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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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There Are Women Political Prisoners in U.S. — Shut Down the Lexington Women's Control Unit

DateDecember 1, 1986 AuthorsCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown / Lexington HSU support coalition

Single-page organizing flyer issued in 1986-87 demanding the closure of the Lexington High Security Unit (HSU), a basement control unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Kentucky opened in October 1986 specifically to hold women political prisoners under conditions of sensory deprivation. The flyer profiles the three women then incarcerat...

Wimmin Prisoners Survival Network — No. 2, Winter 1988/89

DateDecember 1, 1988 AuthorsWimmin Prisoners Survival Network PublishersWimmin Prisoners Survival Network

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...