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![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? CEML #3](images/thumbnails//5809.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 345AFormat: Cass AProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a continuation of PM 336.
Transcript available for download.
![Voices on and of Prisons](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 2/1/1996Call Number: PM 417AFormat: Cass AProducers: WMVA AmherstProgram: UndercurrentsCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman on: The basics of imprisonment rates, racial hysteria and its beginnings, what kind of people are in control units and how control units are used against political prisoners, as well as the Amnesty International investigation into control units violations of human rights.
![NPR Report on Marion Lockdown](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1986Call Number: PM 435AFormat: Cass AProducers: National Public RadioCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Jacki Lydon reports on the 3rd year of the Marion lockdown. Describes conditions, who is imprisoned and why, and allegations of ill treatment and Human Rights violations. Includes interviews with administration and inmates.
Transcript is available for download: http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.inside.marion.008.pdf