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![Charisse Shumate: Fighting for Our Lives](images/thumbnails//30466.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom Archives; California Coalition for Women PrisonersCollection: Gender and Sexuality
This 37-minute video was created in collaboration with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and focuses on the life of Charisse Shumate and women in California state prisons. It includes amazing prison interviews as well as materials from State Senate hearings on conditions for women in the California State Prison System and historical video footage of Charisse and her family.
![Free Herman Bell](images/thumbnails//30462.jpg)
More than 2.4 million human beings are imprisoned in the US.
This massive incarceration—overwhelmingly aimed at people of color and criminalizing youth—makes the US by far the greatest purveyor of punishment in the world.
Among these millions are a number of political prisoners, and among these courageous sisters and brothers is Herman Bell. Herman Bell has been a political prisoner in the US for nearly 40 years. When national liberation and revolution rocked the world in the 1960s and 70s, Herman was active in the social justice movements of those times, particularly the Black Liberation movement and the Black Panther Party.
![Introduction to Marion Prison](images/thumbnails//30461.jpg)
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
This video, created by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown in 1988, provides an introduction to Marion Prison, located in Marion, Illinois. Marion was the first control unit prison in the United States and this video outlines what makes Marion a control unit prison, what daily life looks like for men incarcerated in Marion and the complete power of Marion's staff.
![Judge Bruce Wright Speaks](images/thumbnails//30460.jpg)
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
In a speech given on November 4th 1989, Judge Bruce Wright talks about the legacy of racism in the courts. He specifically focuses on how the US Supreme Court has served as a historical ally of institutional racism in the United States.
![Model Control Unit Cell in Marion](images/thumbnails//30452.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) creates a full size model of a typical control unit cell in Marion. This video, created in 1987, provides powerful visual representation of the daily existence of men incarcerated in Marion.
![The History of Marion Prison](images/thumbnails//30451.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
This video, created by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown in 1988, serves to provide historical context around the opening of Marion Prison in 1963.
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