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...accused of seven violations of prison rules. When he came up for parole after the expiration of his minimum sentence, his prison record classified him as "surly and intractable." A bad nigger who "flatly refused to obey orders." Parole was denied and con A-63837 was transferred to San Quentin...
...denying Jackson parole and transferring him to San Quentin, the state officials essentially were trying to impress upon him the power that was at their disposal. Soledad, a medium security prison, is by no means a pleasant environment in which to spend your twenty-first year on earth, but Q has long been notorious as the roughest joint in the state. By exhibiting their ability not only to deny him release but also to worsen the conditions of his confinement, the authorities hoped to drive defiance from Jackson by intimately acquainting him with the cost of such resistance...
...reaction. Jackson played a major role in this sequence, but the chain began long before he was born and, as is evidenced by Attica and the tide of prison disturbances that have followed, the chain was not broken by Jackson's death on an August afternoon in San Quentin...
...year and three months after Clinton Duffy completed his cycle by being appointed Warden of San Quentin, George Jackson was born in Chicago. The first son of parents who had made the short but tragic migration on the IC from downstate Illinois, Jackson's childhood was spent retracing their journey. During the school year, he attended St. Malachy, an internally segregated parochial school in Chicago. His summers were spent with his mother's family in the southern Illinois town of Harrisburg...
...Jackson wrote at the request of the editor of Soledad Brother. Perhaps an even more meaningful evaluation of the influence Papa had on him is given in a letter Jackson wrote to his mother after Papa had died alone and broke during George Jackson's fifth year at San Quentin...