Ruchell “Cinque” Magee is Free after 67 years of incarceration

July 24, 2023August 3, 2024RBG Street Scholar 2 Comments

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BLACK POLITICAL PRISONER FREED AFTER DECADES

Africans in America are celebrating the release of Ruchell Magee – seen by activists as the world’s longest-serving political prisoner. He’s been freed after more than half a century in US incarceration. In 1970, he took part in a… pic.twitter.com/VmUInoI5KX
— African Stream (@african_stream) August 9, 2023

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A ‘major disturbance’ broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson (R), a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from their rock-walled enclosure. Jackson was killed in the escape attempt, the other prisoner gave up and was recaptured. The Soledad Brothers are three black convicts charged with slaying a guard at the Soledad State Prison in January 1970. They are (L-R): Fleeta Drumgo, 26; John W. Cluchette, 28; and Jackson, 29.