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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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Ray Luc Levasseur

"This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse": An Interview with Ray Luc Levasseur

November 27, 2013October 21, 2015 Aviva Stahl
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The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, a former political prisoner who spent over fifteen years in solitary confinement, primarily at USP Marion and ADX Florence. Levasseur was raised in Maine, born to a working-class family of Quebecois origin. He became politically radicalized about race and class at a […]

Voices from Solitary: "A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles"

November 27, 2013October 21, 2015 Voices from Solitary
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Former political prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur was raised in Maine, born to a working-class family of Quebecois origin. He became politically radicalized at a young age, first after serving a term of duty in Vietnam, and again after spending two years in a Tennessee prison.  In 1986, Ray Luc Levasseur was convicted for militant activities conducted […]

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

June 19, 2010October 21, 2015 James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
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Raymond Luc Levasseur wrote the following essay back in 1996, when he was a prisoner at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, known as ADX (for “Administrative Maximum”). A Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist, Levasseur became a member of the revolutionary group United Freedom Front. In 1986, he and several others were convicted of taking part […]