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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 2,513 records

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.

An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Sundiata Acoli's updated history of the New Afrikan prison struggle, tracing Black political prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.

An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2000 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Sundiata Acoli (BLA, MOVE-era political prisoner) updates his foundational history of New Afrikan prison resistance.

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.

Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Knowledge

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsHybachi LeMar PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Imprisoned organizer Hybachi LeMar on Kemetic spirituality and anarchism.

Anarchism and Litigation

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsEric D. Smith PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Eric D. Smith on the contradictions between anarchist principles and the use of litigation.

Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter — Summer 2003

Year2003 AuthorsAnarchist Black Cross Network PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Network

Summer 2003 newsletter of the Anarchist Black Cross Network, scanned from the Freedom Archives' Anarchist Black Cross scan set. Inter-chapter news, prisoner updates, and ABC organizing notes.

Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsChicago ABC PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Overview of the Anarchist Black Cross prisoner-support network.

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.