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![Changing Nature of the US Prison System](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 822Format: CDProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman and Jose Lopez talk about the US Prison system and it affects on communities of color. Speakers provide detailed statistics concerning mass incarceration and mass incarceration is placed in a historical context.
![Changing Nature of the US Prison System](images/thumbnails//7974.jpg)
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 432Format: CassetteProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman and Jose Lopez talk about the US Prison system and it affects on communities of color. Speakers provide detailed statistics concerning mass incarceration and mass incarceration is placed in a historical context.
![Changing Nature of the US Prison System](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 439Format: CassetteProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman talks about the US Prison system and it affects on communities of color. Speakers provide detailed statistics concerning mass incarceration and mass incarceration is placed in a historical context.
Speech by Jose Lopez cut off in this copy.
Transcript available for download.
![RAW FOOTAGE: Inside Lexington Control Womens Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
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