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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 3,254 records

Ain't Nothing Changed!!! — Ruchell Magee (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1975 AuthorsRuchell Cinque Magee PublishersEugene Coalition / Liberation Support Movement

1975 pamphlet by Ruchell Cinque Magee — sole surviving defendant of the August 7, 1970 Marin County courthouse incident — examining the U.S. court system and the conspiracy surrounding his case. Distributed by the Eugene Coalition and the Liberation Support Movement.

Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

Alabama Prisoner Struggle Zine (TFSR)

CollectionThe Final Straw Radio Year2022 PublishersFinal Straw Radio

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

Alabama's Atticas — Inmates for Action Statement (Atmore-Holman)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1974 AuthorsInmates for Action; Atmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee PublishersAtmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee

Inmates for Action / Atmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee statement critiquing the Alabama prison system and the state repression that followed the 1974 Atmore-Holman prison rebellions and the killing of guards at the Atmore (G.K. Fountain) facility. A companion document to the Pontiac Brothers and Attica Brothers organizing of the same period.

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 on Puerto Rican Independence [mp3]

CollectionPuerto Rican Prisoners PublishersFreedom Archives

Alejandrina Torres speaks about Puerto Rican independence and US repression of their national liberation struggle. Taken from CD 800.

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.

Alex Stokes support pamphlet (NYC ABCF, February 2026)

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

Tri-fold support pamphlet for antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes (Contompasis), for distribution and letter-writing campaigns.

Alex Stokes tri-fold pamphlet (NYC ABCF, September 2023)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateSeptember 1, 2023 AuthorsNYC Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes (Contompasis).

All Out to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal!

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1995 AuthorsPartisan Defense Committee PublishersPartisan Defense Committee

Mumia Abu-Jamal death-penalty defense pamphlet published during the 1995 execution-date emergency campaign.

Allegations of Ill-Treatment in Marion Prison, Illinois (Amnesty International, May 1987)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 1, 1987 PublishersAmnesty International

May 1987 Amnesty International report documenting allegations of guard mistreatment of prisoners at USP Marion (the federal Control Unit), with correspondence chain regarding requests for an official investigation.

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.

Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli) poster

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateJune 16, 2021 AuthorsSacramento Prisoner Support / ABCF PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

Printable poster featuring Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli).

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 International Report 1978 (excerpt)

CollectionReports DateDecember 1, 1978 PublishersAmnesty International

Excerpt of Amnesty International's annual report covering July 1977 – June 1978 (POL 10/01/1978), including the United States section: the organization's work on the Charlotte Three (James Earl Grant, Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy), its adoption of the Wilmington Ten as Prisoners of Conscience and the campaign for their pardon, trial observation for Leonard Pel...

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 Abbreviated DIY Guide to Making a Jail Support Plan

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsAnonymous PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Practical guide for organizing jail support after mass arrests.

An Activist's Guide to Basic First Aid

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsBlack Cross Health Collective PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Black Cross Health Collective primer on first aid for street medics and activists.

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 Unprecedented Case

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2018 AuthorsLi2 PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Li2 essay on an unprecedented federal case and its implications for movements.

An Unpublished letter

CollectionDhoruba Bin Wahad DateAugust 28, 1989 PublishersFreedom Archives

Unpublished letter to the editor of the New York Times in which Dhoruba critiques an inaccurate editorial published earlier in the NYTimes.