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...prison system (TIME cover, Jan. 18) is still inhumane and brutalizes rather than rehabilitates. The ills are not remedied by riots. The public has every reason to be outraged by the beatings, or as in last month's smaller but more violent uprising at San Quentin, the killing of guards. Yet, given the persistence of dehumanizing conditions in so many prisons, it is perhaps lucky that there have not been more Attica-scale rebellions...
...lawyers and family. The Spanish-made 9-mm. gun that Jackson reportedly carried in his hair was approximately 8 in. long-too large not to be spotted immediately or indeed, it would seem, to be Carried in his hair as prison officials claimed. Later, spokesmen at San Quentin announced that the gun was concealed under a wig, which they said they had found in the cell block plumbing. Bingham, the nephew of New York Congressman Jonathan Bingham and the grandson of a former Connecticut Governor and Senator, was suspected of smuggling the gun into the prison inside a tape recorder...
...gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have-not society have engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself." Last week in San Quentin, the flame burned...
...ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...many American radicals, white and black alike, the truth about what happened at San Quentin does not matter; they are convinced beyond doubt that George Jackson was a political martyr. It is sad that many of those who mourn Jackson are oblivious to the fact that three guards and two other convicts died with him. It is equally disturbing that Angela Davis' defenders forget that, whatever her innocence or guilt in the episode, four people, including a judge, Jonathan Jackson and two convicts, died in the Marin County Courthouse gun battle. Surely white racists suspected of purchasing guns...