Browse Items (1263 total)

Statement by Black prisoners in support of Commissioner John Boone.

Citizen observer describes the conditions for which prisoners endured on April 7, 1973.

Summary of NPRA meeting that discussed several issues including a potential revision of the NPRA board, meeting with Rhode Island attorneys, and observer reports.

Advertisement from Ease, Inc (Emergency Adjustment Service to Ex-Offenders) providing mailing information and assistance for prisoners.

Gabel and Green, Co-Directors of the Moving-On Committee, thank Coles, a member of the NPRA, for attending the committee's most recent meeting and asks for his help in the project.

Grace, from the NPRA, writes to Gunter, the Superintendent overseeing Walpole, about scheduling a meeting between the two.

This NPRA memo was sent out to all the attendees of the previous Moving On meeting in March with the intent of scheduling another meeting in May.

This three-page advertisement describes the Moving-On program and offers it to the incarcerated population at Walpole.

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.

The flyer urges prisoners to attend the upcoming NPRA meeting.

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.

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.

This brief pamphlet describes the aims of the NPRA and offers alternatives to the current prison system.

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.

The memorandum lists fifteen items that have been negotiated between the NPRA and the prison administration.

These letters from Kerrigan, the president of the NPRA, allege that Vinzant has not negotiated in good faith.

These notes include quotations from Vinzant and the NPRA's perception of him.