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![Mission Cultural Center Reception- Lolita Lebron](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A reception with Puerto Rican freedom fighter Lolita Lebron. A special focus on prisoners of war and the original United States invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898. Lebron offers a solidarity statement among nations and peoples and calls on all to do their part in liberating subjected countries. A question and answer session with the audience continues on side 2 with discussion of clandestine armed forces, the necessity of unity, United States infiltration, invasion, subjugation and torture. Lebron discusses, in-depth, her experiences of being tortured by the medical officials in prison, by being purposely infected with disease. Lebron talks about how she was drugged, abused and denied water, resulting in a kidney infection among many other severe medical problems . Lebron speaks on the attack of US capital in 1954 and on US infiltration in Puerto Rican organizations and the disloyalty to the independista movement. Conditions in Vieques are mentioned by Lebron and she mentions Angel Rodriguez Cristobal who died in the struggle in Tallahassee, Florida
![George Jackson and Huey P. Newton interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continuation of George Jackson interview. He speaks about the difference between disciplined and authoritative behavior, saying that blacks find it hard to discipline themselves, but they still have to go forward in revolution and black liberation.
Huey P. Newton is interviewed at the Alameda county jail in Oakland, CA by Alex Hoffman and Charles Gary. He speaks about his sentencing, solitary confinement, and his new trial date. He also discusses being punished for being attacked in jail, even with white and black witnesses. Quotes Malcolm X.
![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.
![Report on the High Security Unit for Women Federal Correctional Institution Lexington, Kentucky](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: National Prison Project of the ACLU FoundationDate: 8/25/1987Volume Number: 25-AugFormat: ReportCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Report written from experiences of two National Prison Project Staff attorneys and a correctional psychologist and criminalogist who undertook a tour of Lexington Prison.
![The Fire Inside](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: California Coalition for Women PrisonersYear: 2013/2014Call Number: Volume Number: Issue 49, Fall/WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons - Women
Newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners: Solitary Torture in Women's Prisons, What's "Legal" About Solitary Confinement?, Stop CDCR Sterilizations!, Surviving Solitary, Solidarity With Striking Prisoners. End Long-Term Solitary!, Hunger Strike 2013 Update.
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