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![Medical neglect: genocide within the PIC, Critical Resistance- Beyond the PIC](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This is a 1998 taping of a workshop presented by PARC and moderated by Lauren Jones. Scott Kosa (sp?), a prison healthcare reform advocate and former prison social worker, explains causal factors in why corrective facilities hyave failed in response to HIV and healthcare and also addresses issues the PIC ignores. Pamela Africa, minister of defense of the MOVE organization, reflects on her and other MOVE members' experiences inside prison, medical neglect and deprivation. Judy Greenspan, director of PAssionate Release, uses the story of Ronnie Sappington to address the brutality of medical neglect.
![Prison Corruption](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/4/1996Call Number: PM 290Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Coverage of prison corruption, treatment of prisoners and an anti-police brutality rally.
![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.
![Interview with Ezra Davis](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ezra Davis speaks about his experiences as an inmate with HIV/AIDS and general conditions at CMF Vacaville for inmates with medical conditions.
![Chowchilla - Women's Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Demonstrators demand proper medical care given to women prisoners in Valley State Prison. Chants challenge the government and politicians who neglect prisoners' rights. Ex-prisoners talk about being HIV positive in prison and speakers demand change.
![Medical Neglect](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 302Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Medical Care In Prison
Prison Activist Radio discuss the battle for medical care and healthcare rights for prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project and member of California Coalition for Women Prisoners, speaks about the lack of women's healthcare in prisons, the serious medical conditions that men and women prisoners enter the system with, and the hostility of doctors, officials, and guards towards prisoners. She also discusses prisoner-activist Joanne Walker and the effective campaign for HIV/AIDS care and medical rights. Jean Stewart, from the Disabled Prisoner's Justice Fund and ADAPT discusses the abuses suffered by prisoners with disabilities. She also discusses health care issues, including the Armstrong and Shumate cases. Stewart states that the biggest problem with medical justice is the public's ignorance of people with disabilites.
![Compassionate Release](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: PM 300Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
The case of Patricia Contreras, a Native American HIV/AIDS patient, seeking compassionate release from prison. Medical neglect in prisons is also discussed.
![Patricia Contreras Rally](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
California rally in support of Patricia Contreras requesting she be granted a compassionate release from prison. She is a terminally ill prisoner with AIDS and wants nothing more than to die outside of prison. Demonstrators also challenge the poor medical care given to prisoners.
![Medical Neglect, Control Units, Women in Prison](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1996Call Number: PM 309Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource Center PARCProgram: Prison Activist RadioCollection: Prisons - Women
News about the prison industrial complex and prisoners. Judy Greenspan, director of HIV/AIDS in Prison Project, about compassionate release and women with AIDS. Also Catherine Campbell, an attorney with California Prison Focus, discusses the culture of violence at prisons, verbal provocations by the guards, mandates to confine members of rival gangs in same yard. Jean Stewart from the Disabled Prisoners' Justice Fund discusses the Armstrong case and the growing, neglected population of disabled prisoners and its causes. Karen Shain from Legal Services for Prisoners with Children speaks about women in prison and the class action law suits that are filed for work release, prenatal care, mother and infant programs, HIV. Herman Bell of the New York Three and former member of the Black Panther Party, discusses the need for support of political prisoners.
![Chain Gangs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: PM 330Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prison Labor
Prisoner Michael Lamar Powell speaks and reads excerpts of his writing about the reinstatement of chain gangs in Alabama in 1995.