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.
Kurshan, N. (2012). OUT OF CONTROL: A Chronological Narrative of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown's 15 Year Struggle (manuscript ed., p. 1).
Documents
Walkin' Steel
Includes: ADX Florence, the 4th Year; Prisoners chained during childbirth; Youth crime; Why prisons don't prevent crime; Prisoners soaked by phone companies; Art & revolution; Billy Hands Robinson remembered; Mary L. Johnson continues struggling; The prison-industrial complex
Walkin' Steel
Articles include: The Continuing Saga of Shame, Political Prisoners Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Attica, Political Prisoners speak out on Marion conditions, Women in Prison, NCSDCUP Meeting, Salute to the Rev. Michael Yasutake
Walkin Steel
Articles include: U.S. Incarceration, The Crime and Imprisonment Quiz, Florence Opens, Juvenile Justice in Illinois, Emergency Response, National Network, Continuing Crime of Black Imprisonment, Pelican Bay Suit Decision, California Prison Shootings, Savage Inequalities Book Review, Black Health in the US, Mumia Abu Jamal.
Walkin' Steel: The Nature of Imprisonment in the US in Black and White
A Newsletter Devoted to the Abolition of Control Unit Prisons. Articles include: The Nature of Imprisonment in the US: In Black and White, Crime and Incarceration: Is there a link?, The Crime of Black Imprisonment, Marion – The Model for Control Units, The Proposed Prison in Florence, Colorado: A “New Improved” Marion, Why Control Units Exist: To Suppress Prisoner Dissent, New Control Unit Prison Planned for Illinois, Westville’s Maximum Control Complex: Indiana’s Marion, The War on Drugs.
Walkin' Steel
CEML Newsletter. Includes: 12 Month Campaign; Prisoners Resist Westville; Florence Update; May 2nd Illinois Prison Tour; May 2nd National Reports; International Interest;
Walkin' Steel
CEML newsletter. Includes: The Call for Joint Actions; The New Warden At Marion; Water Update; What is A Control unit Prison?; May Actions Against control Units; Horrors of Westville Control unit; Prisoners Demonstrate Solidarity; Pelican bay Prisoners Sue; People to Contact; Human Rights Watch Report; Get In Touch With CEML
Walkin' Steel
Newsletter devoted to the abolition of control unit prisons. Spring 1991 issue. Includes: From Attica to Marion to Florence; Sept. 21st Attica Commemoration; Attica=Resistance; Resources on Attica; New York Control Unit Prisons; control Unit Prisons Proliferate; Florence Update; People to Contact; Who Killed Mcduffie; Toxic Water at Marion - Changes?; Get In Touch with CEML
Walkin' Steel
Newsletter devoted to the abolition of control unit prisons. Spring 1991 issue. Includes: The Proposed Prison in Florence, Colorado: A "New and Improved" Marion; A Policy of Containment Control Unit Prisons Flourish; A Chronology of Contamination the Cotter Uranium Corporation; Who We Are. Also includes Supplement: Questions About the New Control Unit Prison Being Planned at Florence, Colorado.