LAYERS OF INJUSTICE- The Re-Examining Lucasville Essays edited and compiled into one document.
VOICES OF THE LUCASVILLE UPRISING- Collections of various essays and articles off this site. VOLUME 1 VOLUME 2 VOLUME 3
Staughton and Alice Lynd
The Lynds
have been supporters of the Lucasville uprising prisoners since 1996. They have
a long history of support for civil rights and for nonviolent alternatives to
war.
Staughton
was a history professor but no university would hire him after his activism
during the Vietnam War. First he,
and then Alice, went to law school and became labor lawyers. Staughton sued U.S. Steel in an
unsuccessful effort to keep steel mills from shutting down and to permit worker
community ownership. Alice worked
on employment discrimination cases, health and safety violations, and
represented retirees who lost pension and medical benefits as a result of plant
closings.
As volunteer
attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Lynds were two
members of the team that brought a class action concerning the conditions of
confinement and due process rights of prisoners at the Ohio State Penitentiary.
That case went to the Supreme Court of the United States and established certain
procedural rights for supermaximum security prisoners nationwide. Staughton and Alice also wrote friend of
the court briefs on behalf of several of the men sentenced to death for their
alleged conduct during the Lucasville uprising.
Staughton
Lynd’s book, Lucasville: The
Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, first published by Temple University
Press in 2004, is now available in a second edition published by PM Press, P. O.
Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94523.
Staughton
and Alice have been exceedingly generous and helpful to those who built this
site. They can be contacted via email at salynd@aol.com. More
from Staughton Lynd, here.
Community resource for monitoring the treatment of prisoners in Ohio. Documenting Human Rights Abuses for those imprisoned. Prisoners speaking up for Humanity. "May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die. Psalm 79:10-12"
They've got a section dedicated to the Lucasville Uprising prisoners.
PrisonerSolidarity.org
Prisonersolidarity.org serves as a catalyst for communication between prisoners and people on "the outside." It publishes updated research, news, opinion pieces and educational material from activists, writers, prisoners, and the concerned public.
In addition to this more general work, Prisoner Solidarity maintains an extensive archive of Lucasville related articles, essays and information.
Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network
Organizers of a number of protests and support actions for the Lucasville inmates, particularly active during the 2011 Hungerstrike. They do not have a website, but have set up a facebook group and members produce content for Workers World. Can be reached via email at sdanann@gmail.com
RedBird Prison Abolition
RedBird members have been corresponding with many of Lucasville Uprising Prisoners, they have created and traveled the US with a workshop about the uprising.
