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 . According to a statement from his family, he was taken into custody on Friday after being charged with murder and other offenses related to an incident that occurred last month when police say they were called by someone
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 .