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Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 184AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 185AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Same as PM 184
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
Event Commemorating el Grito de Lares (1868, Puerto Rican Independence struggle) with Humberto Pagan Hernandez and the National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Dedicated to Alejandrina Torres, William Guillermo Morales, and Filberto Ojeda Rios. Leslie Mulin of the Free PR Committee reads a statement of solidarity. Gloria Alonzo reads a statement from Adolfo Matos on the criminalizaiton of the Independence Movement through the judicial proceedings in Hartford, CT. Humberto Pagan talks about PR colonial history and resistance.
Buried Alive: Lexington Control Unit
Call Number: JG/ 061BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber interviews political prisoners/prisoners of war housed at the Lexington Control Unit in Kentucky. Puerto Rican Independista Alejandrina Torres and North American anti-imperialists Sylvia Baraldini and Susan Rosenberg, all inmates in Lexington, discuss the psychological torture they have endured in this unit including the absence of natural sunlight, denial of personal property, limited contact with family and the outside world, pointless and humiliating strip searches and other sexual torture, and medical neglect. Also discussed is the importance of public pressure in the form of national and international campaigns against these horrendous conditions.
Interview with Luis Nieves Falcon, Chair of Puerto Rican Committee on Human Rights
Spanish interview with Luis Nieves Falcon chronicles his work for the independence of Puerto Rico, as well as the securing of human rights for the Puerto Rican People. Discusses Puerto Rican politics on the island, colonial state, and his work fighting for the release of the numerous Puerto Rican political prisoners held in the United States. In particular, he describes his own visits with Alejandrina Torres, one of the Puerto Rican political prisoners.
Sparks Fly: Women political prisoners
Date: 11/1/1996Call Number: V 392Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Audio messages from women political prisoners on the occasion of the 7th annual Sparks Fly event organized to commemorate the day of international solidarity with women political prisoners.
Lexington Female High Security Unit
Call Number: CD 740Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
News clips and short interviews with women at Lexington Control Unit prison - Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, Alejandrina Torres.
Shut It Down!
Call Number: V 583Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the High Security Unit of the FCI in Lexington, KY. Has extensive interviews with women inmates, most notably Susan Rosenberg, discussing the psychological torture of the HSU. Footage of protests including a speech by Benjamin Chavis.
Shut It Down!
Call Number: V 584Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the High Security Unit of the FCI in Lexington, KY. Has extensive interviews with women inmates, most notably Susan Rosenberg, discussing the psychological torture of the HSU. Footage of protests including a speech by Benjamin Chavis.
High Security Unit
Date: 7/25/1988Call Number: V 585Format: VHSProducers: Nina RosenblumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with women inmates of the High Security Unit FCI Lexington. Prisoners explain that this prison targets political prisoners and the conditions amount to psychological torture.
Precurser to "Through the Wire" (1990).
