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Through the Wire
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 325Format: VHSProducers: Nina RosenblumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A shocking and powerful documentary by Nina Rosenblum–narrated by Susan Sarandon and shot by Haskell Wexler- about the recent “experimental” torture and attempted brainwashing of three women prisoners in a federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky.
The End of the Nightstick
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 364Format: VHSProducers: Peter Kuttner, Cyndi Moran, Eric SchollCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
For 20 years in Chicago, the press and authorities turned deaf ears to allegations of brutal interrogations and torture by Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge.
Victims speak out and the film investigates charges of institutional racism, violence and cover-up. It also tells the story of a resistance movement, as local activist groups, including the Task Force to Confront Police Violence, refuse to let testimonies of police violence remain buried.
Unlock the Box
Date: 8/1/2008Call Number: CD 662Format: DVDProducers: MIMCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The struggle to put an end to long-term isolation in u.$. prisons that has been waged by prisoners and activists for decades. Starting from the premise that long-term isolation is a form of torture that serves no purpose except the state's oppressive aims at social control.
Voices and artwork of current and former prisoners who have done time in control units.
Control Unit Prisons
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: CD 696Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
CBS News Report about control units, Demonstration protesting control unit, Chicago event with Judge Bruce Wright and Jose Lopez about campaign to shut down control units.
Shut Down the Control Units
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 375Format: VHSProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
US policies at Marion violate the United Nation's Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners that were established for countries like Chile and South Africa. The control units at Marion often are used to silence political prisoners and those demanding prisoners rights.
Nadim Zaru - Mayor of Ramallah in Exile
Date: 10/29/1969Call Number: CE 167Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Describes how Israeli authorities jailed him for four days and forced him into exile in Jordan. Includes description of Ramallah during the 1967 Six-Day War (IDF looting businesses and hotels). Also Israeli demolition of Arab homes, torture in Israeli prisons in West Bank, and accounts of a visit from Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to Ramallah.
Israeli Occupation
Date: 6/8/1970Call Number: CE 175Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Israeli OccupationCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Accounts of atrocities committed against Arabs, Christians, and Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1948. Includes graphic descriptions of torture in Israeli prisons, mass arrests of Arab men, collective punishment of Arab villages, demolition of homes, curfews in occupied territories, IDF looting private homes and businesses, Israeli refusal to allow humanitarian aid into refugee camps and occupied zones, indiscriminate killings, bombings of villages.
Israeli Occupation
Date: 6/8/1970Call Number: CE 176Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Israeli OccupationCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Accounts of atrocities committed against Arabs, Christians, and Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1948. Includes graphic descriptions of torture in Israeli prisons, mass arrests of Arab men, collective punishment of Arab villages, demolition of homes, curfews in occupied territories, IDF looting private homes and businesses, Israeli refusal to allow humanitarian aid into refugee camps and occupied zones, indiscriminate killings, bombings of villages.
Israeli Occupation
Date: 6/8/1970Call Number: CD 705Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Israeli OccupationCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Accounts of atrocities committed against Arabs, Christians, and Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1948. Includes graphic descriptions of torture in Israeli prisons, mass arrests of Arab men, collective punishment of Arab villages, demolition of homes, curfews in occupied territories, IDF looting private homes and businesses, Israeli refusal to allow humanitarian aid into refugee camps and occupied zones, indiscriminate killings, bombings of villages.
USP Florence-Pelican Bay SHU
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 427Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Story on CNN in the 1990s. ADX Florence has been called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies” and CNN repeats the official government position that ADX Florence - the worst control unit prison - is a "place for prisoners who have committed crimes against other prisoners." One of the interviewee’s is political prisoner Oscar López-Rivera.
Special on Pelican Bay by 60 Minutes. Interviews include several prisoners and prison guards about their experiences in Pelican Bay. It also recounts how prisoners sued the state of California for human rights violations and torture.
