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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 377 records

Black/Inside: Prisoners Writing about Incarceration

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Authorscurated by Mariame Kaba PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Anthology of Black incarcerated voices curated by Mariame Kaba.

Blackstone Rangers: U.S. Experiment Using "Gangs" to Repress Black Community Rebellion

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJ. Sakai PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

J. Sakai on COINTELPRO's use of Chicago gangs against the Panthers.

Blood in My Eye

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsGeorge Jackson PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

George Jackson's foundational revolutionary text written from California prison.

Bound Struggles: Voices of Women in Prison

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsChicago Books to Women in Prison PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Testimonies from women incarcerated in Illinois.

Bounty Hunters and Child Predators: Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsCrimethinc PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Crimethinc analysis of federal entrapment and informant tactics.

Break De Chains — National Committee for Defense of Chesimard & Squire (1973)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1973 PublishersNational Committee for the Defense of Jo Anne Chesimard and Clark Squire

Defense-committee pamphlet collecting messages and statements from imprisoned Black Liberation Army members, produced in support of Assata Shakur (Jo Anne Chesimard) and Clark Squire (later Sundiata Acoli).

Buried Alive in the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1989)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1989 PublishersNational Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit

Campaign pamphlet documenting conditions endured by women political prisoners held at the Lexington High Security Unit in Kentucky.

CCPO Info Pamphlet

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersCoordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations

Informational pamphlet from the CCPO, a California umbrella for prisoner organizations active in the 1970s.

CCPO and BAPC — Call to the Convention (December 1972)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateDecember 2, 1972 PublishersCoordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations

Pamphlet announcing the December 2-3, 1972 Bay Area Prison Convention organized by the Coordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations, with registration details and agenda.

COINTELPRO — Educator Pamphlet

CollectionFreedom Archives PublishersFreedom Archives

Long-form COINTELPRO history and methods scan distributed for educational use.

California's Dirty Little Secret

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsKenneth Gay PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Kenneth Gay's exposé on California's death row and state prisons.

Cameras Everywhere Safety Nowhere

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsCrimethinc PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Crimethinc critique of surveillance culture and its impact on public safety and movement security.

Campaign to Free Jose Luis Avina (2001)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year2001 PublishersCampaign to Free Jose Luis Avina

2001 campaign packet compiling materials from multiple sources in support of Chicano political prisoner Jose Luis Avina.

Casey Goonan support pamphlet (NYC ABCF, February 2026)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateFebruary 1, 2026 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for political prisoner Casey Goonan.

Casey Goonan tri-fold pamphlet (NYC ABCF, October 2025)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateOctober 1, 2025 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for Casey Goonan.

Celling Black Bodies

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJulia Sudbury PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Julia Sudbury on the carceral state and women of color.

Central America Activists — Support the Resistance Conspiracy Case

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case support committee

Pamphlet linking the prosecution of RCC defendants to U.S. policy in Central America and asking Central America solidarity activists for support.

Chicano Political Prisoners — Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez & Alberto Aranda (Dec 7, 1990 Tribunal)

DateDecember 7, 1990 AuthorsAlvaro Hernandez; Alberto Aranda; Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez and Alberto Aranda PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano

Submission of the Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez and Alberto Aranda (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano) to the December 7, 1990 Special International Tribunal on U.S. political prisoners, held on International Human Rights Day. Documents the cases of two Chicano political prisoners held in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Alvaro Hernand...

Circumventing Prison Tech Censorship

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsMidwest Books to Prisoners PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Counter-censorship strategies for prisoners and supporters.

Civic-Religious Committee In Support of the Puerto Rican POWs

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersCivic-Religious Committee in Support of the Puerto Rican POWs

Pamphlet on the colonial status of Puerto Rico, the basis for the FALN 11 prisoners' POW claims, and grand-jury repression in the independentista movement.

Collective Action Behind Bars: A History of Jail Solidarity

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2016 AuthorsKris Hermes PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Kris Hermes on the history of jail-solidarity tactics in U.S. movements.

Collective Process

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsCommon Wheel Collective PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Common Wheel Collective's guide to running collective decision-making processes.

Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year1981 AuthorsSafiya Bukhari PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

BPP member Safiya Bukhari's memoir of her radicalization and imprisonment.

Comité de California Contra La Represión

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression PublishersComité de California Contra La Represión

Pamphlet with a short history of the Comité de California Contra la Represión and its principles of unity under the slogan 'Repression Breeds Resistance.'

Committee for Prisoner Support in Birmingham (Atmore-Holman)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersCommittee for Prisoner Support in Birmingham

Information pamphlet outlining the purpose and activities of the Committee for Prisoner Support in Birmingham, organizing for the Atmore-Holman Brothers in Alabama.