Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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What is a Political Prisoner? / Definition of Political Prisoners and Control Units
Out of Control program defining the term "political prisoner" and discussing the U.S. control-unit prison system that disproportionately holds political prisoners and prisoners of war. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
NPR Report on the Lexington Control Unit
NPR radio report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Women's High Security Unit at Lexington, Kentucky — the underground control unit Amnesty International condemned as violating UN minimum rules and that was eventually closed in 1988 after sustained national and international human-rights pressure. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.