Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diagnostic tests given during the reception stage of his confinement, Jackson was assigned to the vocational school at Tracy. However, that school, like the one at Lancaster it was built to supplement, already was overcrowded: so the Youth Authority sent prisoner A-63837 to the medium security prison at Soledad...
...Soledad is a part of the California that is not California, that is, it is a place not of movie stars or cablecars, but of pears and prunes, pear-pickers and prune-pickers. Walled in by the Diablo and Santa Lucia ranges, it is burned and dusty throughout the summer and rainy in winter. Soledad is not the kind of place to which one would go to leave one's heart...
...allegedly threatening his employer's life and damaging some of his property. A month later, he was picked up in Bakersfield for a service station robbery that had netted $105. There is a disparity between the superficials of this case and what Jackson claimed was the complete situation. In Soledad Brother, he said that he and two black friends found themselves locked up in Kern County Jail on suspicion of a number of thefts. "Since the opposition cleans up the books when they find the right type of victim, they accused us of a number of robberies we knew nothing...
...service station stick-up. Although at no time denying having been involved to some degree in the caper, Jackson's reported versions of the story maintain his legal innocence. However, this was never tested in court because Jackson and the other black accused of the crime pleaded guilty. In Soledad Brother, Jackson explains why; "I accepted a deal--I agreed to confess and spare country court costs in return for a light county jail sentence. I confessed but when time came for sentencing, they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life...
Jackson could hold little hope that by confessing he might deter the county from prosecuting him. Moreover, he belonged to a subculture and subscribed to its code that deems fingering for the cops only slightly less offensive than being a cop. In his autobiography in Soledad Brother, Jackson explains proudly how his charging of the policeman he claims fired at him and his confessing to crimes he had not committed took the heat off his partners and friends. Thus, it would seem highly improbable that Jackson confessed in hopes of receiving a state's evidence immunity...