Word: convictions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison boiler room by simply walking away from a work detail. Rebuffed when he sought help from several black women in the San Francisco Bay Area, he turned to the white radical friends he had met at Vacaville and was given haven by Patricia Soltysik. Joined by Black Convict Thero Wheeler, who escaped from Vacaville five months later, the group founded the S.L.A. They recruited no more than 25 known supporters, among whom were alumni of the Black Panthers and the defunct Maoist revolutionary group called the Venceremos ("We shall conquer") who were dissatisfied because those groups were too moderate...
Shot on Sight. Cinque is believed to be an escaped black convict named Donald D. DeFreeze. The theory that DeFreeze is not the true leader of the S.L.A. is supported by a man with a rare personal knowledge of the man and the organization. Colston Westbrook, 36, a black instructor in linguistics at Berkeley, met DeFreeze while visiting California's Vacaville prison to take part in the activities of the Black Cultural Association. The S.L.A. partly evolved from the group. Westbrook recalls De-Freeze as "a cat submerged in divine blackness and interested in black problems." But now, Westbrook...
Even hardened criminals in the Kansas state industrial reformatory in Hutchinson might have shivered a bit when they learned the news: a self-proclaimed witch was in the prison. He was not a convict but Robert J. Williams, 45, one of the three staff psychologists. Williams is a member of what he calls the Gardnerian sect, an occult paganistic group that worships a two-headed, male-female godhead and performs some of its ceremonies in the nude (and refers to both male and female mem bers as witches). After the Wichita Eagle and the Beacon ran the story last November...
...paterfamilias, director and centrifugal force of The Family is Marvin Camillo, 36, a dark, mustachioed man inclined to high-riser blue shoes and flowered shirts, whom his company -not entirely jokingly-call "Poncho God." Camillo, one of the few members of The Family who is not an ex-convict, is a veteran actor who grew up in the Newark ghetto, where "I spent my life avoiding situations that would get me into prison." In 1971 Camillo did go to Sing Sing, however, to help with a prisoners' theater workshop. A year later he opened his own workshop...
...trials themselves have a different complexion, with juries approximating the city's racial makeup. And juries virtually never vote to convict if there is any suspicion of police brutality. This, perhaps more than any other change, has brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares...