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![AIDS in Prison: A Double Sentence](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 061AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber speaks with inmates, activists, and prison officials about conditions in the AIDS Unit inside the California Correctional Facility in Vacaville, California. Attica Brother Akil Al-Jundi and others speak on AIDS prisoners' confrontations with racism, quarantine, lacking medical facilities and personnel, involuntary and suspect testing, and cruel prison administrations. Also included, are depictions of prisoner resistance to inhumane treatment and a call for action from the public outside the prison walls.
![Buried Alive: Lexington Control Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Compilation of Correspondances between Elsa Knight Thompson re: request for funds, etc.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: CompilationCollection: Mental Health
Letter regarding the "A Clockwork Orange? Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners" conference
![Letter to Mr. Pete Steffens](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Letter to Elsa Knight Thompson and Pete Steffens regarding their application for a pamphlet on psychiatric experimentation on prisoners
![Prison Psychiatry: The Clockwork Cure](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The NationYear: 1972Volume Number: Vol. 214-14 April 3Format: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Article about aversion therapy, routinely practiced in California's prison system. Article further investigates medical and mental health practices at Vacaville Prison.
![The Return of Lobotomy and Psychosurgery](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Congressional RecordYear: 1972Volume Number: Vol. 118-26 February 24Format: Government DocumentCollection: Mental Health
The Return of Lobotomy and Psychosurgery
![Mutilating' Surgery on The Brain](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: San Francisco ChronicleDate: 4/7/1972Volume Number: 7-AprFormat: ArticleCollection: Mental Health
Original Article
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Format: EphemeraCollection: Mental Health
Letter to Vitor Rabinowitz regarding funding towards Elsa Knight Thompson and Pete Steffens releasing a paphlets about psychosurgical experimentation on prisoners
![Gene Marine Support Letter](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Letter to Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation regarding Elsa Knight Thompson and Pete Steffens applicationg for a grant to publish the procedings from the "A Clockwork Orange? Psychiatric Experimentation on Prisoners" conference