Posted on 03/22/2008 5:24:48 AM PDT by rhema
Nearly nine years after she was arrested and six years after she went to prison, Sara Jane Olson will once again call St. Paul home.
Olson, who pleaded guilty to a failed plot to kill Los Angeles police officers and to her role in a deadly bank robbery, was released from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on Monday and is expected to arrive in the Twin Cities by today. A young man who answered the phone at the family home in St. Paul early Friday evening said the family would have no comment.
Olson is scheduled to report to a Ramsey County parole officer on Monday, said Chris Crutchfield, deputy director of community relations for the county's corrections division.
Upon learning of her release, the union that represents Los Angeles police officers issued a statement expressing its disappointment. "She needs to serve her full time in prison for these crimes and does not deserve time off for working in prison," said Tim Sands, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
Friends and supporters of Olson in the Twin Cities, however, applauded her release.
Olson was given permission on Wednesday to return to St. Paul by the Minnesota Department of Corrections, a department spokeswoman said. Ramsey County community corrections also approved her transfer to Minnesota, and California authorities notified the county that she had been given permission to leave California on Friday, with arrival no later than today.
"She does want to return to Minnesota," said her attorney, David Nickerson, of San Rafael, Calif., in an interview Friday.
Olson was a member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, a tiny urban guerrilla group that achieved notoriety for the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
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“Olson, who pleaded guilty to a failed plot to kill Los Angeles police officers and to her role in a deadly bank robbery”
She should have rotted behind bars.
Who wants to bet we’ll see her ugly mug out protesting at the Republican convention?
Let’s hope she does and then gets arrested. That would be a parole violation and send her back to prison to serve the rest of her sentence.
She’s right on schedule for a Cabinet position in Hillary’s administration.
Had she just been a quiet housewife without the "social activist" tag I wonder how many Minnesota liberals would be welcoming her home.
Olson and her buddies were resp[onsible for the death of someone.
Wonder if that persons kin will go after her sorry ass?
Had it been my dad she was responsible for doing in I know I’d be looking for her.
More’s the pity for old St. Paul city.
Looks like she’ll be the leader of the Twin Cities Code Pinko chapter.
bingo.
Don't say things like that. You'll make McCain angry.
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