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Out of Control Lesbian Committee
Date: 8/28/1995Call Number: PM 317Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Rita Brown and Jane Segal discuss the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. They organize to support women political prisoners, publish a newsletter and are organizing a grassroots movement. The interview includes a discussion of their lives as political activists.
Women in Prison
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Rally
Rally held by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children consisting of speeches by prisoners and prison activists concerning women in prison.
Torture of Women Prisoners in California
Kathryn Campbell, Millard Murphy, and Maria Telesco, discuss the torture of women in California prisons, specifically in Chowchilla. They highlight the lack of medical care and attention and discuss how humiliation, degradation, and breaking of one's spirit are used to control prisoner. A culture of violence runs the California prison system.
Chowchilla - Women's Prison
Demonstrators demand proper medical care given to women prisoners in Valley State Prison. Chants challenge the government and politicians who neglect prisoners' rights. Ex-prisoners talk about being HIV positive in prison and speakers demand change.
Compassionate Release
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: PM 300Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
The case of Patricia Contreras, a Native American HIV/AIDS patient, seeking compassionate release from prison. Medical neglect in prisons is also discussed.
Medical Neglect, Control Units, Women in Prison
Date: 10/21/1996Call Number: PM 309Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource Center PARCProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Prisons - Women
News about the prison industrial complex and prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project, about compassionate release and women with AIDS. Also Catherine Campbell, an attorney with California Prison Focus, discusses the culture of violence at prisons, verbal provocations by the guards, mandates to confine members of rival gangs in same yard. Jean Stewart from the Disabled Prisoners' Justice Fund discusses the Armstrong case and the growing, neglected population of disabled prisoners and its causes. Karen Shain from Legal Services for Prisoners with Children speaks about women in prison and the class action law suits that are filed for work release, prenatal care, mother and infant programs, HIV. Herman Bell of the New York Three and former member of the Black Panther Party, discusses the need for support of political prisoners.
Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis
Date: 5/26/1998Call Number: PM 324Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally for women in prison in San Francisco's U.N. Plaza including: medical neglect of women in prison,discriminatory drug laws, Human Rights Watch's study that found that sexual exploitation and abuse of women by guards is an institutionalized and largely ignored practice, news of Mumia Abu Jamal, and women's rights coalitions about the need for more recovery centers and other treatment facilities.
Women in the US Prison System
A news segment, then a discussion of the treatment of women in US prisons. Covered in depth are the women in FCI Dublin and Alejandrina Torres in the Lexington Control Unit - a facility which used sensory deprivation and other experimental methods of psychological torture on prisoners.
Sparks Fly
Sparks Fly event to honor liberation of Assata Shakur, includes many former political prisoners. Includes speech by Donna Willmott, poem by Barbara Curzi, and co-MC Ida Robinson, in support of all political prisoners/prisoners of war.
