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of Y wing, Correctional Training Facility, Soledad, California, as of January 16, 1970, the date of the alleged offenses charged in Pesvie v. Jackson, et al,. of 146 letters, 48 were returned by Soledad authorities with designations “address unknown" or "moved, left no address." We received ; 15 replies from inmates to Exhibit A. of these 15 replies, 12 inmates asked for the legal assistance offered in Exhibit A. Three inmates ceclined, explicitly, the legal assistance oo st am ot & © WM offered in Exhibit A, and enclosed letters begging to be left se, f=] alone, and expressing fear over any association with the case il at all. These letters included a plea expressing fear that 12 an already granted parole would be withdrawn: 13 "I have a tentative release date of December 7, - 1970 As of December 7, I will be starting 14 my life again from scratch. It-means that if I work like a dog for a few years, JI 15 might have a warcrobe, transportation, and a place to stay. If you subpoena me, not 16 | only will I probably lose my job, but in my opinion it certainly won't be at all WW conducive to my parole. When I am released, I will have the $68.00 they give me and a desire to stay out. Please don't cause me any unnecessary harassment." to a letter stating as follows: “It isn't in my nature to be nice to someone trying to get me killed. You people. talking about protection, whom dd you think you could protect? Certainly no inmate.” I have personally heen informed by an attorney from a city in Fresno County, California, that he had seen a resident of Y Wing now in another prison in California, on other legal business, and that the said inmate was terrified and in fear for his life, and that another former resident 29|| of Y Wing, known to the said inmate, was likewise in fear, 80} and that both said inmates knew, as witnesses to the events of January 16. 1970, that the defendants did not commit the $2 offenses charged therein. I was also informed in a communicatic -2- . ‘