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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

Cold Storage: Super-Maximum Confinement in Indiana Cold Storage: Super-Maximum Confinement in Indiana
Publisher: Human Rights Watch.Year: 1997Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Human Rights Watch report on Human Rights Violations. Includes: Introduction; Summary and Recommendations; The Development of Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Indiana; The Physical Environment; The Inmate Population; A Day in the Life; Security, Force, Harassment, and Abuse; Psychological Impact of Conditions; Release from the MCF and the SHU.
Reprot on the Emergency Response Activated Around Marion by the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons Reprot on the Emergency Response Activated Around Marion by the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
Author: Nancy KurshanPublisher: National Campaign to Stop Control Unit PrisonsYear: 1997Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Report fcor CEML and National on Emergency Response Network Regarding Hunger Strike at Wabash Valley Prison, Indiana Report fcor CEML and National on Emergency Response Network Regarding Hunger Strike at Wabash Valley Prison, Indiana
Author: Charled CarneyPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1997Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Cover Letter and Report for May 4, 1996 Demonstration Cover Letter and Report for May 4, 1996 Demonstration
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1996Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Includes reproduction of media clippings.
Super Max Appropriation Super Max Appropriation
Year: 1993Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of p. 471 of appropriated funds. Includes handwritten note highlighting budget for construction of a "close supervision super maximum security prison"
Campaign to Stop the Illinois Supermax Prison: A Response to Governor Edgar's Illinois Task Force on Crime and Corrections Campaign to Stop the Illinois Supermax Prison: A Response to Governor Edgar's Illinois Task Force on Crime and Corrections
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1993Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction. Originally published September, 1993.
Report on Visit to the Marion Federal Penitentiary Report on Visit to the Marion Federal Penitentiary
Publisher: Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of JusticeYear: 1990Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
6/19/1990 The Mission of the Marion Penitentiary; The Marion "Lock Down" Policy; Assessment of "Lock Down" Policy; Concerns Expressed Marion Prison Inmates; Special High-Profile Inmates at Marion; The Marion Water Supply; Conclusion.
Marion Prison: Progressive Correction or Legalized Torutre? Marion Prison: Progressive Correction or Legalized Torutre?
Author: L.C. DorseyPublisher: National Interreligious Task Force on Criminal JusticeYear: 1990Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of report adopted 4/27/1990. Includes 12/28/1990 response by J. Michael Quinlan, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
US EPA Proposes Cleanup Action US EPA Proposes Cleanup Action
Publisher: United State Environmental Protection AgencyYear: 1989Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Reproduction of August 1989 proposal to correct contamination problems at the Crab Orchard National wildlife Refuge.
Marion Report Marion Report
Author: Nancy KurshanPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1988Format: ReportCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Report to Prairie Fire Organization Committee regarding Marion Work.