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Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 336Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mind Control or Social Control?
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur.
Transcript available for download.
Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? CEML #3
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 345AFormat: Cass AProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a continuation of PM 336.
Transcript available for download.
Control Unit Prisons
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: CD 696Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
CBS News Report about control units, Demonstration protesting control unit, Chicago event with Judge Bruce Wright and Jose Lopez about campaign to shut down control units.
Shut Down the Control Units
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 375Format: VHSProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
US policies at Marion violate the United Nation's Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners that were established for countries like Chile and South Africa. The control units at Marion often are used to silence political prisoners and those demanding prisoners rights.
Shut Down the Control Units
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CD 697Format: DVDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
US policies at Marion violate the United Nation's Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners that were established for countries like Chile and South Africa. The control units at Marion often are used to silence political prisoners and those demanding prisoners rights.
CEML Program - Bob Robideau, Safiya Bukhari-Alston, Rafael Cancel Miranda Moderator Nancy Kurshan
Date: 11/17/1990Call Number: V 377Format: VHSProducers: Nancy KurshanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A program by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown about Control Unit Prisons. Harsh prison conditions (including super-max prison, Marion) are described by Bob Robideau of the American Indian Movement, Safiya Bukhari of the Jericho Amnesty Movement and Rafael Cancel Miranda a Puerto Rican Independentista.
Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 794Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur.
Transcript available for download.
Terre-Haute Channel 2 NewsCast Report on prison demonstrations May 4, 1996
Date: 5/4/1996Call Number: V 617Format: VHSProducers: WTWD Channel 2 Terre HauteCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Short news report about demonstrations at Indiana State Prison in Carlisle and the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute. The protesters were part of a national campaign against the death penalty, control units and the misuse of taxpayer resources. Interview with Sister Kathleen Desautels of 8th Day Center.
CEML Conference Workshop #1: Racism, Youth and Police Torture
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 618Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
CEML moderator Mariel Nanasi, presenters Jeffrey Haas and Zulma Ortiz discuss police brutality in Chicago, the complicity of city officials, the police code of silence and high ranking police commander John Burge. Also present is a comparison between prison policies and school policies and the public school system is analyzed as a training ground for police repression of 3rd world communities. Q and A follows presentations.
CEML Conference Workshop #2: The War on Drugs and the Attack on Third World Communities
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 619Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
CEML Moderator Nancy Kurshan, presenter Professor Robert Starks. Panelists explore the historical roots of the war on drugs in an international context. Funding, technology and policy have all been used by criminal justice system and the war on drugs to expand attacks on Third World communities in a variety of spaces. Q and A follows presentations.
