Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
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The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) was a movement organization that opposed control unit prisons in particular, and racism and oppression in general. It was founded in 1985 and came to a close in 2000. Over the course of those 15 years, CEML led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and tried to build a national movement against “end-of-the-line” prisons. Along the way the Committee wrote thousands of pages of educational and agitational literature and pioneered new ways of analyzing and fighting against this national quagmire that morphed into the proliferation of the “prison industrial complex.”
Collection includes: Publications on their efforts to shut down the Marion Prison control unit, prevent the opening of USP Florence, CO; protests against toxic water at Crab Orchard Lake; efforts to improve conditions for inmates; efforts to stop the proliferation of Control Units in general; and further human rights and social justice in the US prison system.
Documents
![Flyer Advertising No Supermax Prison T-Shirts](images/thumbnails//27340.jpg)
![From Alcatraz to Marion to Florence: Control Unit Prisons in the United States](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
![Campaign to Stop the Illinois Supermax Prison: A Response to Governor Edgar's Illinois Task Force on Crime and Corrections](images/thumbnails//27379.jpg)
![State Expected to Address Crime Problem With a Super Max](images/thumbnails//27344.jpg)
![Open and Shut Case: Prison Space Needed](images/thumbnails//27350.jpg)
![Maybe We should Bar failed Prison Policies](images/thumbnails//27356.jpg)
![Prison: town Takes Good With Bad](images/thumbnails//27380.jpg)
![Supermaximum Prison Peril Warned](images/thumbnails//27361.jpg)