United Prisoners Union

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The United Prisoners Union (UPU) is a US prisoners union based in Sacramento and was founded in 1970.

In 1970 the UPU published its Bill of Rights .

In 1973 it split into the Prisoners Union, led by Willie Holder , and the United Prisoners Union, led by Popeye Jackson .

With the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), she managed to petition the United Nations for US prisoners in the late 1970s .

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1970 United Prisoners Union Bill of Rights , Internet Archive
  2. ↑ Eric Cummins : The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement . Stanford University Press , Stanford 1994, ISBN 978-0-8047-2232-2 , pp. 215–216 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Anthony Bottom . LIFE: A Political Prisoner's Journey in the US Prison System by A. Jalil Bottom (2005)