Volume 15, Number 6 · October 8, 1970
Soledad Brother: Two Prison Letters from George Jackson
By George Jackson, Introduction by Greg Armstrong
When George Jackson was eighteen, he was sentenced to from one year to life for stealing seventy dollars from a gas station. By now he has spent ten years in prison, seven of them in solitary confinement. He has been repeatedly promised parole and then denied it. To justify their treatment, prison officials have branded him as a 'dangerous freewheeling convict leader who must be isolated because of his impact on the prison population.' Huey P. Newton, who heard about Jackson while he himself was in prison at San Luis Obispo, explains it in a different way: 'George Jackson is a legend in the California prison system. Someone who has refused to sacrifice his integrity or the integrity of anyone else to get out of prison.'
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