Shut Down the Control Units
Control units have various names such as Adjustment Center, Security Housing Unit (SHU), Maximum Control Complex (MCC), administrative maximum (ad-max), Intensive Management Unit (IMU) and administrative segregation (ad-seg). Prisoners spend years of isolation in tiny cells, usually 6 by 8 feet for 22 - 23.5 hours a day. In some cases the long term isolation is complete, in others it is small group isolation; both conditions are tremendously damaging to humans. The short time that they do spend outside their cell is within a cement or chain link "dog pen" that lacks any kind of equipment and proper space for physical exercise. Participation in programs including religious services, educational programs, work and job training, congregate dining and exercise are all prohibited. Medical care is also greatly limited.
Control units may vary from prison to prison but they can be generally characterized as: Permanently designated prisons or cells in prisons that lock prisoners up in solitary or small group confinement for 22 or more hours a day with no congregate dining, exercise or other services, and virtually no programs for prisoners. Prisoners are placed in control units for extended periods of time. Prisoners are usually placed in control units as an administrative measure, with no clear rules governing the moves. This makes it virtually impossible for prisoners to challenge their placement.
Read more about these torture units in this article: The history of Amerika's oppressive control units .
Join a discussion group to share information and resources about control units and coordinate the fight to shut them down. But beware, yahoo collects information on group participants and is definitely not to be trusted. We recommend that you set up a yahoo account (that is not attached to personal information) to particpate in the group. Especially in this era of the Patriot Act, political activists need to be careful about information they give out.
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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End the Amerikkkan Lockdown art collection among other MIM art
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