Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
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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
![Prepared Remarks for April 20th, 1996 Midwest Regional Hearing: Control Units, Prisons & Political Prisoners](images/thumbnails//27404.jpg)
![Mass Incarceration and control Units: Crime Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//27395.jpg)
![Speech by Nancy Kurshan at Celebration of William Kunstler, Chicago Illinois, November 5, 1995](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
![The Honorable Robert W. Kastenmeier Statement on the Federal Penitentiary in Marion, Illinoise](images/thumbnails//27283.jpg)
![Bangs and Whispers](images/thumbnails//27255.jpg)
![Address to the Town of Marion, April 29,1989](images/thumbnails//27243.jpg)
![ABC News: 20/20: "America's Toughest Prison"; "Much Ado About Nothing?"; "From Paris to Peoria"](images/thumbnails//27204.jpg)
![USP-Marion, Part III](images/thumbnails//27197.jpg)
![Transcript of The People's Tribunal to Expose the Crimes of the Control Units](images/thumbnails//27194.jpg)
![Tribunal Statement: From Women PP's and POW in HSU](images/thumbnails//27195.jpg)