Partisan Defense Committee Letter

26 August 2025

Partisan Defense Committee P.O. Box 99, Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013

email: partisandefense@earthlink.net   www.partisandefense.org

Contact: Kevin Gilroy (212) 406-4252

The following letter was written by the Partisan Defense Committee.

26 August 2025

Bernadette Mason
Superintendent SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Road
Frackville, PA 17932

Laurel Harry
PA DOC Secretary
1920 Technology Parkway
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

Re: Mumia Abu-Jamal #AM8335

Madams,

The Partisan Defense Committee has learned that prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is suffering from dire vision loss due to medical neglect at your institutions. His eyesight is threatened by diagnostic diabetic retinopathy. This easily treatable condition has been allowed to deteriorate due lack of treatment. This criminal neglect must stop now.

We demand that he be released unconditionally so he can be given the needed medical treatment immediately. We and others have stood by Mumia during his unjust incarceration. We will not allow you to have this courageous journalist, artist and PHD candidate scholar blinded by deliberate inattention.

Sincerely,

Kevin Gilroy
For the Partisan Defense Committee