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![Jalil Muntaqim interview (2 of 4)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 079Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Continues about the tampering and destruction of evidence in his case. Once you’re convicted the burden is to prove yourself innocent. Discusses cases of Dhoruba and Geronimo, who spent almost 50 years together in prison after proving that the state had set them up. Calls the US a plutocracy, where the rich rule and control the government, operating under a hypocritical veneer of democracy. Hegemonic powers of the media, describes it as the wizard in the background. We need to break the illusion that the system works for the benefit of the people. All he sees in prison are black and brown faces because of the unequal distribution of wealth and poverty being an impetus towards “crime”, and institutional racism has created a mechanism for people of color to go to prison. Talks about bodies becoming commodities, his prison number is like his bar code, economics analysis of PIC. Discusses tax breaks for rural counties who can include prisoners in their population even though majority of prisoners come from NYC. Control units/SHU - for rebellious prisoners and mentally ill inmates who can’t be controlled among rest of general population. Discusses his own most recent experience in the “box”, where the state fabricated evidence that he was organizing a statewide prison strike. Talks about SHU, feed you through a slot in cell, 1 hour of recreation time, everything even food is a privilege, no phone use, visitation once a week but through glass. Talks about the extended effects of isolation and sensory deprivation, claustrophobia, loneliness, anxiety and panic disorders. There is no rehab/education/employment/therapeutic/skill s offered to prisoners, thus they leave embittered and destructive. Talks about manifest destiny and how it was turned into a country. Ideas are power if you know how to take control. Starts to talk about returning to San Quentin adjustment center post-sentencing, housed with San Quentin six. Talking about freeing political prisoners with Ruchell Magee, who just received a letter from Yuri Kochiyama about starting a movement around amnesty.
![Interview with Jan Susler](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 141Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In English.
Jan Susler, one of the lawers for the Puerto Rican Political prisoners talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, the struggle for independence, her political history, the campaign to shut down the Lexington Control Unit and fear (min 25), how Luis Rosa and the other prisoners changed her (min 47), visibility (min 1), North Americans supporting Puerto Rico’s liberation struggle, etc. Continued on V 142.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited, and subtitled interviews of her and some of the former prisoners.
![Interview with Jan Susler](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 142Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
(Continued from V 141.) Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In English.
Jan Susler, one of the lawers for the Puerto Rican Political prisoners talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, connections between post Sept. 11 repression and that faced by Puerto Ricans, crisis, visibility, etc.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited, and subtitled interviews of her and some of the former prisoners.
![Luis Talamantez: Pelican Bay State Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/18/1993Call Number: CV 016Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Luis Talamantez, a prison rights activist working against prison injustices. Throughout the interview Talamantez describes the torture and violence inflicted upon Black and Latino Pelican Bay prisoners. He highlights the lack of prisoners' rights and the brutality of prison guards. By participating in the Pelican Bay Information Project Talamantez hopes to put an end to these atrocities.
![Torture of Women Prisoners in California](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Kathryn Campbell, Millard Murphy, and Maria Telesco, discuss the torture of women in California prisons, specifically in Chowchilla. They highlight the lack of medical care and attention and discuss how humiliation, degradation, and breaking of one's spirit are used to control prisoner. A culture of violence runs the California prison system.
![USP Florence-Pelican Bay SHU](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 427Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Story on CNN in the 1990s. ADX Florence has been called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies” and CNN repeats the official government position that ADX Florence - the worst control unit prison - is a "place for prisoners who have committed crimes against other prisoners." One of the interviewee’s is political prisoner Oscar López-Rivera.
Special on Pelican Bay by 60 Minutes. Interviews include several prisoners and prison guards about their experiences in Pelican Bay. It also recounts how prisoners sued the state of California for human rights violations and torture.
![Pelican Bay State Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: V 573Format: VHSProducers: Lowell BergmanProgram: 60 Minutes - CBSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the inner-workings and procedures of Pelican Bay State Prison, specifically the Security Housing Unit (SHU). Footage of the SHU. Interviews with inmates, most notably Vaughn Dorch, Pelican Bay State Prison guards, and expert doctors and witnesses in the Madrid v. Gomez case - prisoner instigated human rights challenge to isolation and conditions.
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