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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s health deteriorating -- please act now!

Medical Malfeasance and Deliberate Indifference at SCI-Mahanoy are Killing Mumia Abu-Jamal

We are concerned about Mumia's deteriorating health,as has been witnessed in recent weeks by his visiting doctor, clergy, counselors, teachers, family and friends.  Evidence of intensifying Hepatitis C symptoms and possible development of the diabetes that nearly killed him a year ago calls for immediate and appropriate treatment.  

We, therefore, urge you to DEMAND:

Immediate provision to Mumia of anti-viral treatment to cure his Hepatitis C condition that is, as his doctor testified in court, the persistent cause of worsening skin disease, almost certain liver damage, now extreme weight-gain and hunger, and other diabetic-like conditions. 

Immediate release of all recent blood test results to Mumia's attorneys.

Vigilant monitoring of Mumia for signs of diabetes,especially of his blood sugar level, since a diabetes attack nearly killed Mumia last spring of 2015.

PHONE, FAX, AND E-MAIL THESE DEMANDS TO: PA GOVERNOR, TOM WOLF   Phone: [phone]    Fax: [phone]   E-mail: [email protected]

PA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, SECRETARY, JOHN WETZEL   Phone: [phone],  717-787-2500 E-mail:  [email protected]

MAHANOY PRISON, SUPERINTENDENT, Theresa DelBalso Phone: [phone] (You have to be transferred to her secretary, and she refuses to give out the fax number or e-mail for the Superintendent.  Not surprising, given that this new superintendent has a very heavy military background)

AFTER YOU CALL, post the results here: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1266016626760643/1266556286706677/

Sponsored by:  International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, MOVE, Educators for Mumia, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC), Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, International Action Center  

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New York City: Urgent 911 Report to the Movement on Mumia

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 6 PM – 9 PM ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH 1157 LEXINGTON AVENUE (between 79th and 80th Streets)

Now that Mumia’s legal team has filed the demand for a very specific medical treatment plan, based on the tentative diagnosis of his medical condition that one of his doctors has made, we feel it is important that we share the legal strategy and the medical findings with the movement. There will also be a presentation of the outrageous and deadly medical picture in the prison system as a whole for all of our political prisoners as well as for the general prison population. We will discuss some beginning plans for the next political steps we must take to save Mumia’s life and to free him. And we look forward to hearing initiatives others might take as well in moving forward. Partial List of Speakers:

Pam Africa International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Bob Boyle Member of Mumia’s Legal Team

Suzanne Ross Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition

Others to be announced

Light refreshments will be available.

Sponsored by the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC) 212.330.8029

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Competent Medical Care, Not Transfer. Administer the Hepatitis C cure to Mumia & the 10,000 PA Prisoners with the disease, NOW!

from Johanna Fernandez for Pam Africa and the Movement to Free Mumia & the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home Tues, Sept 8th, 2015

AN URGENT MESSAGE: Competent Medical Care, Not Transfer Administer the Hepatitis C cure to Mumia & the 10,000 PA Prisoners with the disease, NOW! At the urging of Pam Africa, I visited Mumia yesterday, Sunday, September 6. Pam got word from inside that Mumia’s cell had been raided by prison authorities. As you know, after a series of hospitalizations in March and April 2015, Mumia has remained in the prison infirmary. During this time, most of his property has remained in his old cell. According to Mumia, on Friday, September 4, officers rushed him out of his regularly-scheduled medical bath to inform him that all the belongings in his cell had been packed up and placed in storage. The handling of prison property in the absence of a prisoner is a violation of prison procedures. After signing the forms required when prisoner property is placed in storage, Mumia asked if he was about to be moved to a different facility, since the boxing up of a prisoner’s property usually precedes a transfer. An officer assured him that he would not be transferred; but this all seemed really strange to Mumia. These developments follow the immediate aftermath of a medical lawsuit filed by Mumia charging the DOC with medical neglect. Coming at this moment, a prison transfer would not be in Mumia’s best interest as it would disrupt contact with his attorneys and isolate him from his family and supporters. In addition, a move would put Mumia’s at risk; it would further compromise his physical and mental health and interrupt his medical care. The only transfer acceptable would be safe transit to a professional facility that would guarantee the medical attention he needs for a cure of his “active” Hepatitis C condition, for which there is a cure. As you know, Mumia has been in an acute health crisis for over 9 months, since January 2015. In March 2015, prison infirmary physicians allowed Mumia to fall into diabetic shock and come close to death. Please urge the PA Department of Corrections (DOC) to act in Mumia’s best interests and refrain from transferring him. Please also urge the DOC to give Mumia, and the 10,000 PA Prisoners with Hepatitis C, the cure he needs. Recently, Mumia has lost approximately 25lbs in two months. Although his spirits are high and his cognitive abilities have improved, he still sleeps all day and is suffering extreme lethargy, a bi-product of untreated, “active” Hepatitis C, a liver disease. The skin around his face is clearer than before and although his leg wounds have closed, they have left crater-like scars, which can erupt at any moment. The skin throughout his body remains jet-black, raw, extremely wrinkled, and rough, like elephant hide. Nails on his hands and feet are falling off and the palms of his hands are blackened. These conditions are also symptoms of his untreated, “active” Hepatitis C. The denial of the Hepatitis C cure to Mumia –while his medical condition remains precarious and while his disfiguring skin condition continues to cause him unthinkable suffering –is cruel and unusual punishment, and torture through medical neglect.

Demand the Hepatitis C cure for Mumia and for the 10,000 PA Prisoners with the disease, NOW! John Wetzel, Secretary of Corrections, Pennsylvania Phone: [phone] John Kerestes, Superintendent, SCI-Mahanoy prison: Phone: [phone]

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Lynne Stewart is calling on you to join her in getting Mumia Abu Jamal life-saving medical treatment!

GIVE now: bit.ly/fight4mumia SHARE this post We stand beside Lynne to demand that Mumia's treatable Hepatitis C will not be his death sentence! We need your help. Will you stand up with Lynne, Mumia and Prison Radio today? #fight4mumia #freemumia #mumiamustlive

Via Prison Radio

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Untreated diabetes nearly killed Abu-Jamal in March, and the DOC is refusing to treat his active Hepatitis C.

From the Abolitionist Law Center:

August 3, 2015: Attorneys for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filed an amended lawsuit yesterday in the Middle District of Pennsylvania federal court to challenge prison medical staff’s denial of necessary medical treatment – denial that nearly killed Abu-Jamal earlier this year.

See Plaintiff’s Motion to Amend Complaint and the Amended Complaint.

On March 30, 2015, Abu-Jamal was rushed to the hospital after losing consciousness and going into diabetic shock. Although prison medical staff were aware that Abu-Jamal had a dangerously high blood glucose level of 419 on March 6, they failed to treat, monitor, or even inform Abu-Jamal of his condition. Glucose levels like those that Abu-Jamal had can result in diabetic shock, diabetic coma, and death.

Abu-Jamal’s diabetic shock came in the midst of an escalating year-long health crisis that began with a rash in August 2014. The skin condition grew in intensity over the course of the next several months, eventually covering most of his body with a painful, severe rash that is resistant to conventional treatments. The skin condition is abnormal in its duration and intensity, and has led to lesions, open wounds, and swelling.

The lawsuit filed yesterday seeks injunctive relief for prison medical staff’s failure to treat Abu-Jamal’s active Hepatitis C. Recent blood tests provided at the insistence of Abu-Jamal, his lawyers, and consulting doctors have confirmed that Abu-Jamal has active Hepatitis C, which has likely been the underlying cause of his health crisis. Despite the undeniable medical evidence that he is in need of treatment for his Hepatitis C, prison medical staff is refusing to provide any.

Advances in Hepatitis C treatment in recent years have revolutionized the way the disease is treated, with new direct-acting anti-viral medications that have had over 95% success rates in curing the illness in clinical trials. The medications, however, are extraordinarily expensive in the United States due to monopoly pricing practices by the pharmaceutical companies that have patented them.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has yet to promulgate a new protocol for treating Hepatitis C with the new medications, meaning that the estimated 10,000-plus people in DOC custody who have Hepatitis C are not receiving any treatment.

This issue is the subject of a class action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania federal court in June 2015.

Abu-Jamal is represented by Bret Grote of the Abolitionist Law Center and Robert J. Boyle of New York City.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal needs life saving treatment for Hepatitis C. And we need your help to get it. 

Dear Friends,

On Saturday August 1, prison medical staff told Mumia Abu-Jamal that he hasactive Hepatitis C.  But the prison is refusing to give Mumia any treatment.

Today, we are going back to court to demand justice for our brother.

And we need your help to do it.

Prison is Refusing Treatment for Hepatitis C!

We need to escalate the fight for Mumia's care.

Mumia was admitted to the hospital with lethal blood sugar levels and in renal failure in late March. At every step of the way, Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel and the prison Superintendent John Kerestes have blocked, denied, and delayed medically necessary tests and treatments. Mumia has been hospitalized twice.

The only reason that Mumia has been given any diagnostic care is because we --his lawyers, his doctors, and you-- have demanded it.

After relentless pressure by Mumia's legal and medical team, Mumia was finally given a blood test for Hepatitis C. On Saturday August 1, Mumia received information from the prison that his Hepatitis C has an active viral load.

Mumia's independent physicians believe the Hepatitis C could be the cause of Mumia's debilitating open wounds and severe skin rash. The prison has been aware that Mumia was Hepatitis C positive since 2012-- yet they refused to test and treat him for this chronic and potentially fatal condition.

Prison officials and the DOC are categorically denying Mumia medical treatment by refusing to conduct the necessary tests to treat Hepatitis C.

Today Mumia's attorneys Bret Grote of the Abolitionist Law Center and co-counsel Robert Boyle of New York brought this case of medical neglect to court.

Now, we're calling on you to join us to bring Mumia back to full health.

What We Need

We need to raise $42,000 quickly to get Mumia immediate treatment.

Right now, every dollar you give will make it possible to:

File the amended lawsuit 'Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes' to include medical neglect, and demand that the PA Department of Corrections is accountable to conducting diagnostic testing and perusing an effective treatment plan.

Get Mumia a full Hepatitis C work up and treatment. New Hep. C treatments have a 95% cure rate: one pill per day for 8-12 weeks.

Demand immediate access to Zinc supplements and topical medicationProtopic for pain relief and exposed wounds, as recommended by Mumia's consulting doctors. Zinc has been denied, and Protopic has been withdrawn for unstated reasons.

Secure Mumia's constitutional right to access to the courts and counsel, especially while hospitalized

Grant Mumia's consulting physicians access to conduct a thorough exam in a medical environment. While we have succeeded in opening phone communication between Mumia and his physician, it is now time for his physician to direct and advise treating doctors at both the prison Infirmary and outside hospitals, as well as being able to communicate with Mumia in person.

Fuel a public campaign to bring Mumia back to health. Activism and direct action will be key to getting Mumia and all Pennsylvania prisoners critical care for Hepatitis C. It is the only way to move forward on the path that leads to freedom.

Support the demand for Hepatitis C treatment for all Pennsylvania prisoners. See the class action lawsuit.

The Pennsylvania DOC's denial of care is a violation of Mumia's and all prisoners' human rights. That's why we're asking you to stand with Mumia today.

Please give $50, $100, $1,000 or even $25 today.

After You Donate, Take Action

Calling every day can turn the tide. After you give, please take five minutes to demand medical treatment for Mumia

John Wetzel, PA Secretary of Corrections [phone]

Governor Tom Wolf [phone]

John Kerestes, Superintendent SCI Mahanoy [phone] ext. 8102

Click here for more contact information and resources.

Stay updated on Mumia's health & treatment by visiting this campaign (bit.ly/fight4mumia), as well as Prison Radio's facebook and website

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