Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

Money for Human Needs - Not Prisons! Money for Human Needs - Not Prisons!
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWS; Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: FlyerCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Advertisement for Program and Discussion. Includes list of speakers.
A Proposal for How to End the Fiscal Crisis in the Schools A Proposal for How to End the Fiscal Crisis in the Schools
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: FlyerCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Flyer arguing for a halt to prison expansion proposed by Governor Jim Edgar's 1993 budget proposal.
Guards Lobby Legislators for 'Super-Max' Prison Guards Lobby Legislators for 'Super-Max' Prison
Author: Cerise Merrit WattPublisher: Decatur Herald and ReviewYear: 1993Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
5/18/1993 article
The Proliferation of Control Unit Prisons in the United States The Proliferation of Control Unit Prisons in the United States
Authors: Fay Dowker, Glenn GoodPublisher: Journal of Prisoners on PrisonsYear: 1993Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Virtual holdings only.
Breaking Men's Minds: Behavior Control and Human Experimentation at the Federal Prison In Marion, IL. Breaking Men's Minds: Behavior Control and Human Experimentation at the Federal Prison In Marion, IL.
Year: 1993Format: MonographCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Photocopy from: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Vol. 4 No. 2 (1993). Available online through Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: http://www.jpp.org/documents/forms/JPP4_2/Griffin.pdf
Super Max' prison has its foes Super Max' prison has its foes
Author: Mat KrashnowskiPublisher: The Courier LincolnYear: 1993Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of article from 5/10/1993 issue. Discusses controversy of building Supermax facility in Springfield, IL.
News Clippings regarding opening of Supermax in Illinoise News Clippings regarding opening of Supermax in Illinoise
Year: 1993Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of various.
Notes, Steve, 3/20/93 Notes, Steve, 3/20/93
Author: Steve WhitmanPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: Meeting Minutes and NotesCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Review of TF report.
Prison System has Failed US Prison System has Failed US
Author: Paul SimonPublisher: Chicago DefenderYear: 1993Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Clipping of opinion piece by senator. Date and publisher in handwritten notation.