Former # ##mate ##yah Abu - ah has been hospitalized at Schuykill Medical Center in 2011 . The year - old is in the critical care unit of the facility according to lawyers at the Pittsburgh - based Abolitionist Law Center . Mumia is serving a life sentence after years of appeals granting him a reprieve from his death sentence in 2012 .
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has been hospitalized at Schuykill Medical Center in Pennsylvania . The 60-year-old is in the critical care unit of the facility according to lawyers at the Pittsburgh-based Abolitionist Law Center . Mumia is serving a life sentence after years of appeals won him a reprieve from his death sentence in 2012 .