Records
Women's Control Unit: Marianna, FL
Fall 1992 article: "This paper was written to break with the secrecy and silence on Shawnee Unit; to recognize women as equal participants in the struggle to shut down all control units; and to be responsible to ongoing political struggle."
Youth Institute on Prisons, Racism and Society
Sponsored by the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons, participants develop an understanding of crime, prisons, and racisms through readings, discussions and presentations as well as gain the skills necessary to organize and participate in campaigns to change the current criminal justice system.
[Graphic: Control Unit]
Reproduction. A lot of the Prisoners cant cope with the constant lockdown. They deteriorate mentally.- Ojore N. Lutalo
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.