Biography
Lawrence Epps was a prisoner at New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility who wrote a first-person account of the Close Supervision Unit protest in 1988–1989. His report describes restrictions on politically oriented prisoners and collective efforts to challenge the unit. It does not identify his underlying conviction or an individual transfer to isolation.
Lawrence Epps was a prisoner at New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility who wrote a first-person account of the Close Supervision Unit protest in 1988–1989. His report describes restrictions on politically oriented prisoners and collective efforts to challenge the unit. It does not identify his underlying conviction or an individual transfer to isolation. First-person account of restrictive political CSU confinement and prison protest; no individual isolation transfer, exact endpoints or completed custody total established.
