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...things in Prison occur in private. It is an environment almost without internal secrets. The pressure that was being applied to break George Jackson was well-known within San Quentin and throughout the California penal system. Equally well known was the fact that Jackson had not been broken, and more importantly, that he had not had his capacity to reason and to love destroyed in self-defense...
...this rapprochement between Jackson and his family had no effect upon the actions and attitudes with which he had to deal inside the joint. In August, 1968, after he had been refused a transfer out of San Quentin, Jackson wrote to his mother...
...difficult to say precisely when or where it began, but in his second term at San Quentin or before, George Jackson did begin to change. At some time in some joint, George Jackson read or heard or did or was done to something that was for him like a slow-fused madeleine. Some part of the puzzle lowered itself into place and initiated a descent into hell so intense as to jimmy the gates of heaven...
Largely, Soledad Brother is the log of that descent. It catches Jacks in mid-flight in June of 1964. He was still in San Quentin then, but the first letter of the book reveals that already he was vastly different from the aimless small-time booster California had flushed into its prisons three years before. He writes to his mother...
...early hours of morning are the only time of day that one can find respite from the pandemonium caused by these the most uncultured San Quentin inmates. I don't let the noise bother me...because I try to understand my surroundings. I've asked myself, as I do about