SLA Member Must Stay in Prison says Judge

A judge refused to free a former l970's radical and longtime fugitive who was sent back to prison days after state corrections officials released her by mistake. Attorneys for former Symbionese Liberation Army member, Sara Jane Olson, failed to show that corrections officials acted illegally and that Olson herself should have realized she was being freed too soon. Olson's lawyers had argued that corrections officials had no authority to re-arrest her after she was mistakenly paroled March 17 after six years in prison. She pleaded guilty to the attempted bombing of Los Angeles police cars and to the killing of a customer during a l975 bank robbery in suburban Sacramento. She had lived as a fugitive in Minnesota for 25 years until her capture in l999.