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![Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 184AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
![Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 185AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Same as PM 184
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
![Report on the High Security Unit for Women Federal Correctional Institution Lexington, Kentucky](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: National Prison Project of the ACLU FoundationDate: 8/25/1987Volume Number: 25-AugFormat: ReportCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Report written from experiences of two National Prison Project Staff attorneys and a correctional psychologist and criminalogist who undertook a tour of Lexington Prison.
![People's tribunal to expose the Crimes of the Marion & Lexington Control Units](images/thumbnails//29601.jpg)
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown; Committee to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit; National committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1987Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Flyer for 10/24/1987 tribunal.
![Letter/Phone Campaign to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Advertisement for 11/23/1987 phone/letter campaign to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
![Greetings from Alejandrina Torres, Susan Rosenberg, and Silvia Baraldini](images/thumbnails//29590.jpg)
Date: 10/1987Volume Number: OctoberFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Statements of solidarity, October 1987
![Female High Security Unit](images/thumbnails//29588.jpg)
Publisher: Daedalus Productions, Inc..Year: 1987Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction. Media mateirals attached.
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