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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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A Report From Inside Attica

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 17, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Solidarity Committee

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

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

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.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

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

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

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.

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

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

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund DateAugust 31, 1971 PublishersWomen'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

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateNovember 3, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Why We Say... Tear the Prisons Down!; Attica ex-inmate Explains rebellion; Sharean of Auburn Six reveals Attica terror; more.

The Outlaw [Vol. 1-1, Nov 1971]

CollectionThe Outlaw DateNovember 1, 1971 PublishersThe Prisoners Union

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]

CollectionThe Outlaw DateDecember 1, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Union

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)

CollectionPrison - Newspapers Year1971 PublishersThe Activist

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

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund DateDecember 1, 1971 PublishersWomen's Bail Fund

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.