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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
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Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Judge bars US from Isolating Prisoners for Political Beliefs Judge bars US from Isolating Prisoners for Political Beliefs
Publisher: New York TimesYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Reproduction of 7/17/1988 article covering the order by Federal District judge Barrington-Parker to transfer Susan Rosenberg and Silvia Baraldini to "regular cells"
Inhumane' Prison Could be Model for Ionia, Activist warns Inhumane' Prison Could be Model for Ionia, Activist warns
Author: Marcelle WilliamsPublisher: Ann Arbor NewsYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 5/30/1988 article on statement by Nancy Kurshan regarding the Marion Lockdown as a model for other institutions.
State Dept. Weaves tangled Web on Cuban Jails State Dept. Weaves tangled Web on Cuban Jails
Authors: Adrian DeWind, Aryeh NeierPublisher: New York TimesYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 7/26/1988 response to "Cuba Has to Do More Than Fix Up Its Prisons" (Richard Schifter) by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Americas Watch Committee.
Protestors Confront Federal Prison Chief Protestors Confront Federal Prison Chief
Publisher: Chicago TribuneYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Article on the 11/12/1988 Quinlin protest CEML at the 40th annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology.
Playing with Prisoners' Minds Playing with Prisoners' Minds
Author: Dave DellingerPublisher: FellowshipDate: 3/1988Volume Number: MarchFormat: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of article on control units at Marion, IL and Lexington, KY.
Cuba Has to Do More Than Fix Up Its Prisons Cuba Has to Do More Than Fix Up Its Prisons
Author: Richard SchifterPublisher: New York TimesYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 7/11/1988 opinion piece by the Secy. Of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs on the Cuban prison system.
Racism in Prison System is Topic of Lawyers Guild Meet Racism in Prison System is Topic of Lawyers Guild Meet
Publisher: People's Daily WordYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 7/23/1988 article on the Lawyers Guild luncheon discussion of the disproportionate numbers of African Americans in the US prison system
America bars Cuban Prison Experts America bars Cuban Prison Experts
Authors: Adrian DeWind, Julia SweigPublisher: The Plain DealerYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 6/25/1988 article on US State Department's denial of visas to a delegation of Cubans requesting visits in American prisons.
The Marion Penitentiary: It Should by Opened Up, Not Locked Down The Marion Penitentiary: It Should by Opened Up, Not Locked Down
Author: Steve WhitmanPublisher: Southern IllinoisianYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 8/27/1988 opinion piece on the Bureau of Prison's denial of third party inspections inside USP Marion.
Why Not Glasnost? Why Not Glasnost?
Author: Tom WickerPublisher: New York TimesYear: 1988Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of 6/21/1988 article on Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead's denial of four Cuban penal experts visas to visit a number of prisons in the United States.