Joka Heshima Jinsai

Abolish Legal Slavery to Prevent Suicide Joka Heshima Jinsai

Political prisoner Abdul Olugbala Shakur consistently serves the New Afrikan community and has been at the forefront in combatting gang violence and other criminality in the Black community. His tireless commitment to improving the daily lives of those in society can be seen through the broad body of work he has developed and contributed to creating. Shakur has accomplished this while being incarcerated for close to 40 years, with almost 33 years in solitary confinement. In prison since 1993, Jinsai spent 18 years and 8 months in solitary confinement. He has been a tireless advocate for Black self-determination; revolutionary concepts of socialism; community development; prisoners' human rights; social equality; and abolition of indefinite solitary confinement, mass incarceration, and legal slavery in America. Jinsai is the founder of the "Amend the 13th: Abolish Legal Slavery in Amerika Movement." Jinsai is also chief consultant for the George Jackson University; he also co-founded the Insurrectionists Art Collective to help raise funds for good causes via art. He is a co-founder of the Free Speech Society, and the Concrete & Steel Center of Excellence. During the times of indefinite solitary confinement and the collective peaceful prisoner protests against this in California, Jinsai gave shape to the NCTT-Cor-SHU-collective with powerful essays and pilot programs created together with his brothers inside, published originally by the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper.