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52 ower v sy promoton eeesvely ks n g fom of espond
Incet Repors or 0", ctatons o e violaors. O f e most
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Anoiasprisons, ve Liyion, adds, They 0y 10 rag p e
oorae o, 4 3 P, o pests i,

The Balteaton of ool Unin
Convlurc ave e sprading scros h couniry at an slarming .
More han 36 st Fave ontl sk pisons o secons ofprisrs bt seve
25 conol . Many humin ighs groups havecondemned ool it
‘onditons. One oranzaton,Hman Righs Walch, watchdog 5oup.
e severl U prsonsandrepored at he “Marionzabn” of prcs
Inthis couney contatedtesinge ot itusbing eature o e US.
prson sysem. Notsurprisingly, e priscersn s conlursae even
For prepersonatly lck b e gemers] priscs popubn.

nth el prison sy, Markn s e b replced by s i
Forece, Colocado. Maion was ot crignll bull 3 conteol it prsce.
1thss s b st o h sk of Emplementing theeve S
ol of prscnarswhich o Burss Of Prons (BOP) Dt .
Vichiel Q. n ssimony beor Congresiona Subecmmiie e
il of 1985, 53 ol consuie an provement upon Mario'’s xsing
egine. In e i of prsncrats,Marion s outdatnd by Al new
gy Marin has, however,erved 13 purpose 33 el o ekt
o ! g ch ot s gt Couny.

+ THE PROPOSED PRISON IN'FLORENCE; COLOR.

ADO:
ESS PRISONER DISSENT

o showed utsoliry aninement was e most
buld- comnon disciparyacton Indoded inis
cprom repotwee esiveris by prisnersatng it
siuming - penonlnegriy was o ofensigled ut o
ity bl rament, Respondens ot suvey
popul- dscrbed isgroup “osewith princples o
of " ineligemce’ e wi ity snd sl e
vould spect“auborsof bl ariless“rosvasd
utand slimprovrss o “veraly epesing (]
venl opon’, ‘wanigiobe Feaid s ahumin
it beig”anor“reporing conditons e
ceina ouside” Thestdy shows, hreore, bt
cigeand pracice suchas seding prsones ool i,
whichis s on biary and uecive -
mens by uards ndar prisenfficals il
edais gt prisoers whoare mostaly i be -
wilbe g thepricn sy,

o hat s adited atthe st vl hata rise’s
i resnt poical bl e he b o s
scoers prisorer 02 ontolurit. I leter
acttat Congresperon Kstemed, e then e of he
Congresiona swhcommitee

‘atoverses he 5OP, .
- NEW CONTROL UNIT PRISON PLANNED FOR ILLINOIS

Garemor Bl Tk e on Cime o Corecions

InFebrary 192, Govemorim Edga crted e s Tsk Forceon
(Grine and Comecos osensibly o develo “rative, g angesolutins
10t prolems o prisen overcrowding The lincis prsn sysemisacing
anoverrowding . Dsigped 1o hld 000 prisner, ety
houses 31500, The Wi of Comctons IDOC) projcs it
the prisn sysem willonain 0000 peopeby 195, an ncrease of 8500
witinthe et e yers. Onef priay dtesf e Task Force was ©
sty alematies o cacerston atoffecostefcive e of proec-
ing public ety nd pnalingofeners”

“Th Task Force epored ht “buing priscs i ot acost fctiveslution
0 theavercrowding prolen.” Th Task orces Fral Report noed that

Minois has bl 15w priscns within thlast 15 years with cuss urpsing

5560 millon i e st ecade. I thi e Repor, el nJune 195,
hey scknowledged h fc t hreis s crime dspte is masive
progamol neeaten, 8 obious adision o he i of pricrs.

Insptea the videnceand nspiteof what hey hemseve ay n e
epors,the membersof he T Force -the grstmsorty whie men who
serve s prosecutrfdges,aw enforcers nd pstand pesent prisen
oficils - coclded it theslution o th prolemis o buld more prsrs.
The TaskForc proosed bukling o oprig mor han 00 new el
Induding (30 b hecomversion of o5t bio Syebasyand S0 ln a mr.

funchonof ool i, thy did not e o edcate s
ey swallowed th officl s bout conrlurits reducin vilnce within
prson sysems withots0mach s bk of diset. Although e Comit-
et End the Marcn Lockdowprovidd the Tk Force withevidnce it
ool s are i, st forure chambers, e Task Fore st
Igpore s informaton. Vlokas s tohaveancpen dison o
debte egedin contrl urit prisns,nd he would ot allow he fow Task
Foce mmbers opposed 10 th oo it o egister o documen s
cpposison.

“Th sicationforhe contol it hatt would solve th problem of
violencein ini prsons. Contlunisaeas efctve i conoling.
vilence 13 prionsae i preventing crie: hatis oy, nokatal,Trre
Tave been o iturbances and masive w3 asodatedwithsuch
prisos. The TaskFoce aditid, Threhas ben 0 formal vl of
e units”an they coldprovideno concrete evidence thatconrl s
reduce vioecewiti th prsonsystem. However, s dd ot ssp hem
om ecommeding ft Tinis e sch an expesive, desuctiveand
e prson.

Dlingi Pepetuaionof Rcom.

The Task Forcesated hat drug el and vioen s e conbuting o
heincreasein il erir. In e neim Repor it sttt e
poalaciad Incsense fn the pelsen sopulation woukd serelt bam he csease b
g

I
E WAR ON DRUGS

‘Th rpicyincrasig imprisonment rat s gy due o mesure taken1 patof the so<alled“waron g In December 19907 of h poplein
Feceralpriscns were drugofender. (ot tat g fenders nly e those convicted o a g ffereno tose conviced f nrog e who
haves drug Rstory),nfact the e of g feners e Fderl prisns oy s reter han e e Feeralprisn population 1950

Many more s, ongersentece d mandatrysetences o ru offenes e ot 1 the rcord s of people ek bars.

Duriogthe 805 the e rug aressnces by ove 505, Albough whiean Blck peope e g roughy e same e acadig 03 sy
by USA Today, Black persons four e ey b st andrg chrgsas whie peson.This fre s rge s 2 ties n Misoespls.
Mandatrysntencng . pariclrly brolaspectof s war,sice 19, of e convicd, 3% weeBlck orHispani and e third ofthe g had 10
pror imial recod.

Desie th ypeand e hageamoust of moneyspnt e has b il chang i he e o useintheUSover e past fwyears. The:
Nascral nsute n Drg Abuse clyreoried n ceseinthenamber of weelyan iy coaine wers i 191 In dcition the

suveyshowed a nces i rug s i the Black communy, the comuniyhat has e hardet ity s war, e theprisnsthe General Acout
ing fficeecenty repord tat nly 20% o he morean alfa oSt priscersn e o drog rvatent sl eceiveany sttt s ear
hatthe “war n drugs” s ver it o with redocingdrog addicin.

ove th facs about i “crusade” i cearthats act 1 e core an has ot other thanecing 1 deterioation of commariies o peole
of colo. Police arget poo,Blackad Lati neighborhoods o make “drug sweeps” nd arestsevn thoughthe great mafrty o drug vsrs re white. A
frontpage sor nthe Lo Angeles Timnes s that while bout 8% o ration'sdrug s are whie, the maforyof hosearese for g fenes are Bk,
Racsm als expains why th FederalDrug Abuse Ac eqates slling Fvegrams o cack ocine, worth bout$100,with 00 grams o owdered cocine
‘worthabout SSOD00, o cimes drawing mandatorypicn e offveyears. Back g wsrs e e chespr i cucaine, while whie g users
moreofen et reltveyexpnsivepowder, whic s h el profmaerfor the drug .

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PPUC 1s committed to saving our environment from destruction,
which fncludes all plant and animal 1ife, as well as our air.
We believe that unless and until these changes are
made...until the conditions in which we live on this planet
changes, we are all doomed and so is our future. It is to this
end that PPUC fight. It fs to this end that we build and advocate
destruction of all oppression and repression and not compromise
with it by becoming reformist. Until A1l are FREE . . « None of
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In the trenches...

ATf Khalid Abdullah #148130

PO S YN _FIR0LIV
bolition of Prison Mean
' Justice, Laws ang any kind
lScciety? YES

ST PRISON'S

Catherine Baker

o e mOSt countris, evetually get out of jai,
e Baker Thig i oy

the place to analyze how we have arrivec
nd sberaion, but prisog only misss its vocution by ¢
@:flfl:: breadth: the death’it i

o :
o e cdmig. Prison confizemeat sl

s

e bing svgh. e the remaining 20% casiderd Gngeross 1o
ey agea s sieoghencd,ciber by imentg
i eath penates (deth by inection), o by aausly
imprisoning dlinquents for i, o by dasiing them as mentaly i
people who cither can of canaot be retumed to socety cured and

o nsits of imprisoning the remaiing 0% (or30% or 3% ord
o nagin the ind o arganingte figures il b he s o)
e etingof “Gangerus’. Assapegots and syl hse
e would be the playtings o asinister i e scéne that would
B even more hatefilled than today’s. One camnot consider frecing
e enders wihout inlin tha offenders i ae considred
seious must no be reed-
ihen there s tlk o reducing prison terms, on agtin i [0
“soften the punishment”, is “

On the other hand, we G quite sccept and hope that cvery
peion might count o peple who would ssodae wilh i o g
P esaie conflic stuation, provided tis helpis punciual, nique
124 indvidualized, and this s why we misirus all concliton

re, which vould jus be a futher insutionaizaton of
conships. For we all specily e from ot being ale 1o
ete relatonships that are nox immediately reduced 10 socl
machinery.

Coullics are not handied by those who experience them but

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hrogh so-alled “objecive” legal procedures, which i realy make

objets out of allof us.

e do not need o vent out indignaton ot judgements on sace. !

Clerysome acions o behaviorupset and scandalze s, b wc do

ot consder ourseves “rewarded fo our roubles” by the resionof -

S achine that is o more inresied in wha s paiclar sbout my

ban what s pariclar about the perpecrator'sapinion of s
o Jusi i done i our name tht i, i place of e But f oy
yhfiunbcuklnlnnlmgfi:i&mwohmnflmzuq

P bebrought p withou oaking ech peron's usiquenes e
e mordece, vicim ot judge, 0 one an put imsel i anethers
o1

know that we are imprisoned insid walls of conssnt, But we
anot take uj on our behall any revot tha inends to reprocuce
social rlatons inprison that might sill be misig, for, conrary 19
2 widespread idea prison sociaizes prisoners s much as it
(respec orhierarchies, authorized kinds of lesure activiy, blackmal
at work, privation and privaization of iner-individual reltonshis,
ete.). Prison s nota diseae of our society at al ther i noting
monstrous about it it is the height of societ, the height of al
societes of all community organization of socil relsions. The
medi,th polic, the jusicesystem, but also education, moralty and
culture—everything aims to mainain the cohesiveness of the whole
by forc. Prson punishment is necessary for order and order s
necessay for society. We could never imagine a socity without
order, and order without prison punishment. We have all ntemalzed
tis 50 well—einforcing the bars and guilotines inour mindsto the
point o going mad wich anguish because f i—that the Sute keeps
us under its thimb quite “naturally,” because we are, in realy,
“iresponsble”. But the.Stat s ony a machine seving something
more terriying than el behind th State there i a wil, human
il Man i there with his laws. Down wich Man.

‘We are men who are in revolt againse Man, That animal i a social

But prote
are two sides of the same

o aplace. §

cked into roles

er and indepen-

‘And again we lapse into

old idea that everyone must

say in his place if we want the system to

uncion. The perpetuation of this system,

of this organized set of reltions, sill

semains cach person's ole aim. But his

sole aim is abways outside of oneself, f
“The definiton of &

e imposed on m

is obviou

course, the law o he sironge
opposed to force 5o long as the force in
question seeks to restrin us. SO it is
to rehash that delinguency, a5

of our aspiraions

STRIAL COMIPLEX
L ECONOMY

globalization of capital. Several strands converge —
the end of the Cold War, changing relations between
labor and capital on an intemational scale, domestic
economic decline, racism, the U.S. role as policeman
of the world, and growth of the intemational drug
economy — creating a booming prison/industrial
complex. And the prison/industrial complex is
rapidly becoming an essential component of the U.S.
economy.

19
One wave of capial fight
occumed in the 1970,
Manufactuing such s textles in
the Northeast moved sout to
Souh Carolina, Temnessee,
Alsbama — noneunion sates
‘where wages wer low. During the
19805, many more industries
(stel, aut, etc) closed p shop
— moving on to Mexico, Brazil,
or Taivan where wages were a
mere faction ofthose inthe US,,
and environmental health and
safery standards were much lower,
allowing busineses t0 be “more
compeitve” - that is. more
proftable t the expense of both
the areas bandoned and the areas
entered. Most seriously hurt by
these olant closures and lavoffs

their cooperation with the US.
govemments war against the
Viemamese NLF and ther
national lberation forces, the CIA
flew local eroin outof Southeast
Asia and into Amerca. s no
accident that heroin addiction in
the US. ose exponentaly in the
1960,

Not i it an aceident tha coesne
began to prolferate in the US
during the 19805, Cenal America
is the strategic midpoint for air
rave between Colombia and the
US. The Contra War against
Sandinista Nicaragua, as well as
the var against the_ratonal
liberation foces in EI Slvador,
was laroely shout control of this

southem part of the country. The
drug trade, bowever (production,
transfe,and disribution paint) is
all in the north. The drug war
money is being used primarily to
fightaganst the Zapatisa ebels in
the southem stae of Chiaps who
are demanding land reform and
economic. policy chanes which
are diametrically opposed o the
ransnaionalcorporate agenda.

In the Colombian jungles of
Cartagena de Chaira, coca has
become the . anly viable
commercial rop. In 1996. 30,000
famers bloeked oads and sirstips
1o prevent crop spraying from
airera, The Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Calombia (FARC) one

k]

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disproportionate than thei relatve:
amest raes It s estimated that i
1994, an any given day one outof
every 128 US adults was
incarerated. while one out of
every 17 Affcan-American adult
mals was incarcertd,

The diffeential in senencing for
powder and crack cocain is one
glaring example of
insttutionalized racism. - About
0% of crack amests are of
Afrcan-Americans, whil 75% of
powder cocaine amests are of
whies. Under federal law, i akes
only five grams ofcrackcocaine 10
wrigger 2 five-yer_ mandatory
minimum sentence. But it akes
€00 orame of nowder cncal

a nuthell.sructural adjustment. spending, and skyrocketing prison
res cuts in socil Services, spending, Walk through ay poor
vaizaton of saterun industy, uban neighborhood: - school
eal of agreemens with labor sysiems are crmbling afer.
out working conditons and school programs, lbraries, parks
nimum wage! conversion of and drug weament centers are
ltiase fam lands into cash closed. But you will see more
p agriculure for export, and the police statons and more cops,
manting of rade laws which Oftn, th only “socil serviee"
tect local economies. Under - availabl to por young people is
wetural adjustment, police and jail.
iary expenditues are the only
verment spending that is The dismanting of socil
couraged. The sovereigny of programs, and the growing
ons i compromised when, 5 dominance of the ightwing
the case of Viewam, trade agenda in US poliis has been
ctions ar threaened uless the made possble, tleast i part, by
vermment allows Camel the suesessul repesson of the
arettes 10 litter the countrvside civil riohte and Fherminy

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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

Prisons are not reducing rime.
But they are fracuring aleady
winerble fumiies and
communites.

Poor people of color are being
locked wp in gossly
disproporionate numbers,
primarily for non-violent crimes.
But Americans do not fel safer.

As “criminal” become scapegoats
for our foundering economy and
our deterioating social strcture,
even the pretease of rehabiliation
is quickly disappearing from our
penal_philosophy. Afer all
rehabliate for what? To go back
into an economv which hae no

effctively challenge the power of out the mercenaries and deposed
the transnatonal corporations. the Prime Ministr,

There have been some wonderful, » A one day general strke shut
shining instaices of inematonal down Hait in January 1997,
worker solidary. In the early Stikers demanded the suspension
1980, 3M workers in South ofnegotations bevween the Prime.
Afica walked out in suppart of Minister and the Inemational
suiking 3 workers in New Monetry FundWorld Bank They
Jersey. Recently, longshore protested the ausierity measures
workers in Denmark. Span, imposed by the IMF and WB
Sweden and seveal other which would mean laying off
counties closed down ports 7,000 goverment workers and the
around the worldin solidarty with privatization of the electric and
suiking Liverpool dockers. The. telephone companies.
company was forced to negotate,

When Renaul closed its plantin > In Nigeri, the Ogoni people
Belgium, 100000 demonstratedin conducted a protractd eight year
Brussls, pressring the French stuggle against Shell Oil. Acid
and Belgium govemments 1o ran, and huncreds ofoilsils and
— e b e 2

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March 1997, demanding to be pid
the minimum wage. Although they
lostalgarion bate o auain this
ight their sike gained atention
and suppont from seveal local
Iabor unions.

Just- a5 the priconfindustial
complex isbecoming inreasingly
central o the growth of the US
econamy, prisoners are a crucial
Pt of building effective
opposion 1o the transnaional
corponte agenda. Besause oftheir
enforced invisibility.
powerlessess, and isoltion, s
ar too common for prisonersto be
left out of the equation of
intemational solidanty. ~ Ye,
opposing the expansion of the

23

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17 (206) 781-6524

LN offers xicemely affordable subseription aes
ear or prisoners (57,50 or six menths:

ear for non-incarcerated individuals: and

ear for attorneys. institutional/hish-income,
Var On Drugs 2o

+ Every year, 8,000 to 14,000 people die from illegal drugs
inthis country. Every year, over 500,000 people ie from lega!
drugs (Tobacco, liquor and prescriptions). This s roughly a fify
{0 one ratio. Alcohol alone i involved in seven times more vic-
lent crimes than all illegal substances combined. Yet our Gov-
emment coninues to subsidize alcohol and tobacco, while de-
monizing those who would exercise a different choice.

Sources:Caifano, Joseph, Behind Brs: Substance Abuse and Ameic s
Prison Popuaton, Forward by Joseph Calfano. The Natonal Ceter i AG.
dicion and Substance Abuse at Columbia Uriversity (1998).

+ It's been empirically shown that education and treatment
is seven times more cost effective than arrest and incarceration
for substance addiction, yet we continue to spend more tax dol-
lars on prisons than treatment.

‘Sources: Rydell, C.P. & Everingham. S.5., Controlfing Cocaine, P

26
GENCY RESPONSE
| POLITICAL PRISONER
#913752

as continually taken retaliatory and
) were falsely accused in the protest
Tommy Smith] by the State of Indiana on

general population at the Pendleton
retext of investigation, under orders by
[alone his due process rights and without
iced on G.A.S. investigation

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. - SEPTEMBER 1996
nd individuals. Th!yminthcprmndtdmmng7,?
emselves about control unit prisons in general an
bout M.C.C. and the Wabash S.H.U. in Indiana. Some
the group is ready to respond to the Indiana 6
tuation as well as more general situations in Indiana
ontrol units, but they are still in formation.
Whatneedstohappennow: Itisstill appropriate
) contact Commissioner Ed Cohen at the Indiana
.0.C. Also, contact members of the Indiana Black
egislative Caucus. It seems that peaple have been
ontacting the acting D.0.C. commissioner. That's
ood; please keep up the pressure. But it doesn't seem
ke many people have been contacting the legislators.
lease write or call them, even if you're not from Indi-
na. Demand that 1) All charges be dropped against all
he prisoners affected by this bogus investizgation: 2) All
story? Get in touch with Us or with the prisoners. Wecan'tlet thiscase set aprecedent! Let's stayintouch
Most of the prisoners are having trouble getting with eachother. And stay in touch with the prisoners, 20
their property. They could use booksor publications, A Withthemguuddehmimfinnvfmfimm,
letter of support couldn't hurt, and if you have done ~ the love. and hope of movement toward Freedom,
something about the prisoners’ situation, let them Melissa for the
know. Brew City Anti-Authoritarian Collective
‘Thank you all for paying attention to this situation. POBox93312/Milwaukee WI 53203/414-264-1938

-_—

Sadiki and Firaun were both charged with infractions relating to the “conspiracy."

They are the first two to be snatched up and put into the reconstructed NSB
segregation unit at Indiana State Prison

Mangwiro Sadiki (s/n J. Malone) #913752 and Malik Umoja “Firaun” #30727

Indiana State Prison
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o IOFtad Lo%egrity and Mah seral stasdands of prisen
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iatquity. I's FefarTiag to the Arpcristes asd brutalities
Sapased pon Bath the puklte and prisosers by prisos offietals,
of the corruption bntad the facads of cals and offictosey.

My saz 48 Prask 3, Atwood aad I reside 1n 8 superaax

of iolanee, etk prisen gurts s by 2
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nrast o the watoty 51 4 iree seciety 11 sEtuully Srce Sam
e creee of ihark o viatence sirees 1o puraess sven 0 the
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Yo rest Urs ST B e e eontera s,

Lorenzo Stone-Bey

ORENZO STONE-BEY WAS AR-

'RESTED when he was 17. The amrest-

ing officer the tzial judge, and the

Attorney General of Indiana each

admit that his arrest was illegal,
without probable canse or an arrest wazrant. That
did't matter in Indiana's criminal justice.

‘Ee was arested on Pebruary 25, 1976. The af-
‘Sdavit for probable canse for his arrest was not fled
until March 1, 1976, The arrest warrant was ot
served until April 1, 1976, They didn't have a case
against him, so-he was detained, hidden from his
famil, deprived of his juvenle rights, so they could
eronts one. The arresting offcertold the Grand Jury

Police did not have fingerprints from the gun
‘nor test for powder burns on Lorenzo, The medical
examiner reported a.22 caliber weapon in the right
hmdofthgmuxdn:fimudamulib&w:::n
ying by bis left knee. The .22 caliber gun came up
‘missing, was never found or produced at trial, was
‘never accounted for. Larenzo's attorney should have
objected to any evidence or testimany concerning
the lost gun since the state was not able to produce
. What happened to #? Nowhere in the indicment,
the probable-cause affidavit, the Grand Jury testi-
‘mons, the medical examiner’s report, and the trial
testimony does it stats what sort of weapan or cali-

‘ber ar bullet was invalved in the shooting. The pros-

S ;3 T L anrier that

29
an fights back!

herself, as any
as the right to
n being except
, is. A single
took her
fe and now
arcerated for
own life.

aw clerk at the

k)

You may have seen her story
onTVor read about herin the
news. If you would like to
support the clemency move-
ment, would like more infor-
‘mation, or would like to start
aclemency movement in your
own state, write to:

Christy Marie Chp

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WHAT IS THE ANARCHIST BL

Thacrigins ofine AnarchistBlack
Cross cale back 1o the Russian
Ravolution. An AnarchistRed Cross
was formed in Tsarist Russia to
arganizs aid for poliical prisoners
and their familes, and sall-dafense
against poliical aids by the Cos-
sack army. During the Russian
CiviWar, herganizaton changed
itsname o he Black Cross n order
0 avoid confusion with the Red
Cross who were orgarizing efefin
the county. Ater the Bolsheviks
seized power he Black Cross was
moved o Barin. ltcontinued o id
prsoners of he Bolshavik regime,
e wall g ik ad i el et

erawre, andiscuss srategy and
1actics. Wo dowhatever we can o
prevent prisoners becoring iso-
lated from the rost of the move-
ment. We fundraise on behal of
priscners of their defensa commit-
tees forlegal ases or other needs,
and organize demonstatons o
pubiic campaigns of saicarty wit
prisoners we support, We regard
prisoners as an active part of our
movement and seek to maintain

lenged, be it in South Africa, occt-
pied Palesie, Chi, Ireland or
Caraca, ftievitably ms o violent
rapression and pofeal imprison-
ment o maintain sal, In 1989 we
selup and "Emergency Responsa
Notverk” (ERN) € respond o po-
liica raids, crackdowns, death
sontances, hungerstikes, torure
or lings of membersof or prison-
ors fom groups and communites
‘We workin sliarity with, An ERN

3¢

ACK CRoSs?

10 buding resistance. Almough
imprisonmentis in isal “poidcar,
Polica Pisaners and risaners o
War ara being had speciicaly for
theic baials or actions. Unlike
Amnesy intematonal, we dont
placajudgements onwhatars valid
and imald exprossions of rsis-
1anca: nanviolence i not a it
fon for support. Unike other or.
anizatons supportingpoliscalpis-
onars, we incuce thosa who were
“polsezed” by the prison expar.
©nce and have since become or-
ganizers nside prison. Many ‘po-
liticized" pisoners face inrramcad
37

Prisoners:
Suggestions

ugh.
he priscner tells you that anyhing was notreceived, wrte
ter appedling the confscation, usually to the warden.

nd postage stamps to help caver the costs of correspon-

ca.
her send promplly to the prisner, or let the prisoner know
You can'tsend, any flems

ta if you receive g leter later than you should have.
PARTIAL LISTING OF:

NORTH EASTERN
POLITICAL
PRISONERS AND
PRISONERS or WAL

ALBET NUH WASHINGTON
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DANNEORANY toosz001
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amember o th BlackPahe Py BPP) and
thoSlackLberaon Ay BLA).Cacuedi 1971
and falsley convicted of two Dolics murders ha

ing Irish independance and actively advocating cadl and human nghis
Lower East Sida of Y, Faey aesed n 1962, . Pat s servng 35
rsentnece o conspiacy i OnMcion i an sxropiienin Fches-

NY. The govemment aleges the uncs rom the exprepttion wer sent
e Republcan Ay (IRA).

SSEL SHOATS AFa8ss

MAABUNAMAL | ANB35

1GREEN/ 1040 E. ROY FURMAN HWY / WAYNESBURG, PA 15370
BLAPP,RssolMaroon Shots was amenbe o he Back Lty Counc

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o conicted o a poca murde and sntencd o inprsoment.
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ki prn s 1973 e anambushvih s pocn vhercos rocpae
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memberfthe Panther 21 v i i s secondpocaimpriscoment,

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RUSSEL SHOATS/ AF3ess

MUMAABUNAMAL MBS

‘SCI GREEN/ 1040 E. ROY FURMAN HWY / WAYNESBURG, PA 15370
BLAPP,Rsselarocn Shots was amemee o h Back Uty Counel

‘which mergedvilh th BPP. o te e the LA, was czpturd n 1673,

fasl omited o a poca murdr and sntecad oo nprisonmen.
79 on Deah Fow i Abamalwas a membeecf ha BFP ol

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MARSHALL EDDIE CONWAY / 116468
AW eaa /1R D A 0L
~ Supporting Prisoners:

37

Some Practical Suggestions

In supperiing prisoners, we Iry o achieve several
things. These peaple are locked in cages and are ofien
kept in conirol unils whera they spend mast of their time in
isolation. We must not allow the state to cut them off from
the outside, from the continuing struggle. We keep pris-
oners informed about and involved in the siruggles going
on through corraspondenca and visit. This also does @
lot to help lessen their isolation. Besides this, through dia-
logue you can learn a lot from the prisoner. Supporting
prisoners also invalves providing them with matericl aid,

lhrn;:gh.

the prisoner el you thet anykhing wos nct received, wrile

a leter appealing the confiscation, usually fo the warden.

:‘Sand postage stamps lo help cover the costs of camespon-
ence.

<ither send promply to the prisoner, o le the prisoner know

thet you can't send, any ffems requesied.

+Nole if you recaive a letter later than you should have.
3¢

BLACK CRosS? &

9eq, b & n South Afrca, oezt-
d Palestne, Chile, Ireland or
rack, tinaviably s ovioent
resson and poftca imprisor-
it o maintainsal In 1989 we
up and *Emargency R
twork” (ERN) i respond 1 po-
2l raids, crackdowns, death
ences, hungerstikes, torure
dlings of members o of prisa-
from groups and communites
workin solicarity with, An ERN

0 buidng resistance. Albough
mprisooment s in isal “poidcar,
Polica Prisanars and Prisaners o
War arsbeing heid speciically for
theic befels o actns. Uniike

sponse Amnesty International, we dont

placajucgements onwhatare valid
and invaid exprossons of esis-
1anca: non-violenca s not a crie.
on for supgort. Unike other or.
anizaions supporting poliscalpis-
eners, we incue thsa who were
“poliiczed” by the priscn expar-
9050 and have since become or-
ganizers insice pison. Many “po-
libcized” prisoners 1308 ineraacad
a baffered woman fights back!

HRISTY MARIE

CAMP is one of the

hundreds of women
currently serving time at the
California Institution for
‘Women for being the victim of
an abuser. Each woman has
a different story to tell. The
bond they share is that they
have all been in abusive rela-

chose to defend herself, as any
‘human being has the right to
do...” any human being except
a woman, that is. A single
stab wound took her
husband's life and now
Christy is incarcerated for
defending her own life.

Christy v}as alaw clerk at the

78

You may have seen her story
on TV or read about her in the
news. If you would like to
support the clemency move-
ment, would like more infor-
‘mation, or would like to start
aclemency movementin your
own state, write to:

Christy Marie Cémp

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olice did not have fingerprints from the gun
est for powder burns on Lorenzo, The medical
iner reported a.22 caliber weapon in the right
of the murdervictim and a .22 caliber weapon
by his left knee, The 22 caliber gun came wp
ing, was never found or produced at trial, was
r accounted for. Larenzo's attorney should have
ted to any evidence or testimony concerning
ost gun since the state was not able to produce
hat happened to it? Nowhere in the indiciment,
robable-cause affidavit, the Grand Jury testi-
y,?hgmedifilen.ph@SNmm’imm‘_l
mony does i state what sort of weapan or cali-
r bullet was invalved in the shooting. The pros-

S~ g T Y ansiem that

3¢
Plion seaff Wil be eacicely tied wp asd avencully fhie
Ropatasely eniad. This ViLi fosule i foreisg peison
ol e acilities o tecoesodats oil achivities 13 VoLl
4s facciag peison systess to hre sbdiciousl suatk, 1 peisonecs
17T Ve I 011 wvaLisble sscivitios this actic bacoses
Lohes geaecly veskaned o lsetfctive. :

T Covauiter Prisonacs cin f1ood the courts itk Lovauits

over the lasst Iiteie intraction by prisons. Use of s large
e s st it sy oo o e
T % e T e ettt el i
i st b S U R Sl e
T T ot o T e e
it

S0, nication vih Pitcn SECE: T wrstng 3
i, Sl 1, L St Do ween o
f O MO - U A
g gy i el
e e R e
T et e s e
e K o K
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pAs

one can see, tron the shave aussples, bov cructal
bncoaes i prisen revelucion. Ta aadition to smity
Simetertatics of the foresoley eusples sza

Saeh proposed reolutionagy TActL (ocher thas son-communieatian]
RIS " prison ayatea In he pockatbooki Nirieg sors statt
acstvilian vorkars, sxorbitant icigution couts, 1ad axp

o factlities, ad (1) ton-viclescs.

o reqkrds £ he secassiy f non-viclesce, prison systess
aca trvined o et ‘sqrinst violace by prisonacs. Tictics
i e ok Soppages, somaatzg ta L setivicion uné
TiEigation cuuss the prison syates to paic (hee:

Drecioss. soner 1s 8t suuke) bt provides soEni
Ehaprison systea can e visleace,

Tt vould be both extsesaly saive sed tocally dissstron
o B e e eratesy vill not isttially lesn out

TeVOLITIOWRY SIGNIFICACE OF PRISOGR SpPORT

e e ins e have encoms smars or tha ™ T
T v srutatity o1 ComiEal1 e 428 sovarnaent 11

o that S ot Swtisnch g ranaismsoniry

et von e 0 8¢ seare Shet the ecurtty o1 tho
et te partly sanss on tn st thats 1) The cerking class
R Yoparane o 168 4itve status 3 Arvone TaE stess ot 3t
oo T S pinisnad s th Sovian of the sues of SUBLLE 31 The
s e Brossnara 18 Stilos win s sioer prepuGARGA saching
e veen fesr na sopancence o the govarneent 13 Sratecticn.
Tn reslity, the sscunt or sessle 1n prisen tAE are 4 true
Covast o the sataty 91 4 ires socrety 1t sekually urce il
R o ot rize Lot ot 10 el s
EPrairal Fuont o Our Seciete 13 Seees on naven corraliing the

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to Pasapbvenia froa Bngland 1n 1042 and toured the Sasters State

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ast datiy tazpertzg with the aysterses of the Weia to'be
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Wecan'tletthiscase set aprecedent! Let's stayintouch
with each other. And stay in touch with the prisoners, 20
With the anger and determination of Resistance,
the love and hope of movement toward Freedom,
Melissa for the
Brew City Anti-Authoritarian Collective
PO Box93312/Milwaukee WI 53203/414-264-1938

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| infractions relating to the “conspiracy."

P and put into the reconstructed NSB

2 and Malik Umoja “Firaun” #30727
te Prison
ran City IN 463€0
INDIANA SIX UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 1996

Greetings,

1 hope this finds you all in good health and strong
spirits. This will be a short update on the “Indiana Six”
situation and organizing around the case. You should
have seenireceived the flyer “Demand Justice for the
Indiana 6" and the larger booklet, “Who are the Indiana
Six” Iwill not repeat information contained in either of
those publications.

Prisoners other than the six listed on the “Demand
Justice” flyer have been affected by the “investigation”
that ensued around the time of the execution of Ziyon
Yisrayah.

‘The prisoners have appealed their convictions, and
Superintendent Al Parke has still not ruled on the
appeal. Should he deny that appeal, it goes next to the
Department of Cor: ections district level andshouldthe

and individuals. They are in the process of educating
themselves about control unit prisons in general an
about M.C.C. and the Wabash S.H.U. inIndiana. Some
of the group is ready to respond to the Indiana 6
situation as well as more general situations in Indiana
control units, but they are till in formation.
Whatneedstohappennow: Itisstill appropriate
to contact Commissioner Ed Coben at the Indiana
D.0.C. Also, contact members of the Indiana Black
Legislative Caucus. It seems that people have been
contacting the acting D.0.C. commissioner. That's
good; please keep up the pressure. But it dossn't seem
like many people have been contacting the legislators.
Please write or call them, even if you're not from Indi-
ena, Demandthat 1) All charges be dropped against all
the prisoners affected by this bogus investigation: 2) All
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ACTIVATE PRISON EMERGENCY RESPONSE
ON BEHALF OF INDIANA TEN POLITICAL PRISONER
JAMES MALONE, #913752

‘The Indiana Department of Corrections has continually taken retaliatory and
repressive actions against several defendants who were falsely accused in the protest
against the murder/execution of Ziyou Yisrayah [Tommy Smith] by the State of Indiana on
July 18, 1996.

James Malone, #913752, was taken out of general population at the Pendleton
Correctional Facility on July 2, 1998, under the pretext of investigation, under orders by
the investigative unit, without affording James Malone his due process rights and without
informing him of the specific charge for being placed on G.A.S. investigation

He kiad not been involved in any sort of rule infraction that would warrant this sort
26
The United States has a arger percentage of its population
in prison than any country on Earth. Over 1.7 million human
beings languish behing bars. Well over sixty percent of federal
prisoners, and 2 significant portion of state and locel prisoners,
are non-violent drug offenders, mostly first time offenders. Due
10 the War on Drugs. we have become the world' leading jailer.
1 out of 35 Americans is under the control of the Criminal Jus-
tice System. If present incarceration rates hold steady, 1 out of
20 Americans, I out of 11 men, and 1 out of 4 Black men in this
country today can expect o spend some partofther life inprison

Sources: Bureau ofJustice Saisics, Nation's Probation and Paole Pop-
lation Reached Almost 3.9 Million Lat ear, (pressrlease), Washington D.C.
US. Depanment of Justie (1997, August 14). Bonczar, TP & Beck, AJ.,

me Likelinood of Goig to Sate o Federal Prison, Washingon D.C-

Bureau of Jusice Sutisis, U.S. Deparument of Justice (19
- sutrng g

Alarming Facts In The War On Drugs

28

+ Every year, 8,000 10 14,000 people die from llegal drugs
in this country. Every year, over 500,000 peogle ie from legal
s (Tobacca, liquor and prescriptions). This s roughly ify
10 one ratio. Alcohol alone is involved in seven times more vic-
lent crimes than all illegal substances combined. Yet our Gov-
ernment continues to subsidize alcohol and tobacco, while de-
‘monizing those who would exercise a different choice.

Sources: Caifano, Joseph. Bebind Bars: Substance Abuse and Americs's
Prison Population, Forward by Joseph Calfano. The National Cenier on Ad-
dicon and Subscance Abuse at Columbia Universicy (1998).

+ It's been empirically shown that education and treatment
is seven times more cost effective than arrest and incarceration
for substance addiction, yet we continue to spend more tax dol-
lars on prisons than treatment.

‘Sources: Rydell, C.P. & Everingham. S.5., Controlling Cocaine, Pre

Legal News

2400 NW-80th Street #148 Seattle, WA 98117 (206) 781-6524
PLYis 2 28-page monthly magazine ecited by PLN offers extcemely affordable subscription aes:
Washingion sate pisoners Paul Wrightand DanPens. ~ S1/year for pisoners (S7.50 for six menths):
PLV'is funded almos S20/year for non-incarcerated individuals: and
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out the mercenaie. and deposed March 1997, demandingto b pi
the Prime Minister. the minimum wage. Ahough they

lostalgarion bate to auain this
> A one day general ke shutright, thir stike gained anention
down Haiti in January 1997, and suppont from several local
Strikers demanded the suspenson.Iabor nions.
of negotatons between the Prime

' Minister and the [ntemational Just- a5 the ~prisow/ndustrial

Monetary Fund/World Bank. They - complex i becoming incrasingly

- protested the austerity measures central to the growth of the US

imposed by the IMF and WB. economy, prisoners are 8 crcial

which would mean laying off pan of building effecive

7,000 government workers and the opposiion to the transnatonal
privtization of the electric and corporae agenda. Besause of their
telephone companies. enforced invisibility.

powerlessess, and ioltion, s
> In Nigeria, the Ogoni peaplefa too common fr prsoners o be
conducted a protracted eight year et ow of the equation of
stuggle against Shell Oil. Acid intemational ~ solidarty. Yet,
nin, and hundreds of ol spill and_ opposing the expansion o the

K
fumiture and work 40 hours 3
week for about $40 per month.
An American worker who once The Oregon Prison Indusres
upon 2 time made $8 an haur, produces a lne of “Prison Blues"
loses his job when the company blue jeans. An ad i their
relocates to Thailand where catlogue shows 2 handsome
workers are pad only $2 a day. prison inmate saying °I say we
Unemployed, and alienated from a should make bell-bottoms. They
saciety ndiffren 0 his neds, hesay v been in here (00 ong."
becomes involved in the drug
ccanomy or some other ouawed. Bizare, but true.
means of survival. He is aestd,
putin prison, and put to work. His Prisonindusties are ofen dirctly
new salary: 22 cetshour. competing with prvat industy.
Small fumiture manufacturers
From worker 10 unemployed o around the country complai that
criminal 1o convit laboer, the they are being driven out of
eyl bas come fulcircle. Andthebusiness by UNICOR, which pays
oaly victor is big business. 23 cents an hour and has the inside

PRISON LABOR

Inanushell,sructura adjustment spending and skyrockeing prison
tequires culs in social servies. - spending, Walk through any poor
privaization ofsate-un industy, urban neighborhood: school
epeal of agreemens with lbor sysiems are cumbling afer.
about working conditions and school programs. lbraries, parks
minimum wage! converson of and drug weaument centers are
multcuse farm lands into cash closed. But you will see more
ropagricubure forexpor. and the polce sations and more cops.
dismanting of trade laws which Often, the only “social serviee®
protect local economies. Under avalable o poor young people is
sructral adjustment, police and jail.

miltary expenditres ar the only

goverment spending that s The dismanting of social
encouraged. The sovereigny of programs, and the growing
natons is compromised when, &5 dominance of the rightwing
in the case of Viemam, vade agenda in US poltcs has been
sancions ae theatened uless the made posibe, a eat i par. by
government allows Camel the successfl repression of the
cioarettes to litter the countrvside civil riohte and Fhorsinr

z/
southem part of the country. The
drug trade, however (prodution,
transfe,and disribuion pints) is
all in the north. The drug war
money is being used primariy to
> fightagainst th Zapatisa ebes in
1 the southem stale of Chiapas who
¢ are demanding land refom and
economic policy changes which
are diametrically opposed 1o the
ransnational corporate agenda.

:
J

[n the Colombian jungls of
r Cartagena de Chaira, coca has
]
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|

: become the . only viable
commercial crop.[n 1996, 30000
famers locked roads andsirstrips
1o prevent crop spraying from

. aircraft. The Revolutonary Ammed

s Forces of Colombia (FARC) one

dispropatonat than their el
aestates. I i estimated that in
1994, on any given day. one out of
every 18 US adults was
incarcerated. while ane out of
every 17 Affcan-American adult
males was incarcerted,

The differental in setencing for
powder and crack cocaine s one
glaring eample of
institutonalized racism. - About
9% of erack amests are of
Afican-Americans, while 75% of
powder cocaine amests e of
whites. Under federallaw, i akes
only fve grams of cack cocaine 10
rigger @ five-year_ mandtory
minimum sentence. But it takes

THEE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMIPLEX
& THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

by Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans

Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in
the US. This represents the highest per capita
incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995
alone, 150 new U.S. prisons were built and filled.

This monumental commitment to lock up a sizeable
percéitage of the population is an integral part of the

globalization of capital. Several strands converge —
the end of the Cold War, changing relations between
labor and capital on an intemational scale, domestic
economic decline, racism, the U.S. role as policeman
of the world, and growth of the intemational drug
economy — creating a booming prison/industrial
complex. And the prison/industrial complex is
rapidly becoming an essential component of the U.S.
economy.

19
10.sociery can imagine incuding antisocial people withoat wanting
1o sacaize them in one vay ot ancther.

"o the question, “Whatis 1o be done with ihose whom society wil
not be able torecupere and wharm i therefore considecsthe lowest.
Kind of garbage?”, we think there s only one soluion: to stop
‘wanting 10 socialze people. What should torture b replaced with?
What should prisons be replaced with? What should trils be
eplaced wih? Wich nothing These three queions remain inter-
changeable, because all of them assume that what does not bend
must be broken. We completely efuse o ask ourseives, “How shall
we break people?” The oppasit of this, which we make our o,
consiss of asking ourselves, “How shall peope not bend?” In this
espect, delinquency concems us It inerests us n that it expresses
somethng iecupecsbl, nt in it forms, which nearly abvays bear
the imprint of the most appallng nommal social elation (sexism,
vilence, leadez worship, money worship, rc..).

As aboiionits, we have ther ambitions than maintining socal
systems of any type. We do not want slation; this goes wihout
saying, otherwise what would we be doing here? We want o think
with others about ways of iving with others outside pre-ecising
sstems.

To Ie tha anmrmrade thas o o

o1

know that we are imprisoncd inside walls of consrint. But we.
annat ake uf on our behalf any revol hat intends to eprocuc
socilrlatins in prison tht might sill e missing, for, conrary 1
2 widesread idea prison socalizes prisoners a5 much as it
(espectfor hierarchies, authorzed inds ofesure actviy, blackmal
t work,prvation and privaization of iner-individual reltonship,
etc.). Prison i not diseae of our scity at al her i noting
monstrous abou it it is the height of sociery, the height of al
socities, of all community organization of social relations. The
media the polie, the ustce system, bu also ecucaton, moraliyznd
ulture—everything aims to maintain the cohesiveness of the whole
by fore. Prson punishment is necesary for order and rder s
necessary for sociery. We could never imagine a socery without
order and oder without prison punshment. We have alnernaized
1his 50 well—einfrcing the bars nd guloines n our mins o the
point o going mad wich anguish because of t—that the Stte keeps
us under its thimb quite “naturaly,” because we are, in reality,
“imesponsible”. But the Sute is ony a machine serving someting
more terrifying than tel: behind the State there i a wil, 2 human
il Man i tere with hi laws. Down wich Man.

‘We are men who are in revolt against Man, That animal i a social

On the other hand, we n quice sccepe and hope that oy ¢
peran might count on peopl wh would asociic vilh il help 1L+
e esove aconlicsitation,provide his help s punctal,uriue
o dvidualzed, and this is why we misiruk al concliton
roceures, whieh vould jus be 3 futher insuoraizadon o
P onships. For we al especially suffr from 1ok bing 3ble o
e telwionships that are ot immediately reduced [0 sodd
‘machinery. ;

Contio are ot handied by these who experence them bu ¢
hroughso-called “bjective” egl proceures,whih el make
objects out of all of us. N

e o ot need tovent ou indignation f udgements on soce. .
ety some acions o behavio upset and scndalzeus butuce do §
o concder ourseles "rewarded forour troubles” by the cretionof -
achine tha s no more inteested in wha i paiculat about
giion than what s priiar bt te perpetrr oiion ofhs ]
o Jusic isdone i ourname ht i, i pacs ofus B 4
plmuumcnlwwmmmmurlumm
P e brough up wihou looking each prsn's uiqueness 1 e
oo murdert, vicim or judge, 1o one can put himsell i anothrs

ace.
place. o be done with criminals? is the very type -
Does the Abolition of Prison Mean 1S
the Abolition of Justice, Laws ang any kind
of Society? YES

AGAINST PRISONS

by Catherine Baker

This text is a talk which was given by Caherine Baker at the mogy couatries, eventually get out of jail.
{Abolonist Conres in Amsteréam inJune, 1965, Caherine Bake i

ing S .50t the place 0 anayze how we have arivec
has written several novels and is the author of two books. denouncing i

Sobguory seholing: rsounision 4 Meole obgaie (Bardy
1985, 18 Les cabicrs cu o (Bara, 1988, She e b o

o vring (o Cthrine Baker, 25 bou. de Belleil, 75011 Fus,
Frange)

ot

ur_environment from destruction,
1 1ife, as well as our air.

til these changes are

ch we Tive on this planet

is our future. It is to this
end that we build and advocate
repression and not compromise
ti1 A11 are FREE . . . None of
POLITICAL PRISONERS OF WAR COALITION
P. P. W C.

Theater of Operations. . . + « .michigan death kkkamps

INTRODUCTION

Revolutionary Greetings; Clenched-fist Salute & PoWEr Forward!!!

3
4 “varondrgs”. In December 1952.0% of hepople i

' druglfence ot hse convictedof ronrog fense who
thn e enre Federalprisn popultion 1580

1 the eord numbers of pople behind brs

ope s rogsat roughly the same e scording 35y
ron This fiure i 2 g s 2 e in Misoespolis.

% were Black o Hspanic and ane i o e ot Fad 0

e ofdug e in e S, ove et ey The
iy o wers i 9L Iaddibon e

st hitb i var. e h riors e Geerl Acout-
ol e et caly e any wesmen 1. ot

sher han eading 1 detroaion of commritesof pele.
v ough th et mafryof g ses ae whit. A
e, e mjory o hosearested for drug f e are Blck.
, worthabou 100, with 500 grans of powdered ccaine
Soften s chesperrackcocan,while whitedrug users

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wihout 0 much s bl of dssent, Alhough e Conit-
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rishnar, i orure chambers, b Tisk Force chose 1

rmation. Valoasefused o have anopendiscussion o

g ool it prcns,nd b would ot allow e o Tisk
3 pposed 1 the conol it o egse or dorument e

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WHY CONTROL UNITS EXIST: TO SUPRESS PRISONER DISSENT

e rm ol s it csioed a USP—and i Gty wee ockd down e
Marion isisn 1972 s come o dsigrate e prs o e nd nw s i
7o parol prson Evopeaeserd g seod i S B o
“Haperraivam securty” e “Bkdown e redacion vl Fly, v g
onditon”. Coneol s may il mech e cai at ot violent s preay
therinsomedeal, bt shre i defiingprisnen weve lanoutol e gl popls
fsnr om0 plcdin oo s, el of

3. Fsonersina conol it ae kgt il he et 14 whae wild
oy confnement i oy ol by ehtiet ot becce. rcre b e very e and
s for bewen 23 b ay. Thre - deigbred vilce. T, ot v
s cngreedining 10 ongogie xrce 10 o vl prscne 3 conol
vork pporaies, i o cngrepe s neesarly areot e e eve ol vioce s
s, e et contuly ecurge ind

2 Thee conditons et pemanenty e it v,
(emporary lockdowns et st evry
prsn)and asoffcal oy Aooter spec ey discusd by e metias

5. The conditns reaffcalyustbed bt mostl e rsones ncontol il be-
ot purisment o prscners b an it~ t e sge eherback it he el
e mesure. Proners el 23 ool pronpopubimor o iy koo bt
et eoughan o s e o ant conditons roduc g o et
tere e s goveing such e (1 ment, rge nd menlderrstin, Pioen
onast o i e i e deried il ave b deprivedof b ot
vy S A——
prsonerin contol unit

et oty cinement vas o most
oo dislayscion. el n s
epor e strenies by s saing bt
el ety vas s e snged ot -
vl semen, Repondens ' e ey
v s o 1o it ot
inelce’“bosk i gy ant s
sper“subrsof b sl v
elimprovers' o “vecaly opresin [ber].
cpio’ “waning e rad s harn
g or g oo o
cusie” The sy show, e, ata
ke e e i
i b o iy e v s
s by s o prn e, i
‘gt prseners o e o il e
eging b i e,

Inisadritd at heghesevl hata prise’s
polal belels re he basis for s bt
prsoner 02 contolusit. Ins e
Congresperon Kistenes, th then i of the
Conresioral swicommite
‘hatoversees the BOP, |

oo 3 e sty pisn.

are e corsant e ol il of the s, ey
Sone st Marion, comene, Noone blong 1 evirn
v s ez ' i o for e demdArd e

A coml v . and ey o tey have i ool an
< conrl frguenty, eier on aychologcal vl o 4 Py
s prisons v Layion,adds, “They 2y 1o &g p he

o ek o o, prson’s mind.”

fon o Conto st

Ravebeenspreacig acros th couniry t s slaring e
sates have cone ek prison o secions o prses bt erve
. Miny harn cighs proups havecondemne ool it
v rganzatn, Human Rght Vtch, waicndog oup,
TS prisons snd repornd thatthe Marinizssen- o precns
corsuted e g most distubingfeture of e US.

| Notsurprisngy, e prsones i these corios s i ven
rionately Back 5 s the gneralprison popelsse.

o e, M due o e eplace b 3 i
Fado Maron s oty bt 3. e it .
e ok ol e cen e
e whi s Do Of P (T Do,
ey Lre s oSt
e e amprerens apon e g
o prsnca Moo s oo by v e

(arion has, howere, served 13 purpose 3. ol o ol
i o s gt e Couny.

" From e Sepreme Coun
i jusks b

The S incaceracon e s hghet i he ok, g

7t mes h e i h Neterbnds: T

10 e ol on e s of Lo Al .
rtalesspcpleoclr o e US. T o

i inSout Ay
people i prsn

Sors pporsiniic- e sporsible. Th concusn, e, would bty
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