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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.
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).
Shut It Down! and South Africa: The Homeland
Call Number: V 609Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Shut It Down! - 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.
South Africa: The Homeland - A discussion between a South African lawyer and an exiled South African. Topics include apartheid, media representation of South Africa, and child torture.
Women in the US Prison System
Call Number: CD 800Format: CDProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A news segment, then a discussion of the treatment of women in US prisons. Covered in depth are the women in FCI Dublin and Alejandrina Torres in the Lexington Control Unit - a facility which used sensory deprivation and other experimental methods of psychological torture on prisoners.
RAW FOOTAGE: Inside Lexington Control Womens Unit
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 745Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, Alejandrina Torres, Sylvia Brown and Debra Brown, all while held in permanent isolation inside federal prison in Lexington, Kansas. Rosenberg, Baraldini and Torres were political prisoners recently transferred from general population to the "high security" isolation units. The women discuss violations of their human rights and their placement in isolation solely for their resistance to denounce their political beliefs. They believe the units are experiments being conducted by the US Bureau of Prisons to conduct torture methods in order to destroy political prisoners. Silvia Brown had escaped prison five times and Debra Brown was convicted of murder charges.
