Who We Are

CEML is an anti-racist group which fights against the brutality of ``control unit'' prisons. Prisoners in these prisons are caged for arbitrary lengths of time, sometimes years, in total isolation in conditions that violate the United Nations' Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners. We also work to expose the racist nature of imprisonment in the U.S. For more details of what we do, check out this Brief History of CEML

CEML can be reached at CEML@aol.com

CEML Literature on Prisons and Racism

• CEML articles on Control Unit Prisons and Prisons and Racism:
• The Continuing Crime of Black Imprisonment
• Control Unit Prisons in the United States
• Walkin' Steel, our newsletter
• Fall 1998 Issue
• Fall 1997 Issue
• Fall 1996 Issue
• Fall 1995 Issue
• CEML Events and Speeches Given by CEML Members
• The 1995 CEML Fall Program "Mass Incarceration and Control Unit Prisons: Crime Control or Social Control?"
• Commemorative speech about Bill Kunstler A member of CEML who knew Bill Kunstler spoke at a celebration of his life.

Other Documents

• The ``War on Drugs''
• Check out the October 18, 1995 debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on crack senten cing. The House voted overwhelmingly to reject the U.S. Sentencing Commission's recommendations to equalize sentences between powder and crack forms of cocaine , sparking a series of rebellions in the federal prison system. A larger selection of the debate in both houses can be found here.
• Read Jesse Jackson Sr.'s remarks to the Million Man March on racist sentencing laws and the growth of the prison industrial complex.
• COINTELPRO Stories (to appear)
• Link to the Copwatch Home page, containing the archives of the POL-ABUSE mailing list.
• Prison Privatization and Prison Labor - A collection of interesting articles from a variety of sources.

Groups working against Control Units

International

CEML Resources

What can I do?

• Disseminate our articles. Please keep the CEML reference attached so that people can trace it.
• Join CEML.
• Join the Emergency Response Network
• Send us relevant articles or links for posting here. We would like to make this spot a clearinghouse for information on control unit prisons and work that is being done on this issue.
• Consider making a contribution if you use our material (or even if you don't)

Links to other prison sites

from the Long Haul Infoshop -an excellent "collection of links to other sites on the web with information useful in Our struggle for self-determined life."

Created: May 18, 1995
Last Updated: Jan 2, 1996