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![Prison Focus](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2013Volume Number: No. 39 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- The Pathology of Patriarchy: A Search for Clues at the Scene of the Crime
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Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2013Volume Number: No. 40 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- Solitary Confinement is known Torture: Yet officials pretend not to know and play the debating game to curb protest and continue to practice is US prisons
![Let the Fire Burn](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2013Call Number: CD 865Format: DVDProducers: Jason OsderCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped two pounds of military explosives onto a city row house occupied by the radical group MOVE. The resulting fire was not fought for over an hour although firefighters were on the scene with water cannons in place. Five children and six adults were killed and sixty-one homes were destroyed by the six-alarm blaze, one of the largest in the city's history. This dramatic tragedy unfolds through an extraordinary visual record previously withheld from the public. It is a graphic illustration of how prejudice, intolerance and fear can lead to unthinkable acts of violence.
![House that Herman Built](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2013Call Number: CD 862Format: DVDProducers: Jackie SumellCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Herman's House is a portrait of a man who won't give up fighting for his freedom and, inevitably, a critique of a justice system that has confined him for decades in solitary--a condition that some decry as torture. The film is even more the story of an unlikely artistic collaboration that brought thousands of Americans face-to-face with the harsh reality of Wallace's confinement and went on to change profoundly the lives of both the Louisiana prisoner and the New York artist.
New Orleans native and former Black Panther activist Herman Wallace went to jail in 1967 at age 25 for a robbery he admits committing. In 1972, he was accused of the murder of a prison guard, a crime he vehemently denies, and placed in solitary confinement in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. Wallace was subsequently given a life sentence. Fellow Black Panther Albert Woodfox was also placed in solitary and then convicted of the same guard's murder. A third Panther activist, Robert King, was placed in solitary at that time though eventually convicted of a different murder. Together the three men became famous as the "Angola Three."
Except for a brief period, Wallace has remained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for 40 years, and he has never stopped protesting and appealing his murder conviction. Over the years, as doubts about the men's guilt accumulated--King was freed in 2001, and in February of this year a judge ordered the release of Woodfox--concern has also grown that Wallace and an estimated 80,000 other prisoners in the United States are being subjected to solitary confinement. In 2002, Wallace received a letter that asked an extraordinary question. Jackie Sumell, a young New York artist, wrote, "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?"
![Prison Action News](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Anarchist Black CrossYear: 2013Volume Number: Vol. 6-2 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Tables of Contents: New Prison Groups and Programs; Prison Group Updates; The Almighty Pen and Paper: Grievances and Legal Work; Direct Action/ Non-Compliance; Solidarity: Working Across the Bars; Commentary and Calls to Action
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Publisher: Anarchist Black CrossYear: 2013Volume Number: Vol. 6-1 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Table of Contents: New Prison Groups and Programs; Prison Group Updates; The Almighty Pen and Paper: Grievances and Legal Work; Direct Action/ Non-Compliance; Solidarity: Working Across the Bars; Commentary and Calls to Action
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Publisher: Black Left Unity NetworkYear: 2013Call Number: Volume Number: Issue 1, SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Stand Together For Justice: Forging Unity of the Black Left, Justice For Trayvon Martin, Stop The War on Black America!, Black Workers For Justice, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Manifesto of the Black Workers Congress, On Our Sister Assata, On Our Brother Trayvon
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