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![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 Lexington Control Unit](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1986Call Number: PM 430Format: CassetteProducers: National Public RadioCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Jacki Lyden reports on the lawsuit challenging the placement of Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres and Silvia Beraldini in the Lexington control unit, which resulted in Lexington's closure.
![Marion Appeal Press Conference](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 3/1/1988Call Number: PM 431Format: CassetteProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Press conference on the appeal of Bureau of Prisons decision to keep the Marion Lock down, they're treatment of prisoners in violation of Human Rights standards and the 8th Amendment, and the classification of prisoners or lack thereof. Speakers include Dr. Steve Whitman and Attorney Jan Susler.
![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
![Today's Legal Repression Session 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
![Today's Legal Repression Session 1](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 434Format: CassetteProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
![America's Toughest Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/18/1988Call Number: V 682Format: VHSProducers: Danny SchecterProgram: 20/20Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Tom Jerrell reports on the long term isolation of Marion Federal Penitentiary during the then 5 year lockdown that started in 1983 with the death of three prison guards. Includes interviews with political prisoner Timothy Blunk, Amnesty International representative David Matas and Warden Gary Henman.
![Jeff Haas and Zulma Oprtiz Speak at CEML Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1989Call Number: PM 441BFormat: Cass BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Jeff Haas and Zulma Ortiz discuss White supremacy and the US prison system, including the toxic water supply at Marion Federal Penitentiary during the 23 year lockdown and the Amnesty International report concerning inhumane treatment of prisoners.
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