Mujahid Farid has been a prisoner in New York State for the past thirty-three years. He is serving a sentence of fifteen-years-to-life for a conviction of the attempted murder of a New York City policeman after being accused of trying to fire a pistol, which misfired, at the plainclothed officer. He has been denied parole nine times, every two years, since 1993, and maintains his innocence. He states that in New York parole denials are being widely applied to long-term prisoners and are part and parcel of the PIC movement and its supporters in the penal system. He is one of the founding members of the widely acclaimed PACE (Prisoner for AIDS Counselling & Education) program in the New York prison system. In 1990, he won the PEN American Center's first prize award in non-fiction for his account on the struggle for AIDS education in prison. Mujahid can be reached at either of the following addresses:
Mujahid Farid #79A0362 Franklin Correctional Facility 62 Bare Hill Road - P.O. Box 10 Malone, New York 12953 USA
Mujahid Farid 2917 Parkwood Avenue Richmond, VA 23221 USA
