This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.
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Serve the People Prisoners' Legal Clinic

There are two principal missions of this legal clinic: (1) Organize prisoners with legal skills into producing both a legal arsenal for politically active prisoners to use in defending their "rights" to organize politically, and (2) educate prisoners and people on the outside that in the criminal injustice system there are no rights, only power struggles. This program should both build up MIM's file of legal assistance we can offer prisoners and advance the level of reporting on prisons in MIM and RAIL publications.
Find further explanation of the PLC here.

MIM Legal Notes

MIM Legal Notes is the central task of the Prisoners' Legal Clinic. Some of the articles listed below have been published in MIM Notes and have reached many prisoner subscribers.

MIM Legal Notes is researched and written by our comrades behind the walls. We publish these articles and briefs because we believe that the legal research and arguments will be useful to other prisoners. But comrades should be aware that differences in laws between states, changes in laws and legal precedents over time, and different case circumstances all mean that even something that was successful for one person might not work for others. We print the best legal writing available to us with the understanding that this program will only grow stronger with increased exposure and participation. We encourage all prisoners and non-prisoners to contribute to this program with research, writing, and funding.

There may be other legal arguments or cases or statutes which would better serve your purposes; what you find here should be useful as a starting point. If you can do your own legal work, you may choose to rely on a purely bourgeois legal argument, or also use political arguments to make your legal case.

Censorship in Amerika's Prisons, MIM Legal Notes 184
Michigan Prisons Censor Spanish, MIM Legal Notes 183
Double Jeopardy in Michigan, MIM Legal Notes 174
A Matter of Definition: MI Prisoner Wins Right to Keep Legal Materials, MIM Legal Notes 168
Cain v. MDOC implementations of censorship, MIM Legal Notes 167