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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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Bato Talamantez on Pelican Bay Prison [mp3]

CollectionPelican Bay DateNovember 25, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison and the development of political consciousness. Interviewer then reads a poem about prison and its hellish conditions.

Gangs in California State Prisons [mp3]

CollectionPelican Bay PublishersFreedom Archives

CONTINUED FROM PM 220: Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell continue their discussion of the conditions within the Pelican Bay Prison. Weinstein and Campbell elaborate on the relationships between different prison groups, guard torture and brutality, and the economic condition and opinions of the communities surrounding Pelican Bay Prison.

Pelican Bay Information Project [mp3]

CollectionPelican Bay PublishersFreedom Archives

Catherine Campbell on her work as part of the Pelican Bay Information Project.

Pelican Bay Prison

CollectionPelican Bay DateNovember 25, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison. Prisoners describe how the prison prevents them from receiving pictures from home. The prison also prohibits having books, because they can be used as weapons. Also mentioned was the lack of health services and the difficulty of obtaining medications.

Pelican Bay Prisoners

CollectionPelican Bay DateJanuary 15, 1996 PublishersFreedom Archives

Corey Weinstein and Leslie DiBenedetto discuss the Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) and its efforts to end prisoner abuse. Also includes an interview with a prisoner who speaks about prisoner resistance, human rights and conditions.

Pelican Bay Prisoners [mp3]

CollectionPelican Bay DateJanuary 15, 1996 PublishersFreedom Archives

Corey Weinstein and Leslie DiBenedetto discuss the Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) and its efforts to end prisoner abuse. Also includes an interview with a prisoner who speaks about prisoner resistance, human rights and conditions.

Pelican Bay Program (1 of 2)

CollectionPelican Bay DateOctober 1, 1991 PublishersFreedom Archives

Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell discuss their trip to Pelican Bay Prison in Northern California as part of a legal delegation affiliated with the Real Dragon Prison Project. Included are descriptions of Control Units and the infamous "SHU de-briefing” techniques, as well as the prison system’s use of informants and the effects of the psychological tor...

Pelican Bay Program (2 of 2)

CollectionPelican Bay DateOctober 1, 1991 PublishersFreedom Archives

CONTINUED FROM PM 220: Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell continue their discussion of the conditions within the Pelican Bay Prison. Weinstein and Campbell elaborate on the relationships between different prison groups, guard torture and brutality, and the economic condition and opinions of the communities surrounding Pelican Bay Prison.