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On February of 1970, George Jackson and two other black inmates--Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette--were charged with the murder of John Mills, a white, 26-year-old guard at Soledad. Mills's death occurred less than a week after another white guard, O.G. Miller, shot three inmates to...
For many, particularly young cons with long sentences, simply seeing San Quentin is enough. To see its walls and buildings, some of which are over 100 years old, is to regard a place that radiates control. Control enforced by any means necessary.
When Nat Turners unleash their rage or when cons go over the wall, the system that failed to hold them invariably comes under attack. Although much of the attacks call for the further application of existing mechanisms of control, some advocate employing the opposite tack or even the abolition of...
In April of 1965, George Jackson was charged with knifing another inmate. Jackson, who claims never to have employed violence except in self-defense, wirtes in Soledad Brother that the charge was just one in a number of attempts to undermine his growing influence with other cons. "This is all...
The indeterminate sentence is an old idea first advocated by British and French penal reformers in the 19th century. The European reformers and their American counterparts argued that the practice of giving a convict a fixed sentence--one in which the time to be served is immutable by any action...