NCJ Number
147402
Editor(s)
W Churchill,
J J Vander Wall
Date Published
1992
Length
442 pages
Annotation
Based on information from about 50 inmates and prisoner's rights activists, this volume describes the physical torture and psychological brainwashing of prisoners with revolutionary beliefs and ideologies, and challenges the position of the Federal Government that no political prisoners are incarcerated in the United States.
Abstract
Case examples are presented to demonstrate that particular inmates assumed important political leadership roles in their communities by opposing United States socioeconomic policy and were specifically targeted for political neutralization by the FBI and cooperating State and local police agencies. Each was also sent to prison on the basis of evidence that was suspicious. The analysis concludes that at least 100 inmates are political prisoners. Even in situations where those imprisoned may actually have engaged to some extent in the acts attributed to them, problems exist of a highly political nature. These concern questions of double jeopardy, selectivity in the application of the law, and sentencing disparity. The analysis concludes that more people must become focused on proliferating political police, political prisons, and political prisoners or the malignant power of the United States government will leave little future for anyone. Photographs, footnotes, addresses of political prisoners, notes on contributors to the volume, and index