Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used throughout the book.
- AC
- Adjustment Center, solitary confinement unit in California prisons
- BGF
- Black Guerrilla Family
- BLA
- Black Liberation Army
- BPP
- Black Panther Party
- CP
- Communist Party
- CR
- Critical Resistance
- DVI
- Deuel Vocational Institution, prison in Tracy, California
- FALN
- Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Armed Forces of National Liberation)
- FBI
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- GIP
- Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons (Prison Information Group)
- LAPD
- Los Angeles Police Department
- NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NAARPR
- National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression
- NAPO
- New Afrikan Prisoners Organization, later the New Afrikan People’s Organization
- NCBL
- National Conference of Black Lawyers
- NLG
- National Lawyers Guild
- NOI
- Nation of Islam
- PFOC
- Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
- RNA
- Republic of New Afrika
- SBDC
- Soledad Brothers Defense Committee
- SCLC
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- SNCC
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- SWAT
- Special Weapons and Tactics police units
- UN
- United Nations
- UPU
- United Prisoners Union