United Prisoners Union. [Cover title].

Sacramento, California: United Prisoners Union Membership Department, (n. d.), circa 1972. 17-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches. [4]pp. Tabloid format publication, printed in black on white stock. Toning; center machine fold line; light bumping to corners and spine head; small stain to upper fore-edge; small split to center of spine at fold. Good. Newspaper-format brochure, with a double-page spread of the United Prisoners Union (UPU) Bill of Rights followed by an explanation of what unionizing will achieve and a call to join the UPU: "We of the convicted working class ... are still daily being psychologically tortured by the nebulous but spirit crushing reality of the indeterminate sentence law, we are still political pawns in the game of power, profit and political debts incurred by the governor and the director of corrections, we are still being issued trade certificates which aren't worth the price of zig zag papers on the streets, we are still being parolled back to the identical poverty and degradation which has been a ccle in our lives of poverty, prison, parole and more poverty.... It is no small wonder that we can do nothing but continue to suffer unspeakable crimes against us and lick our wounds. We are unorganized. We have the numbers, but we have no righteous unity." Not located in OCLC, but we find one digitized copy in the Freedom Archives.