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Read [Nancy Kurshan Book] ! Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons Written in a very accessible and eloquent style by Nancy Kurshan, a CEML co-founder and leading activist throughout its history, the book recounts how the committee led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and sought to build a national movement to expose and abolish 'end-of-the-line' prisons. and internationally. Days, months, years would go by Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons tells the inspiring story o
| Title | : | Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 097907892X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
First, CEML represents a continuation of the politics of anti-racist politics of the 1960s movements for social change. Thank you Nancy and Steve from the bottom of my heart. prisons for 15 years. Finally, CEML brought critical attention to the inhumane nature of the control units of Marion Federal Prison in Illinois, which became the model for maximum-security incarceration in the U.S. prison system. En resistencia y lucha, Oscar Lopez Rivera --Oscar Lopez Rivera . For it is a treasure-trove of information. What we
John DeWind said Fighting a Giant. This is a great book about a brave organization that fought against the tide of the times. Kurshan, a lead organizer, tells the story of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, which resisted the trend of the late 1980's and 90's to build ever more prisons and make them ever more oppressive places in which prisoners were held in solitary confinement in horrendous conditions meant to cut them off . "The Great Imprisonment Binge to Racist Hell" according to Steven Whitman. This is an astounding and oh-so-needed book about the history of solitar confinement and control units in the United States and the battle against them. Kurshan spins an enthralling history of the oppositional effort. And who else would be able to effectively quote Amicar Cabral, Malcolm X and Yogi Berra ("We made too many wrong mistakes") on the same page? One is imeediately pulled in to Kurshan's. Detailed and instructive As John DeWind says in his review above, this is an inspiring story that is completely relevant to all the issues of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex today.What especially distinguishes Kurshan's book is the unique combination of her personal narrative - which makes the book an engaging read - and her detailed reporting of the Committee's work, from research, letter-writing, med
Written in a very accessible and eloquent style by Nancy Kurshan, a CEML co-founder and leading activist throughout its history, the book recounts how the committee led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and sought to build a national movement to expose and abolish 'end-of-the-line' prisons. and internationally. Days, months, years would go by Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons tells the inspiring story of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). Founded in 1985 to organize against control unit prisons and related inhumane practices at the notorious federal prison in Marion, Illinois, the committee's work and influence spread nationwide, even as the practices at Marion became widespread in many other prisons in the U.S. There was no way to know when it
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