convicted cop killer mumia abu jamal, 60, has been hospitalized, but his lawyer says prison officials won't tell him why attorney bret grote with the pittsburgh based abolitionist law center said monday that his client is in the critical care unit of schuylkill medical center in pottsville, pennsylvania grote says neither he nor abu jamal's brother, keith cook, have been allowed in to see him 'we're concerned, about as concerned as it gets, about mumia's health,' grote told the philadelphia inquirer hospitalized: convicted cop killer mumia abu jamal is in the critical care unit of a pennsylvania hospital but his lawyers say officials won't tell them why  a pennsylvania department of corrections official also declined to provide details a spokesman for pottsville's schuylkill medical center says he had no information about abu jamal 'we never discuss an inmate's medical condition,' deputy press secretary susan bensinger told the inquirer mumia's hospitalization was revealed monday when a group of his friends arrived to the state correctional institution at mahanoy for a visit and were informed by prison staff that he wasn't there while grote and others had permission with the prison to visit mumia, the hospital had not yet cleared them grote said he hoped the matter would be cleared up by tuesday abu jamal is a former black panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner treated: lawyers with pittsburgh based abolitionist law center say prison officials told them their client is being treated at pottsville's schuylkill medical center  his conviction was upheld through years of appeals, but he has gained international support for his claim that he's the victim of a racist justice system mumia's death sentence was overturned in 2012 abu jamal supporters include celebrities like whoopi goldberg, and many hail him as a revolutionary abu jamal has written several books, hosted his own radio show and even has a street named after him in france mumia abu jamal (left) is a former black panther serving life in prison for the 1981 murder of white philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner (right) his conviction was upheld through years of appeals, but his death sentence was converted to life in prison in 2012 
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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 