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HEARNAP — Part 17
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be given thet trust. I know cons thot hove been turned down
J. |. + for thet position. He wouldn't comment; he only gove me a
* +. big smile. t should explain that no prisoners were kept ot the
ae ‘ South Facility at thef time, because if hod no security. No
gun fowers were in operation, ond there were no guards posted. 7
A few prisoners with proven records of trust were taken from _-
Centro! Focility to the South Focility to perform cerfain duties;
. -" ° * then they would be returned to Centrof ofter their shift. A few ©
Te, +." days loter, DeFreeze did get thet job: midnight to eight a.m, ;
“. shift, In the boiler room ot South Facility. Tg
“oy ors On his fist night, he wos dropped off ot midnight, and given
- te e@ few instructions. His job was ovtometic; it only required on
_ overseer. Then he wos left to himself, end when on officer
.teturned an hour Ioter to check on him, he wos gone."
i oy ’ . The South Facility of Soledad, only for trusted inmates, is @ holding section
om _ for informers (the "Soledad Brothers" cose, involving George Jackson}.
. " De Freeze "escaped" from Soledad on 3/5/73. After being rejected by several
Black perey. people in the Bay Arec, De Freeze moved, underground, in while circles °
among people whose names the outhorities were fomilior with from the visitation records
of ko both Vacaville and Soledad. None of these potenticl suspects were followed up
ty outhorities. New Left and prison support groups rejected De Freeze's offers of violent
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' *help" os provocative ond intelligence inspired.
dow,
aR 1973, De Freeze was , invalved i in ‘the essassination of Ocklond
School Superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster. This kitling came just ofter Dr, Foster had
acceded to reform demends made by the Osklond Black Community and the Black Panther
Party..
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