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![Shut It Down!](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 583Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the High Security Unit of the FCI in Lexington, KY. Has extensive interviews with women inmates, most notably Susan Rosenberg, discussing the psychological torture of the HSU. Footage of protests including a speech by Benjamin Chavis.
![Shut It Down!](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 584Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the High Security Unit of the FCI in Lexington, KY. Has extensive interviews with women inmates, most notably Susan Rosenberg, discussing the psychological torture of the HSU. Footage of protests including a speech by Benjamin Chavis.
![High Security Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/25/1988Call Number: V 585Format: VHSProducers: Nina RosenblumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with women inmates of the High Security Unit FCI Lexington. Prisoners explain that this prison targets political prisoners and the conditions amount to psychological torture.
Precurser to "Through the Wire" (1990).
![Born Underground](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 599Format: VHSProducers: Molly Sndyer-FinkCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About Ray Levasseur, political activist/revolutionary and member of the Ohio 7. Interviews with his ex-wife Patricia Gros, and daughter Carmyn. Discusses what it was like starting and maintaining a family while underground.
![Shut It Down! and South Africa: The Homeland](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 609Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinProgram: Let the People Speak!Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Shut It Down! - About the High Security Unit of the FCI in Lexington, KY. Has extensive interviews with women inmates, most notably Susan Rosenberg, discussing the psychological torture of the HSU. Footage of protests including a speech by Benjamin Chavis.
South Africa: The Homeland - A discussion between a South African lawyer and an exiled South African. Topics include apartheid, media representation of South Africa, and child torture.
![Lexington Protest](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 610Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Footage of demonstration outside the women's Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, KY. Posters with photographs of inmates and various statements and speeches. Interview with Attorney Melinda Power. The beginning of the film is B-Roll.
![Torture and Occupation Excerpts](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 473Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Out-takes from programs on Palestine and Israel, primarily on torture of Palestinian prisoners and on occupation. Includes women prisoners. Also an Israeli soldier telling about the blowing up of Palestinian towns and "collective punishment," including the town of Yalu.
![Lexington Prison Interviews 1987](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: CD 779Format: CDProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
![Interview with Susan Rosenberg](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 786Format: CDProducers: WBAICollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Susan Rosenberg speaks from the Metropolitan Corretional Center in New York City about political prisoners and prisons. She describes the conditions in the control unit in Lexington women’s prison and the government’s reasons for selecting the women sent to Lexington.
![The Case of Silvia Baraldini](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 4/16/1991Call Number: CD 787Format: CDProducers: Sally O'BrianProgram: Where We LiveCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Silvia Baraldini describes her harsh treatment and that of other U.S. political prisoners. Her attorney, Elizabeth Fink, comments on the lack of evidence presented at trial and the extreme sentencing and punishment of Baraldini at the Lexington Federal Prison. Italian member of Parliament Emma Bonino, and Italian journalist Patricia Lambroso comment on Italian parliamentary and public support for Baraldini.