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Tiyo Attallah Salah-El

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El served a life sentence, primarily in the State Correctional Institute at Dallas in Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons, the author of an autobiography, and a teacher of law and GED classes in prison. He died in prison in 2018. His papers are archived at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Navigates the Racialized Politics of Prison

"The only darkness comes from the majority of Black and Latino prisoners."
November 6, 2020  By Tiyo Attallah Salah-El
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