Records
A Report From Inside Attica
A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died
Attica Since the Massacre
Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.
CCPO — Press Release on Violence at San Quentin (August 24, 1971)
CCPO press release of August 24, 1971, responding to the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin three days earlier.
COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08
FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).
COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11
FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
Angela Davis's foundational essay collection on political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation.
On Trial: Angela Davis or America?
Booklet surrounding Angela Davis's imprisonment and trial, where she was convicted of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Includes an introduction by Ossie Davis, excerpts from two speeches--"I Bring An Indictment Against the American System" by Reverend Ralph Abernathy and "The Case Must be Dismissed" by Attorney John J. Abt--and an article, "In Defense of...
President to President: On the question of human rights
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...
Press Release: Women's Bail Fund
A press release issued by the Women's Bail Fund in response to hearings related to prisoner suicides in New York City jails. The press release refers to these deaths as murders and the prison system a murderer.
Prisoners Solidarity Committee No. 3
Why We Say... Tear the Prisons Down!; Attica ex-inmate Explains rebellion; Sharean of Auburn Six reveals Attica terror; more.
Remember Attica: Reconstruction, Reflection, Reaction [mp3]
Part V of the “Remember Attica” series. Responses of clergy, attorneys, doctors, congressmen and the prisoner’s relatives in the weeks following the rebellion. Lawyers were admitted on 9/17/71. A week later the National Lawyers Guild gave a press conference outside the prison. They concluded that Rockefeller, and prison officials (Oswald, Mancusi and Vincent...
The Outlaw [Vol. 1-1, Nov 1971]
First issue of the Outlaw, Journal of the Prisoners Union. Includes a section on Students for Prison Change out of SFSU; Poetry; information about the Prisoners' Union Guerrilla Theater Company, and more.
The Outlaw [Vol. 1-2]
Editorial on Prison Reform. Articles on the significance of unity, facts about women prisoners, poetry, the case of Joseph Romero, and more.
U.S. Prisons: 1971 (From Behind the Walls of Auburn Concentration Camp)
from behind the walls of auburn concentration camp Prisoners Call Out: Freedom. This special issue on prisons was written for the Activist by Buffalo Youth Against War & Fascism and the Prisoner Solidarity Committee. The rich get richer - - the poor go to jail; Racism, Repression - - tools of the bosses; Auburn Prison Slavery in US; Crimes of Survival; Domes...
Women's Bail Fund Letter
This letter requests support for the Women's Bail Fund and women detained at the Women's House of Detention. It indicates a new location of the Women's House of Detention at Riker's Island and describes conditions of isolation and forced labor at Riker's. It also provides some examples of prisoner's organizing and building power inside.