Staughton and Alice Lynd

Staughton and Alice Lynd

The Lynds have been supporters of the Lucasville uprising prisoners since 1996. They have a long history of support for civil rights and for nonviolent alternatives to war. 

Staughton was a history professor but no university would hire him after his activism during the Vietnam War.  First he, and then Alice, went to law school and became labor lawyers.  Staughton sued U.S. Steel in an unsuccessful effort to keep steel mills from shutting down and to permit worker community ownership.  Alice worked on employment discrimination cases, health and safety violations, and represented retirees who lost pension and medical benefits as a result of plant closings.

As volunteer attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, the Lynds were two members of the team that brought a class action concerning the conditions of confinement and due process rights of prisoners at the Ohio State Penitentiary. That case went to the Supreme Court of the United States and established certain procedural rights for supermaximum security prisoners nationwide.  Staughton and Alice also wrote friend of the court briefs on behalf of several of the men sentenced to death for their alleged conduct during the Lucasville uprising. 

Staughton Lynd’s book, Lucasville:  The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, first published by Temple University Press in 2004, is now available in a second edition published by PM Press, P. O. Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94523.

Staughton and Alice have been exceedingly generous and helpful to those who built this site. They can be contacted via email at salynd@aol.com. More from Staughton Lynd, here.