Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
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The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) was a movement organization that opposed control unit prisons in particular, and racism and oppression in general. It was founded in 1985 and came to a close in 2000. Over the course of those 15 years, CEML led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and tried to build a national movement against “end-of-the-line” prisons. Along the way the Committee wrote thousands of pages of educational and agitational literature and pioneered new ways of analyzing and fighting against this national quagmire that morphed into the proliferation of the “prison industrial complex.”
Collection includes: Publications on their efforts to shut down the Marion Prison control unit, prevent the opening of USP Florence, CO; protests against toxic water at Crab Orchard Lake; efforts to improve conditions for inmates; efforts to stop the proliferation of Control Units in general; and further human rights and social justice in the US prison system.
Documents
![Suggested Detailed Schedule for May 4 Demo](images/thumbnails//27405.jpg)
![Emergency Response Page](images/thumbnails//27342.jpg)
![Strategy Session - September 21, 1992](images/thumbnails//27339.jpg)
![Petitions Submitted to the
Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
as of April 30,1990; Events in the Campaign to Change the Water Supply at USP Marlon](images/thumbnails//27282.jpg)
![Suggested Timetable for the Spring Offensive Around the Water at Marion](images/thumbnails//27276.jpg)
![Twelve Month Plan for Work Around Marion](images/thumbnails//27269.jpg)
![Logistical Plan for marion Demo, 4/29/1989](images/thumbnails//27241.jpg)
![Marion Prison Demonstration April 29: General Schedule](images/thumbnails//27240.jpg)
![Tribunal Schedule](images/thumbnails//27193.jpg)