Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
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
![Big house on the prarie: To break out of its economic trap, Florence broke into the nation's toughest jail](images/thumbnails//27312.jpg)
![Marion Warden tries to douse Water Concerns; Update on CEML Water Campaign](images/thumbnails//27300.jpg)
![Group Challenges Prison on "Toxic" Drinking Water Supply; Protest set Today at Prison; Protestors Express Concerns Over Water Supply at Federal Prison; Advertisement for 5/4/1990 and 5/5/1990 toxic water protests at Marion](images/thumbnails//27281.jpg)
![Dungeon Marion: Experimental Repression](images/thumbnails//27264.jpg)
![Toxins on Tap?](images/thumbnails//27260.jpg)
![Congress Gets a Close Look at Marion](images/thumbnails//27256.jpg)
![Infection in Prison Raises Concern](images/thumbnails//27253.jpg)
![Marion Penitentiary Targeted by Human Rights Protesters](images/thumbnails//27249.jpg)
![Chicago Group Protests Marion Prison](images/thumbnails//27248.jpg)