Control Units
This collection contains materials pertaining to the proliferation of control units and super-max prisons across the US.
Documents
![Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations](images/thumbnails//29284.jpg)
Publisher: Health Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control UnitDate: 11/15/1988Volume Number: 15-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Control Units
Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates Puerto Rico; Oye-Listen; What is Torture?; Stress and Illness Biography
![Midwest Regional Hearing: Control units, Prisons & Political Prisoners](images/thumbnails//29275.jpg)
Format: PamphletCollection: Control Units
Advertising the event Control Units, Prisons and Political Prisoners
![Social control and the Politics of Prisons!](images/thumbnails//29272.jpg)
Reproduction. Contains articles by Sundiata Lumuba; Hatari WaHaki; Dharuba Cinque Kalahari; Daud Obika Tulam; Kareen Stovall; Gene Jones; Ojore Nuru Lutalo; Bill Sanderson; Peter Page; and Tom Manning. Also includes Rothman DJ. The American Way of Jail (review of Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie and Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison by David C. Andersion), in The New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1998.
![Method(s) of Placement - Management control Unit (MCU) - Trenton State Prison](images/thumbnails//29252.jpg)
Format: StatementCollection: Control Units
Reproduction of packet on conditions and placement criteria in New Jerseys Control Units.
![Uses and Effects of: Control Unit Prisons](images/thumbnails//29245.jpg)
Reproduction. Bonnie Kerness interviews with Sundiata Acoli and Jalil Muntaqim. These interviews were conducted to be heard at the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons' event Hearing on Control Unit Prisons in the United States.
![Marion and Lexington Control Unit p.1](images/thumbnails//30454.jpg)
This video examines the women's control unit in the basement of Lexington FCI. Taken from recordings between 1986 and 1988, this video features general information as well as interviews with three of the five women being held in Lexington.