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Prisons

Currently the United States has 25% of the world's prison population despite only having 5% of the world's population. This totals to around 2.4 million people behind bars. Since the advent of the war on crime and mass incarceration in the 1970s, there has been a sustained movement to abolish the inhumane conditions and tortuous practices of the US prison industrial complex.

The Scope of this collection includes audio, video and a variety of paper materials all pertaining to prisons and the struggle against them. This is an extremely broad collection with a wealth of knowledge from many prison organizations, both inside and outside, active from c. 1970 to present. The collection can be widely organized in four major areas. The first is general information, narratives, statistics, etc about life in prison and America's carceral society. The second is prison newspapers, published by collaborations between prisoners and free supporters. The third is an extensive collection on prison activists and organizations. The fourth is a number of general sub-collections on some notable prisons and the struggles for self-determination and human rights that occurred and continue.


Date Range
1970-present

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Collection
    Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
    318
    Freedom Now
    62
    American Friends Service Committee
    55
    Attica Prison Rebellion
    31
    Control Units
    27

Media Type
    PDF
    700
    Audio
    30
    Video
    10
    Webpage
    8
    Image
    7

Source Format
    Correspondence
    122
    Periodical
    116
    Monograph
    106
    Flyer
    95
    Article
    80

Year
    1990
    65
    1989
    56
    1988
    47
    1993
    44
    1996
    42

Title
    Letter to Friends
    11
    Walkin' Steel
    6
    Break the Chains Newsletter
    6
    Off the Hook
    4
    Midnight Special Prisoners News
    3

Subject
    Prison
    322
    Political Prisoners
    106
    Resistance
    103
    Women
    65
    Human Rights
    56

Author
    Nancy Kurshan
    16
    Steve Whitman
    12
    Susan Rosenberg
    9
    Alan Berkman
    9
    Jan Susler
    8

Keyword
    control units
    58
    prison conditions
    54
    Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)
    52
    Marion Federal Penitentiary
    51
    women in prison
    32
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