Word: pleasanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FREE PATTY plead T shirts and bumper stickers by the thousands in California. They are visible evidence of a rapidly growing movement to win the release of Patricia Hearst from the federal correctional institution at Pleasanton, Calif., where she is serving a seven-year term for bank robbery. Every weekend in San Diego, 50 volunteers canvass shoppers at supermarkets, collecting signatures on petitions to President Carter. Similar efforts are under way across the country, and a leader of the campaign claims that 40,000 people have signed pleas for clemency. The White House and the Justice Department have received...
...Baedeker of the nation's most wretched hoosegows would have to include Little Greystone, part of the Alameda County jail complex in Pleasanton, Calif. Once a model prison, that Kafkaesque wooden barracks has in the past decade or so become a cesspool of rapes, beatings and illnesses. A U.S. district court in 1972 declared conditions there a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...
Donald R. Merucci Pleasanton, Calif...
...that she was receiving threats from S.L.A. sympathizers and argued more strenuously than ever that she should be bailed out, maintaining that she would be safer under private guard at home. Earlier this month there were reports that Patty was throwing temper tantrums in the Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. She was also said to be upset by the attention paid her by young female prisoners, who made her a cult heroine of the left. Patty demanded to be moved, and on Nov. 9 was transferred to San Diego's Metropolitan Correctional Center, where she occupied a small...
Nicias P. Reckas Pleasanton, Calif...