Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal Abruptly Moved from Prison to ICU

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Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has been taken to the intensive care unit of Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pa., after he was removed from prison for a medical emergency without any notification to his family, friends, or lawyers. Prison officials told his supporters he is in diabetic shock.

"Democracy Now!" gets an update from Abu-Jamal's longtime friend, Johanna Fernández, who first discovered he was in the hospital on Monday morning when she went to visit him in prison. Fernández is a history professor at Baruch College-CUNY and one of the coordinators of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home.