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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A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
A defendant support handbook from the Tilted Scales Collective written by experienced legal-support activists. The guide draws on the wisdom of dozens of people who have weathered trials and incarceration in political cases — covering pretrial decisions, plea negotiations, cooperation pressure, mental and physical health under indictment, family and communit...
How to Survive a Felony Trial
First-person practical guide to navigating a felony prosecution as a political defendant. Used widely across political-prisoner support networks as a pre-prison briefing for new defendants.
Load Every Rift With Ore: Critical Reflections on the J20 Trial and Support Campaign
40-page critical retrospective on what the J20 support campaign got right and wrong — lessons-learned document for future political-prisoner support campaigns.