Subcollections

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  Medical Care In Prison
  This collection contains audio and print materials related to health and medical care in prison.
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  Aplan Anarchist
  The Anarchist Prisoners Legal Aid Network (APLAN) is an Anarchist organization that provides legal aid to known anarchist prisoners and publishes the newsletter We Never Sleep.
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  Break the Chains
  Break the Chains is a non-hierarchical collective working toward building an egalitarian society free of prisons. Their focus is on prison issues, including fighting state repression, prisoner support and prison abolition.
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  Buffalo Chip
  Buffalo Chip is a quarterly newsletter published by Nebraskans for Justice to provide information about justice issues in the US, especially political prisoners. Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa are often the focus.
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  Bulldozer
  The Bulldozer collective was formed in February 1980 when 4-5 activists from various places in southern Ontario decided to put out newsletters (Prison News Service/ The Marionette) dealing with prison-related issues.
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  Cointelpro
  This collection contains material on the FBI program COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). This program served to disrupt, destroy and infiltrate many progressive organizations during the 60s-70s in the U.S.
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  Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
  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.
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  Control Units
  This collection contains materials pertaining to the proliferation of control units and super-max prisons across the US.
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  Critical Resistance
  Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. It was formed in 1997.
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  Cuban Prisoners
  This collection contains materials about Cuban political prisoners being held in the United States. The main focus is on the Cuban Five.
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  Death penalty
  This collection contains materials related to the morality of the death penalty and its effectiveness as a method of punishment.
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  Death Penalty/Waiting Room Rick Kamler
  Based upon specifications of the death row visiting room at San Quentin Prison, California, Richard Kamler\'s The Waiting Room is an interactive installation of images, sounds, and citizens.
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  Drugs in Prisons
  Contents include materials from the Drug Policy Alliance\'s Breaking the Chains Conference (2002), assorted news clippings around the topic and a digitally available comic book, Prisoners of the War on Drugs.
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  Folsom Manifesto
  The Folsom Manifesto was written in 1970 and served as the catalyst for a 19 day strike. Over 2,400 prisoners participated and refused to leave their cells for nineteen days, in the face of constant hunger, discomfort, and psychological intimidation.
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  Freedom Now
  Freedom Now was a national organization committed to building a broad movement in support of human rights and amnesty for political prisoners and p.o.w.s in the USA.
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  Freedom Now FN - Tribunal
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  Grand Jury
  This collection contains materials pertaining to the use of grand juries to repress political movements. Resources include historical context, what to do if the FBI shows up and principles of non-collaboration.
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  HRC: Human Rights Campaign
  Inaugurated in 1988, the Human Rights Campaign for Political Prisoners was a coalition of families and friends of political prisoners, professionals, religious leaders, and community activists.
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  Insurgent
  The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression based in New York City.
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  Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience
  Prisoners of Conscience is a religious and community based organization supporting prisoners of conscience or political prisoners in the United States.
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  Justice for John
  This collection contains 8 press releases regarding the imprisonment of John C. Ewing.
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  Justice Matters
  This collection contains the newsletters of the Western Prison Project, now known as Partnership for Safety and Justice, based in Portland, Oregon. They focus on prison activism and the criminal justice reform movement in the Western United States.
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  LA Prison Times
  This collection contains copies of the LA Prison Times. The purpose of the LA Prison Times is to provide a common platform to represent the diverse L.A. organizations doing critical work around criminal justice issues.
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  Lexington Control Unit for Women
  The Lexington Control Unit was an experimental government prison built to house five women political prisoners. This collection contains materials related to the campaign to shut it down, its conditions and the women forced to live there.
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  Literary Prisoners
  This collection contains writings and literary selections mostly from political prisoners in the United States.
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  Marianna Penitentiary
  This collection features materials describing the conditions at Marianna FCI, opened in August 1988. Topics include misogyny, racism, psychological control, lack of programming, and the presence of women political prisoners.
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  Marion
  This collection contains a history of Marion Prison, the Marion lock-down and the subsequent creation of the Marion Control Unit and current situation at Marion.
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  Midnight Special
  Published by the National Lawyers Guild, Midnight Special served to provide news of the situation within the prisons from the prisoners point of view and disseminate legal information which will be a direct help in securing and expanding prisoner rights.
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  Military Tribunals
  This collection contains materials related to military courts, tribunals and treatment of Prisoners of War.
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  Missouri Prison Labor Union
  The Missouri Prison Labor Union was organized by prisoners and supporters in 1998 in the hope of bettering the living and working conditions in the state of Missouri prison system.
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  Native Prisoners
  This collection contains materials and information relating to native and indigenous people incarcerated in the United States.
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  New Afrikan Prisoners
  This collection contains materials related to New Afrikan political prisoners and prisoners of war.
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  Pelican Bay
  This collection contains materials related to Pelican Bay State Prison located in Crescent City, California. Includes audio as well as copies of the Pelican Bay Prison Express, a periodical created by an independent citizens solidarity group.
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  Pontiac Brothers
  This collection contains materials stemming from the 1978 Pontiac Prison Rebellion in Pontiac, Illinois. Thirty-one prisoners were prosecuted for roles in the 1978 rebellion, one of the largest prison riots in the United States.
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  Prison Art Newsletter
  Founded by former political prisoner Ed Mead, Prison Art Newsletter was created to provide an outlet for the sale of crafts and artwork created by political prisoners. It draws articles and perspectives from voices inside of outside of prison walls.
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  Prison Conditions
  This collection contains audio and paper documents detailing various aspects of living conditions inside of US prisons.
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  Prison Focus
  Prison Focus is a publication of California Prison Focus, a nonprofit organization that works with and on behalf of prisoners in California control units and other institutions.
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  Prison Labor
  This collection contains materials related to prison labor, the prison industrial complex and the growing links between corporations and incarceration.
• Prison Newspapers
  This collection contains the prison publications Anvil, Arm the Spirit and The Outlaw. These publications were fueled by the modern prison movement and the growing mass militancy of the 1970s.
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  Prisoners Union
  The Prisoners Union had its origins in a 1971 work strike at Folsom Prison. The organization was named the Prisoners Union to stress the idea that certain goals were being sought by all who suffer the same conditions of confinement.
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  Prisons - Stats, General
  This collection contains historical background, statistics and organizing information focused on the US prison population.
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  Prisons - Visitor Search
  This collection contains materials related to visiting searches conducted in federal prisons.
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  Prisons - Youth
  This collection contains audio and paper materials related to juvenile justice and incarceration. The criminalization of youth, conditions inside of juvenile facilities and poetry and art are three major focuses.
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  Private Prisons
  Private prisons or for-profit prisons, have been an integral part of the corrections industry since the 1990s. These prisons are operated by publically traded companies and generate revenue based on how many prisoners they house.
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  Race and the Prison System
  This collection contains materials relating to the connections between race and imprisonment in the United States.
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  Raza Prison
  This collection contains materials relating to prisoners who identify themselves or their struggle under La Raza.
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  San Quentin Six
  The San Quentin Six were a group of six prisoners at San Quentin Prison in California who were accused of participating in an August 21, 1971 escape attempt that left six people dead, including George Jackson.
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  Sentencing Guide/Corres
  This collection contains materials relating to sentencing guidelines in the United States.
• Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
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  Torture
  This collection contains materials that pertain to torture. Most of the materials relate to torture in prison but some relate to police torture and torture internationally.
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  United Prisoners Union
  The United Prisoners Union was formed in 1970 in California by attorneys and ex-prisoners. By 1973, it had split into two groups, the Prison Union which focused on prison issues and the United Prisoners Union which allied with radical Bay Area groups.
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  Violence in Prison
  This collection contains materials relating to the barbaric, state sanctioned violence that occurs in prisons across the United States.
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  Real Dragon Prison Project
  Book published annually from 1985-1996, contains poetry, inspirational pieces, political updates and graphics produced by activists to send a once a year gift of love and solidarity to currently incarcerated prisoners of war and political prisoners.
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  Abolitionist
  The Abolitionist is a bilingual Spanish/English magazine published by Critical Resistance and dedicated to challenging and dismantling the prison industrial complex
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  Attica
  The Attica Rebellion lasted from September 9-13 1971 and serves as the largest prison rebellion in US history as well as a symbol for prison resistance for decades to follow.
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  American Friends Service Committee
  A social justice organization of people of faith committed to justice and peace through humanitarian service and political action.
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  Irish Republican Army
  This collection contains materials from the Irish struggle for self-determination. Specific focuses of the collection include information on the Irish Republican Army, prison resistance, and international solidarity campaigns.
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  Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
  This underground movement has been at the forefront of the Political Prisoners and Prisoners of war solidarity movement since the early 20th century.
• Graphics
• Mental Health
• NAPD