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
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...