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...December 1972, DeFreeze was transferred to Soledad prison and escaped the following March 5 from the prison boiler room by simply walking away from a work detail. Rebuffed when he sought help from several black women in the San Francisco Bay Area, he turned to the white radical friends he had met at Vacaville and was given haven by Patricia Soltysik. Joined by Black Convict Thero Wheeler, who escaped from Vacaville five months later, the group founded the S.L.A. They recruited no more than 25 known supporters, among whom were alumni of the Black Panthers and the defunct Maoist revolutionary...
...first solid break in the case came with the probable identification of Cinque as Donald D. DeFreeze, 30, an escaped prisoner who had been serving a five-year-to-life term at California's Soledad prison for assault and robbery...
...these and told what became of them. Examples: Tom Murton, prison warden brought to Arkansas in 1967 by Governor Winthrop Rockefeller-fired by Rockefeller (and blacklisted in his vocation) for disclosing his findings of widespread corruption and brutality to the press. Dr. Frank Rundle, psychiatrist of Soledad prison-summarily dismissed for refusing to turn over the confidential psychiatric file of a prisoner-patient to the warden. Edward F. Roberts, correctional officer at Raiford State Prison in Florida-who testified before a congressional committee that he was forced out of his job because he refused to go along with his supervisor...
Birdman of Alcatraz. 1962. Director John Frankenheimer and Burt Lancaster as the prison inmate who spends his long stretch learning ornithology produce an above-average prison drama. However, if you really want to know about prisons, read "Soledad Brother...
Pulse Beats. But without proof of motive, the rest of the case is inadequate. Prosecutor Harris contends that the hostages were to be traded for the freedom of the Soledad defendants, particularly Jonathan Jackson's older brother George, and that Miss Davis took part in the plot out of her love for him. Miss Davis, who actually met George Jackson only once, has said that she became interested in the Soledad case for political reasons and that she felt "affection" for Jackson. But Prosecutor Harris has emphasized passion rather than politics. To back his allegation, he produced three letters...