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Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 336Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mind Control or Social Control?
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur.
Transcript available for download.
Mass Incarceration: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mass incarceration and how money is being taken from education and put into expanding prisons. Also how prisons are being privatized and people are being exploited for labor.
Voices on and of Prisons
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.
CEML Ex-Prisoner Panel and Discussion
Date: 3/16/1990Call Number: PM 424Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Former political prisoners talking about their struggles, cases and the cruel policies and procedures of control unit prisons.
Workshop #3 - Part 1
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: PM 425Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
Workshop #3 - Part 2
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: PM 427Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
One of the first strategy sessions to organize resistance to the opening of USP Florence CO and to shut down all control units. Facilitated by Steve Whitman.
Marion Evening Program - Part 1
Date: 10/1/1990Call Number: PM 426AFormat: Cass AProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Program includes speakers from American Indian Movement, and Safiya Bukhari-Alston, former member of the Black Liberation Movement speaking out against Marion Control Unit. Facilitated by Nancy Kurshan.
NPR Report on Lexington Control Unit
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.
Interview with Sekou Odinga
Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Black Liberation Army freedom fighter Sekou Odinga speaks on the politics behind his imprisonment at the Marion Lockdown.