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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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1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateSeptember 15, 1990 AuthorsDaniel Berrigan; Margaret Randall; Rafael Cancel Miranda PublishersSpecial International Tribunal Organizing Committee

September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...

A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978

CollectionNational Lawyers Guild DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report

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...

Communication on Human Rights On Behalf of Prisoners Held in the United States (1972)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1972 AuthorsGeorgia Jackson; National Conference of Black Lawyers PublishersNational Conference of Black Lawyers

1972 petition to the United Nations from Georgia Jackson (mother of George and Jonathan Jackson) and the National Conference of Black Lawyers documenting human-rights violations against incarcerated people in the wake of George Jackson's killing.

Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations

CollectionControl Units DateNovember 15, 1988 PublishersHealth Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control Unit

Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates P...

End the Nationawide Lockdown

CollectionControl Units PublishersFreedom Archives

A Call to All Those Concerned About Peace, Justice and Human Rights. Includes an original graphic.

For Release AM Newspapers November 14, 1991

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1991 PublishersHuman Rights Watch.

Outlines history of Marion and intentions for Florence, CO. Part of packet (enclosure 3)

Free Our Sisters in the Rikers Concentration Camp

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersThe Women's Bail Fund

This flyer includes a statement in solidarity with the prison rebellion at Attica and the sympathy demonstration by women at Alderson prison. It lists the human rights abuses that take place at Rikers Island and charges Rockefeller for crimes committed against Black and brown populations, as well as the poor.

Free the SF 8 — Black Elders Charged in 37-Year-Old Case

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersCommittee for the Defense of Human Rights

Trifold brochure profiling the SF8 defendants and the 1971 case being revived against them, promoting the Legacy of Torture documentary.

Freedom for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) PublishersProLibertad

Pamphlet on the campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war. 2nd copy incomplete. Includes: What is ProLibertad?; Who Are the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War?; Puerto Rico's colonial case; Arrests; Punitive Sentences; Human Rights violations. Includes call to action.

Human Rights Group Rips Marion Prison

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersChicago Sun-Times

Reproduction from 5/31/1987 article on Amnesty International's report, "Allegations of Ill-treatment at Marion Prison".

Human Rights Violations and Landrights of Native American Nations in the USA: The Case of the Western Shoshone

Collection1992 Tribunal PublishersAmerican Indian Movement

Sections: I. Legal Foundations II. The Indian Claims Commission III. The case "Damn vs USA" IV. The Bureau of Land Management V. Extinguishment of Western Shoshone Treaty Rights VI. Hr 3897 - the "Vucanovich Bill" VII. The present situation: the impoundment of livestock VIII. Western Shoshone Complaint for Genocide IX. The Western Shoshone's quest for a fair...

Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

International Human Rights Law on Solitary Confinement (HRF 2015)

CollectionPrison Legal News / HRDC Year2015 PublishersHuman Rights First via PLN

Legal analysis of solitary under international human rights law.

LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-V - May 1988

CollectionLibertad DateMay 1, 1988 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: The Task Before Us; Criminal Negligence and Human Rights; A Farewell to a Patriot; Capture of the Eleven Commemorated; I am Buried in Prison with You: Alejandrina.

LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-X - October 1986

CollectionLibertad DateOctober 1, 1986 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: Felix Rosa- The Unbreakable Will of a Patriot; US Government Intensifies Counter-Insurgency Campaign Against Independence Movement; POW Luis Rosa under 24 hour Lockdown; Luis Lausell Imprisoned for Income Tax Protest; Successful Latin American Encounter Against Repression and For Human Rights; News on the Puerto Rico Independence 16; August 30th Co...

Letter on Human Rights Violations from prisoners in Lucasville, OH

CollectionLucasville/Skatzes PublishersFreedom Archives

Summary of a document entitled "COMPLAINT Regarding Human Rights Violations at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility" filed to Amnesty International by prisoners incarcerated in the Administrative Control Unit in at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH.

Libertad - July 1988

CollectionLibertad DateJuly 1, 1988 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

In this issue, a message from the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriquena (MLN-PR) announces the release of national hero William Guillermo Morales from the Mexican government; a message prepared for a mobilization to Lexington Prison in protest of the control units demands respect for the human rights of prisoners Alejandrina Torres and Silvia Bara...

Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

Morton Sobell--Human Rights Activist--To Visit Chicago

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

6/1/1987 Announcement of Morton Sobell speaking engagement

Oppose Racist Violence!

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

An update on the Klan and Nazi racist activity, attacks, and murders against in and around Chicago. It's stated that the way to stop the Klan and Nazis is not to ignore them but to show the Klan that they, JBAKC members and those who oppose racism in any form, they will not tolerate their presence in their neighborhoods and schools and will not tolerate the...

Palestine Political Prisoners Booklet

CollectionFreedom Archives Year2016 AuthorsAddameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Bilingual (Arabic/English) Palestinian political-prisoner organizing handbook produced by Addameer.

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

RCC — Greetings of Solidarity (September 30, 1989)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateSeptember 30, 1989 PublishersEmergency Committee for Human Rights for Political Prisoners

Letter from RCC defendants petitioning for help reprinting and distributing their Open Letter to the Progressive Community.

Solidarity, Support, Justice — Standing with the SF8

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersCommittee for the Defense of Human Rights

SF8 solidarity pamphlet featuring statements from Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and remarks from Jalil Muntaqim and Herman Bell.