Willis: `Prisons foster Black genocide'

Willis: `Prisons foster Black genocide'

The United State's prison system is fostering Black genocide, Attorney Standish Willis charged as he called for the release of a number of mostly Black Panther political prisoners who've been incarcerated for decades.

"The U.S. denies having any political prisoners, but, we've documented that there are about 100 of them, half of whom are Black," Willis told the Chicago Defender and later to WVON's Cliff Kelley.

Willis is holding a 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. African American Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Aaron Patterson townhall meeting tonight at the Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Van Buren where he'll be joined by Ahmad Abdur …