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
![A Proposal for How to End the Fiscal Crisis in the Schools](images/thumbnails//27351.jpg)
![Flyer Advertising No Supermax Prison T-Shirts](images/thumbnails//27340.jpg)
![What if You Live in a State That Was So IL. That Headlines Like These Appeared?](images/thumbnails//27341.jpg)
![Rally and Demonstrate Against Torture Shut Down MCC Westville No Control Units](images/thumbnails//27335.jpg)
![Protest the Proliferation of Control Unit Prisons! Shut Them All Down! Join the Bus & Car Caravan to the gates of Three Prisons](images/thumbnails//27333.jpg)
![Prisons are About Racism](images/thumbnails//27330.jpg)
![Allegation of ill-treatment in Marion Prison, Illinois, USA](images/thumbnails//27317.jpg)
![Fact Sheet on the Toxic Water at Marion Prison](images/thumbnails//27306.jpg)
![A Call for Action](images/thumbnails//27302.jpg)
![Stop the Brutality at Marion Prison! No More Contaminated Water! End the Lockdown!](images/thumbnails//27297.jpg)