Records
Wimmin Prisoners Survival Network — No. 2, Winter 1988/89
Second issue of the Wimmin Prisoners Survival Network newsletter (Winter 1988/89). One of the most consistent late-1980s vehicles for women political-prisoner and prisoner-of-war support work in the United States, in close political alignment with the PFOC prisoner-support tradition and the campaign against the Lexington High Security Unit (the federal contr...
The Case of Silvia Baraldini
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners audio program on Italian anti-imperialist political prisoner Silvia Baraldini, held in the U.S. from 1982 to 1999 (including in the notorious Lexington High Security Unit) before her transfer to Italy. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
NPR Report on the Lexington Control Unit
NPR radio report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Women's High Security Unit at Lexington, Kentucky — the underground control unit Amnesty International condemned as violating UN minimum rules and that was eventually closed in 1988 after sustained national and international human-rights pressure. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
Interview with Susan Rosenberg about Conditions in Lexington Control Unit
Interview with anti-imperialist political prisoner Susan Rosenberg on conditions in the Lexington Women's High Security Unit, where she was held from 1986 to 1988. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
1987 interviews with the women held at the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit — Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, and Alejandrina Torres — documenting the underground control unit's sensory deprivation, 23-hour cell time, strip searches by male guards, and other conditions condemned by Amnesty International. Sourced from search.freedoma...