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![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//5675.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 336Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Mind Control or Social Control?
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur.
Transcript available for download.
![Geronimo Pratt at CNB](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Perspectives on political prisoners and the prison industrial complex. The Attica Rebellions of 1971 is discussed, David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 speaks. Johnson, who served time with Geronimo Pratt, speaks about co-authoring the 1970 Folsom Manifesto, which demanded prison justice and human rights. Dorsey Nunn, former prisoner and activist with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children also speaks.
![Real Dragon Reborn](images/thumbnails//6144.jpg)
Date: 8/21/1999Call Number: RD 074Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Real Dragon (In Your Ear)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Inserts from special that spans the history of Real Dragon and later shows, with focus on Black August, George Jackson, Puerto Rican and other political prisoners.
![Shut Down the Control Units](images/thumbnails//6509.jpg)
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.
![Geronimo Ji Jaga at Pasadena CC](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Geronimo Ji Jaga speaking at Pasadena Community College on prison and COINTELPRO.
![Political Prisoners in US Control Units](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 1/24/1992Call Number: PM 407Format: CassetteProgram: KPFA BrainstormCollection: Marianna Penitentiary
Discussion of Control Unit prisons with interviews by Bo Rita Brown. Interview with Dr. Corey Weinstein, and Political Prisoners Susan Rosenberg and Sylvia Baraldini while imprisoned at Marianna, Florida.
![Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101 (#1)](images/thumbnails//7855.jpg)
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
![Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101 (#2)](images/thumbnails//7856.jpg)
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
![Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101](images/thumbnails//7858.jpg)
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.