California Medical Facility, Vacaville.

  • A visit with Huey Newton at Vacaville Prison Facility

    Black Panther Party co-founder and leader Huey P. Newton discusses his imprisonment at Vacaville Medical Facility in Vacaville, CA with Denny Smithson of KPFA’s Public Affairs Department; Karen Wald, reporter for the Guardian; and Joe Blum, editor of The Movement. Newton talks about the way he’s been portrayed in the media and physical and social…

  • Gays in the joint

    A disturbingly frank documentary on the vindictive treatment of gay men in California’s correctional institutions, with emphasis on the “psychiatrically-oriented” facility at Vacaville. The classification of different types of gay men within the prison, how a prisoner’s homosexuality affects their chances for parole, and the relationship between prisons and the industrial sector in California are…