This press release describes an effort from the NPRA and other concerned citizens to urge MA Gov. Michael Dukakis to end the lock-up of half of the Walpole prison population.
This excerpt of a letter written by a teacher and graduate student highlight the tactics of the San Quentin prison guards and administration to foment racial divisions and disrupt efforts to build solidarity.
These documents include a letter condemning Superintendent Douglas Vinzant, as well as an open letter to the Massachusetts Legislature lobbying for specific bills.
This letter from the NPRA to the Walpole prisoners outlines their main grievances with the prison, including low pay, lack of work and educational release programs, movement within the prison, and more.
After a meeting between the NPRA Board of Directors and Superintendent Douglas Vinzant, the NPRA posted this bulletin listing several key issues they hoped to resolve, mostly focusing on visitation issues and prisoners' rights.
Kerrigan, from the NPRA, writes to Vinzant, the Superintendent of Walpole, that the NPRA is willing to partner with the prison administration to reform the prison in a mutually beneficial way.
Grace, from the NPRA, writes to Donald Nickerson, a reverend in Maine, and Charles Forte of the NPRA to see if they can assist with the situation of a prisoner, Eugene Pulsifer, hoping to return to Maine after his prison sentence.