Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next to your cell. A guard, by examining your body or patting you assures himself that you are not concealing a weapon. You must spread the cheeks of your buttocks so the guard can make certain that nothing is concealed in your anus. A prisoner, a man confined, in Soledad Prison, Salinas, California, is subject to "skin searches" at any time, at the guard's discretion. Like so many prison "procedures" it is designed not for security, but to break the inmate's spirit, to make him docile, obedient, easy to handle, "rehabilitated...
...January 13, 1969, fifteen prisoners were skin searched and ordered out to the special exercise yard of Soledad Prison. Guards, I believe, do not walk with the prisoners in the yard. Instead the prisoners are overseen by tower guards, who, from the high towers at the corners of the yard, look down at the prisoners through the sights of automatic rifles. This day, January 13, a fight broke out between a white and a black inmate. The tower guard began to fire at the black inmates walking in the yard. He fired four shots, and three men were killed...
Angela was wanted by California authorities for allegedly supplying the guns used by the kidnapers in last summer's bloody Marin County courthouse shootout (TIME, Aug. 24). A onetime member of the Black Panther Party, she often traveled the state raising money and organizing the defense of the Soledad Three, a trio of blacks accused of killing a California prison guard. A frequent companion, Jonathan Jackson, was a leader in the courthouse kidnap attempt...
Listen. There are no neutrals in genetic warfare. There are no noncombatants at Buchenwald, My Lai, Soledad. You are either part of the death apparatus, or you belong to the network of free life...
...last seven months I, a free wild man, have been locked in P.O.W. camps. No living creature can survive in a cage. In my flight to freedom, I leave behind a million Brothers and Sisters in the P.O.W. prisons of Quentin, Soledad, Con Thier...