Records
California Prisons — Prisoners Take Prisons to Court (1974)
August 5, 1974 Pacific News Service report on a prisoners' legal suit against the California prison system over conditions in San Quentin's Adjustment Center, filed in the wake of the killing of George Jackson.
Extra! Prisoners in Revolt! — Soledad Brothers Defense Committee
Soledad Brothers Defense Committee broadside covering the Folsom Prison strike demands, the Soledad 7 case, and prisoners' calls for racial unity inside California's prisons.
George Jackson — Death of a Black Revolutionary (The Guardian)
Guardian newspaper feature on George Jackson's killing at San Quentin, examining the official narrative and the prisoner movement's response.
Right On! Black Community News Service — Vol. 2 No. 9 (May 1974)
Issue of Right On!, the Black Community News Service of the East Coast Black Panther Party — the paper of the faction aligned with Eldridge Cleaver after the Party's 1971 split, closely tied to the Black Liberation Army's prisoner-support networks. This issue carries the Symbionese Liberation Army's "The S.L.A. Speaks to the People," continued coverage of th...
The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service — Vol. XII No. 3 (August 10, 1974)
Issue of The Black Panther published weeks before Huey P. Newton's flight to Cuba, led by Elaine Brown's press statement — "They are trying to kill Huey P. Newton" — on the Fox nightclub arrests of Newton and seven other Party members. Also carries part 3 of the parole interview with Wesley Robert "Bob" Wells after 47 years in California prisons, the Atmore-...
The Shame of America — Psychological Torture U.S. Style: The Case of Alejandrina and Susan (1986)
Bilingual (English/Spanish) newsprint article on the cases of political prisoners Alejandrina Torres (FALN) and Susan Rosenberg, documenting conditions of psychological torture in U.S. federal prisons (Lexington High Security Unit).
The Soledad Brothers — Berkeley Tribe Centerfold (July 1970)
July 1970 Berkeley Tribe pullout / centerfold on the Soledad Brothers case — George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette, charged with the January 1970 retaliatory killing of Soledad State Prison guard John Mills after Mills' colleagues had shot and killed three Black prisoners (Nolen, Edwards, Miller) in the prison yard a few days earlier.