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“Lockdown in California Prisons”
Date: 12/29/1993Call Number: PM 232Format: CassetteProducers: KPFACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
KPFA broadcast of the overcrowding of prisons and the violent tactics employed by prison guards. Old interviews from George Jackson and James "Doc" Holiday discuss the brutal conditions of inmate abuse and the inattention it receives from the media. They discuss the San Quentin strike and outline their demands of: adequate health care, the necessity for a congressional investigation into the prison administration, federal control, and negotiations with the media to provoke dialogue among the general public. The subsequent lockdown is discussed and by San Quentin Six inmate Hugo Pinell. Pinell, along with other inmates, recount the torture of being tear-gassed and beaten by brutal guards. Reporters describe action taken by Bay Area legal organizations challenging the lockdown and inhumane "quiet rooms" also known as "the hole". This report then describes the breaching of inmate rights such as attorney/client confidentiality, and rights to be interviewed. Background prison noise sometimes muffles the sound and makes it difficult to understand; other interviews relatively clear.
Voices On and Of Prisons in the U.S.
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: PM 341Format: Cass A & BProducers: Undercurrents Radio, WMUACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
This tape is a series of interviews with [scholarly] activists and former prisoners discussing prisons in the United States. Dr Steve Whitman, from the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown and a top epidemiologist in Chicago, gives an interview titled "Overview on Race, Imprisonment and Control Unit Prisons," which provides a statistical and factual background for the following speakers. Ward Churchill discusses the American Indian Movement and its relationship with the U.S. government, specifically in the late 1960s involving Pine Ridge. Safiya Bukhari-Alston, former member of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Party, discusses political prisoners in the United States and the reasons for black people organized against an oppressive system/country. Akil Al-Jundi, former Attica prisoner, relates the events and conditions leading up to the 1971 Attica Prison riots. He emphasizes the racialized nature of relationships, job opportunities and authority that continued the oppression of black people within the prison system.
Police Accountability
Date: 4/16/1993Call Number: PM 343Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: BrainstormCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features Babara Attard, then senior investigator with San Francisco's Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), Suzanne Pegas, co-founder of Berkeley's Copwatch, and Carmen Johnson, political activist and board member of the MLK Housing Cooperative in San Francisco. They discuss the question of "How to police the police", the source of racist police policies, and where accountability resides in the police structure. Jerome Skolnick, affiliate of UC Berkeley School of Law and author of "Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force" also joins the discussion. He discusses "siege mentality" of the police, the code of silence in police departments, and the need for cops to relate to their communities.
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