Control Units

Shut Down the Control Units



Take Action!

As we fight to eliminate the oppression of all groups of people, the Maoist Internationalist Movement has consolidated its efforts to improve the condition of prisoners in the U$ into a nationwide campaign. This campaign focuses on a particularly repressive and growing aspect of prisons in this country: the control units. We need to expose and fight the brutal conditions facing so many prisoners across the country housed in control units. We invite you to join us in demanding the elimination of all control units in prisons in the United $tates. We are circulating this petition and asking that prison activist organizations, as well as anyone who supports basic humyn rights for prisoners, to add their signature to it. We will also be expanding this campaign to gather information and resources and raise our voices against control units across the country. If you would like to get involved further, please contact us.

You can also collect signatures on the streets using this Control unit petition.


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MIM articles on control units

  • Mental Illness and Control Units
  • Alternatives to Control Units: a revolutionary perspective

    News from control units across the country

  • California campaign to shut down the Security Housing Units

  • Oregon IMU: Behavior modification or psychological subjugation?
  • Oregon IMU
  • Oregon prisoner locked down for not making bed

  • Indiana prisoners win appeal against SHU
  • Indiana prisoner exposes Westville MCC conditions

  • Illinois sets segregation quotas
  • Illinois: History of Marion control units
  • Report on Tamms Supermax Control Unit

  • Kansas prisoner - SHUs cause mental illness

  • Alabama: resistance from within Management Control Units

  • New York SHU full of non-violent convictions
  • New York SHU targets oppressed nation organizations

  • Wastelands: prison control units in Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts targets politically conscious prisoners
  • Massachusetts prisoner exposes Walpole control units
  • Massachusetts prisoners in Departmental Disciplinary Units (DDU)
  • Latinos targeted in Massachusetts and New Jersey

  • Michigan Security Threat Group (STG) policy

  • South Carolina turns death row into control unit

  • Virginia control units deny medical care
  • Virginia: torture at Red Onion

  • Wisconsin Supermax webpage (non-MIM site)
  • Wisconsin opens supermax in Boscobel

  • Harassment in Ohio Control Units
    Mainstream press about control units

  • Supermax in Maryland (Baltimore Sun, October 19, 2003)

  • New York Security Housing Units (NY Times, October 22, 2003)

  • California Security Housing Units (LA Times, October 19, 2003)


    More useful resources
    The links below are to articles not written by MIM. We include them here as reference for useful information about control units.

  • A history of Control Units from the AFSC

  • Using International Treaties on Human Rights Abuses from the AFSC

  • Torture in U.S. Prisons, Evidence of Human Rights Violations from the AFSC

  • Prison gangs, repression and COINTELPRO from the AFSC

  • Interview with Sundiata Acoli on effects and uses of control units from the AFSC

  • Interview with Jalil Muntaqim on control unit abuse from the AFSC

  • Survival in Solitary: a manual by and for people in control units from the AFSC

  • Breaking Men's Minds: Behavior Control and Human Experimentation at the Federal Prison in Marion, Illinois from the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons


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