AMY GOODMAN: What is Leonard Peltier’s condition in the Florida prison? NICK TILSEN: Leonard is 80% blind in one eye. He has type 2 diabetes. He’s in a walker. He has an aortic aneurysm.
Former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who had been imprisoned for nearly 50 years, on Jan. 20.
For more, we go to Sumterville, Florida, where we’re joined by Nick Tilsen, founder and CEO of the NDN Collective. He just visited Leonard Peltier in prison after news of his release yesterday.
More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two ...
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...
Leonard Peltier responds with disbelief in learning he would finally be able to leave prison after nearly 50 years ...
Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s decision is the result of decades of grassroots ...
Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier ... a high-security prison in Florida. Outgoing Interior Secretary ...
Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was ...
The warning comes after the joyous twist of clemency for the Indigenous activist, as shown in a Sundance film premiering Monday.
President Biden's recent commutation of Leonard Peltier's double life sentence for ... the high security federal penitentiary in Colman, Florida. It remains to be seen whether his drive to seek ...
"It took nearly 50 years to acknowledge the injustice of Leonard Peltier ... love to go home," Peltier said by phone from the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Florida.