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Prison Organizing against Cruel Women’s Conditions
by Stephanie Green Great Speckled Bird page 1 1751560_19750710_0013 (1) page 2 Source: Great Speckled Bird, Vol 8, Issue 28, July 10, 1975 My primary source [1] describes a 1975 peaceful protest to eventual riot outside of North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women. This prison is the only women’s prison in North Carolina and held […]
The Rise of Prisoners’ Unions in the 20th Century
by Chirag Bellani Image: “Support Jackson Prisoners’ Self-Determination Union!!”[1] The 1970s was a period in which prisoners demanded better treatment and sought, through a series of strikes and movements across the country, access to their civil and judicial rights. As Dan Berger writes in his book Captive Nation: Black […]
Prisoner Activism and Organization
by Jonathan Schachter Source: “I Make American Flags for Thirty-five Cents a Day”[1] This article, from a December 16, 1972 – January 5, 1973 issue, was published by a newspaper entitled Fifth Estate. The piece “I Make American Flags for Thirty-five Cents a Day,” details the sentiments and experiences of a convict laborer at Green […]
Convict Leasing in 1920s Georgia
by Audrey Vila Source: “Papers of the NAACP: Prisoner leasing to states and federal prisoner treatment legislation” [0] Published as an NAACP subject file, the source is a collection of newspaper articles about an alleged instance of convict leasing in Georgia in 1929. Almost 100 Black prisoners were leased from the Atlanta Federal Prison to […]
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