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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Bato Talamantez on Pelican Bay Prison [mp3]
About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison and the development of political consciousness. Interviewer then reads a poem about prison and its hellish conditions.
Pelican Bay Prison
About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison. Prisoners describe how the prison prevents them from receiving pictures from home. The prison also prohibits having books, because they can be used as weapons. Also mentioned was the lack of health services and the difficulty of obtaining medications.