolish it, and more from Min King X aka Pyeface on itunes.

We hear from Ifoma Modibo Kambon, the current focus of the Liberate Our Caged Elders social media campaign; Nube reads an excerpt about Strategic Release from an article by Joka Heshima Jinsai

Nube and Malik speak with Kwame Teague, imprisoned best-selling author of the street classic Dutch Trilogy and Humanist; also Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia of POOR Magazine; Mwalimu Shakur on prisoner organizing around Covid-19 in San Quentin and Corcoran.

Nube speaks with Lisa Strawn, free after 25 years, and dynamic; also Jay Rene of Hip Hop Humanism.

October 22, 2020 Nube and Malik speak with Tasha Williams about the ongoing retaliation against her husband Talib, and we launch the phone zap to support against it; Nube speaks with Makini Iyapo about the decades-long struggle to release the elders, and shares her thoughts on the LCV social media campaign to Liberate Our Caged Elders, of which her husband is the first focus.