Author(s): Ward Churchill; J.J. Vander Wall
Publisher: Maisonneuve Press
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 434
City: Washington, D.C.
The Third World at Home: Political Prisons and Prisoners in the United States / Ward Churchill
Americans Behind Bars: A Comparison of International Rates of Incarceration / Marc Mauer
The U.S. Prison at Marion, Illinois: An Instrument of Oppression / Bill Dunne
Solitude as Counterinsurgency: The U.S. Isolation Model of Political Incarceration / Mike Ryan
BoP Overseer: A Glimpse of J. Michael Quinlin / Fukoka Sano
Portrait of a U.S. Political Prison: The Lexington High Security Unit for Women / Mary O'Melveny
Excerpts from A Report on the Effects of Confinement in the Lexington High Security Unit / Richard Korn
Reflections on Being Buried Alive / Susan Rosenberg
From Alcatraz to Marion to Florence: Control Unit Prisons in the United States / Fay Dowker and Glenn Good
Prisoners of War: The Legal Standing of Members of National Liberation Movements / Mutulu Shakur, Marilyn Buck, Geronimo Pratt, Albert Washington, Sekou Odinga, Cecilio Chui Ferguson El, Susan Rosenberg, David Gilbert
Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson / Karen Wald, Ward Churchill
The Ghost of Nat Turner Cries Out in Me / Daoud Ahmed
Thoughts on Class, Race, and Prison / Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk
Prisons, Poverty, and Power / Standing Deer
New African Prisoner of War Speaks / Albert "Nuh" Washington
A Person Who Struggles for Liberation: An Interview with Geronimo Pratt / Ward Churchill
New Afrikan Prisoner of War Speaks / Sekou Odinga
The Struggle Continues: An Interview with Dhoruba al-Mujahid Bin Wahad / Dan Debo
Self-Portrait of a Black Liberationist: An Appraisal of Assata Shakur's Autobiography / M. Annette Jaimes
A Warrior Caged: The Continuing Struggle of Leonard Peltier / Jim Vander Wall
Statement to the Canadian Court, May 13, 1976 / Leonard Peltier
Refuge / Bob Robideau
Wages of COINTELPRO: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal / Ward Churchill
The RICO Act and Political Targets: Statement to the Jury, January 10, 1989 / Ray Luc Levasseur
The Death Penalty and the Supreme Court: A Case-Study in "American Democracy" / Jennie Vander Wall
Death Wing Days / Ches-ne-o-nah-eh
The New Death Row: Official Abuse of Prisoners with AIDS / Heather Rhoads
"Your Honor" / Kuwasi Balagoon
The Struggle for AIDS Education in Prison / David Gilbert
Women and Imprisonment in the U.S.: History and Current Reality / Nancy Kurshan
Telling Someone / Susan Saxe
Thoughts on "Telling Someone" / Jennie Vander Wall
Preventive Detention: A Prevention of Human Rights? / Laura Whitehorn
Our Kids: The New Revolutionaries / Richard Marquantte
Political Prisoners in the United States
The Puerto Rican Charade / Julio Rosado
Puertorriqueño Political Prisoner Speaks / Nelson Ramirez
To Free a Homeland: An Interview with Puertorriqueña POW Alicia Rodríguez / Free Puerto Rico Committee
Puertorriqueño Political Prisoner Speaks / Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
Puertorriqueña Political Prisoner Speaks / Lucy Berríos Berríos
Puertorriqueña Political Prisoner Speaks / Carmin Valentin
New Jersey Prisoners Under Attack / Jim Campbell
Excerpts from The Verdict of the International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States
Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States: Current Whereabouts
Sources of Additional Information
About the Contributors
Index
