The Whimsy Farm Podcast Episode Twenty: Author Carol Menaker on the case of Mohammed Burton
I speak with author Carol Menaker and discuss her memoir "The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done, One Juror’s Reckoning with Racial Injustice." Her book explores the trial and unjust incarceration of Freddy Muhammed Burton, imprisoned for over fifty years now in Pennsylvania for crimes he did not commit.
Update: On January 8, Menaker reported that "Muhammed was transferred to Chester, PA from Somerset, PA, an event that has been underway for more than two years. He told Eleanor (Jonathan Gettleman’s mother) that he was so happy. That he felt like he’d gone from hell to heaven and that the people are very nice. Turns out the Chester facility is designated for all the “old heads” so many of the inmates there are known to him because they’ve all been moved around the system for years. Apparently he knows half the men who are there."
Carol Menaker’s website: www.carolmenaker.com
Abolitionist Law Center Website: https://abolitionistlawcenter.org/
Correspond with Mohammed Burton:
Smart Communication TADOC
SCI - Somerset, Fred Burton AF3896
PO Box 33028, St. Petersburg FL 33733
United States