Political Prisoners: Racism and the Politics of Imprisonment

National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice · 1980 · A.L. Nellum & Associates, Inc. (for U.S. Department of Justice, LEAA)

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41-page report issued in August 1980 by the National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice (NMAC). Notable as a federally-funded document — produced under contract J-LEAA-009-79 with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice — that took the existence of political prisoners in the United States seriously. The report defines three categories: "minorities as political prisoners," "politicized prisoners," and "race and class prisoners," and argues that racism in the American criminal-legal system produces political prisoners as a structural phenomenon. Includes a selected bibliography and the NMAC membership roster. Submitted to NCJRS as document 76108.