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Written by Nancy LaRoche
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:30 |
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This may have been one of the shortest releases ever from prison. The StarTribune reported this evening that Sarah Jane Olson (formerly known as SLA member Kathleen Soliah) was detained while waiting to board a flight to Minneapolis last night.
Nickerson said the sudden reversal of fortune could be the result of a miscalculation of Olson’s scheduled release date.
Olson, 61, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, was freed Monday from the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla after serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s. She had originally been ordered to serve two concurrent six-year sentences for the attempted bombing and her role in a deadly bank robbery in Sacramento.
Agency spokeswoman Terry Thornton would give no details Saturday as to why Olson was detained just days after she was freed on parole from a Central California Prison.
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.
Justice rules the day today. Olson's early release was met with condemnation from the police and the son of the woman murdered by SLA members, which Olson plead guilty to having in role in.
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