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.
Records
Found 2 records
Press Release: Women'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.
Women's Bail Fund Letter
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.