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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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Found 838 records

Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)

CollectionU.S. Supreme Court — PP Cases Year1919 PublishersU.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act convictions of Russian-Jewish anarchists for anti-intervention leaflets; Holmes's 'marketplace of ideas' dissent.

Action Proposal from the Committee to End the Mation Lockdown

CollectionNational Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons DateJanuary 1, 1995 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Regarding action component of the national campaign.

Afro-American Dignity News

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateNovember 2, 1964 PublishersAfro-American Association

Local Oakland African-American newspaper. Cover story: integration success without violence.

Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Year1988 AuthorsWard Churchill and Jim Vander Wall PublishersSouth End Press / Internet Archive

Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's documentary history of FBI operations against the BPP and AIM. Primary published synthesis of COINTELPRO targeting of Peltier, Pratt, the Panther 21, and Wounded Knee defendants.

Aids in Prison: A forum for Education and Action

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1988 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Flyer for educational event on Aids in the prison environment. Includes list of events.

Alabama Prisoner Struggle Zine (TFSR)

CollectionThe Final Straw Radio Year2022 PublishersFinal Straw Radio

Zine on Alabama prison strike and inside organizers (FAM / Unheard Voices).

Alberto Rodriguez Parole Committee

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) PublishersAlberto Rodriguez Parole Committee

Alderson Attica Demands

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet includes a list of twenty-eight demands issued by prisoners at Attica State Prison in New York in May, 1971, and 42 demands issued by women prisoners at Alderson Federal Prison, which were presented during a four day sit-in in solidarity with Attica prisoners during the week of September 14, 1971. Many of these demands refer to basic rights suc...

Alejandrina Torres: A Profile of a Puerto Rican Prisoner of War

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersFree Puerto Rico Committee

Biography and account of inhumane treatment at the hands of the US prison system.

Alternative Legal Systems -- China

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This article provides analysis of how the prison system, judicial system, and law enforcement operate in socialist China, in order to better understand potential alternatives to the current criminal justice system in the US.

America bars Cuban Prison Experts

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1988 PublishersThe Plain Dealer

Reproduction of 6/25/1988 article on US State Department's denial of visas to a delegation of Cubans requesting visits in American prisons.

Amiri Baraka introduces Wild Poppies

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Poet, playwright, essayist, teacher and activist Amiri Baraka introduces the audio compendium of poetry, "Wild Poppies", and describes Marilyn Buck's struggle against imperialism with metaphor.

Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1921 PublishersU.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (66th Cong.)

Full transcript of 1921 hearings on amnesty for WWI-era Espionage Act prisoners; testimony from defense committees, Debs supporters, IWW counsel.

Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice (Alternate Edition)

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1920 PublishersU.S. Senate

Companion edition of S. Doc. 224 — printed list of post-armistice federal political prisoners.

Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice — S. Doc. 224

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1920 PublishersU.S. Senate / Woodrow Wilson administration

Wilson's Justice Department reply to the Senate listing every Espionage / Selective Service Act prisoner still confined after the armistice, with names, sentences, and prisons.

An Undying Love Flyer

CollectionEldridge Cleaver DateMay 31, 1969 PublishersFreedom Archives

Flyer: "release Eldridge Cleaver rally," at Parole Office in San Francisco, with Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, and Kathleen Cleaver.

An Updated Public Report about the Continuing Lockdown and Torture of the Prisoners at U.S. Penitentiary, Marion

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1984 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

3/26/1984 update on conditions of the Marion Lockdown. Accounts of food tampering, abuse, neglect, isolation and cancel of rehabilitation programs included.

Anarchist Black Dragon: Washington State Penitentiary

CollectionPrison - Newspapers PublishersAnarchist Black Dragon Collective

Editorial about sexism and racism in prison; Coverage of August 10th rebellion at Walla Walla State Prison, letter from Carl Harp about early May actions at Walla Walla; press release issued after rebellion, Sex in Prison; Woman Prison Activist Raped by Guard; News on SLA appeal; more.

And Why Was He Our Shining Black Prince: Selected Quotes From Malcolm X

CollectionMalcolm X DateJanuary 1, 1997 PublishersNation Time

Excerpt from Nation Time. Selected quotes from Malcolm X.

Angel Espinosa-Villegas ICE Detention Zine (TFSR)

CollectionThe Final Straw Radio Year2025 PublishersFinal Straw Radio

Zine on ICE detention case of Angel Espinosa-Villegas.

Angel Rodriguez Cristobal Commando communique

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateDecember 31, 1982 PublishersFALN

Communique taking responsibility for coordinated attacks against US agencies of repression.

Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersThe Women's Bail Fund

Flyer with handwritten title announcing Angela Davis' release from prison while demanding the same for Ruchell Magee. Three typed paragraphs about Ruchell, Angela's codefendent, whose trial for murder-kidnap-consipiracy is to begin on August 1. Magee was the only person to survive the attempt to escape from the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, which was led...

Appeal from Notice of Action to the National Appeals Board

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateJanuary 1, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

Appeal to the United States Parole Commission, United States Department of Justice Regarding unjust denial of parole to Carlos Alberto Torres

Article - Lexington Appeal Decision and Women Political Prisoners

CollectionOut of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners PublishersFreedom Archives

Includes handwritten notes by Jane Segal. Virtual holding only.

Attention Workingmen! Great Mass Meeting Tonight at the Haymarket (English Broadside)

DateMay 4, 1886 PublishersAugust Spies / Chicago anarchist movement

Original 4 May 1886 Haymarket meeting handbill introduced as the state's evidence in the 1886 anarchist trial.