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George Lester Jackson — Part 05
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DRAFT
STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUICE
UNIT..
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20535
(Draft of Proposed Letter)
The Washington Post
1515 L Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20005
I wish to take exception t9 the misleading impressions
concerning the criminal character of George Jackson
as set forth in the editorial "Justice and the Angela Davis
.These essentials, in my opinion,.
should be prime considerations.
b 7C
that
"is serving a life sentence 'without the possibility
of parole' for an offense involving the transfer of $10 worth of marijuana."
A reasonable man, I feel, would gonclude that these individuals were
overly penalized for the offenses mentioned, out of all proportion to the
severity of the crimes involved./Logically, it would appear they were
both victims of gross injustice.
A closer examination, however, of the criminal histories
might result in a far different conclusion, and it is
of Jackson
interesting to note that other publications of widespread readership
Jackson, for
nature of the criminal histories of Jackson
example, received his indeterminate sentence of one year to life after
admitting participation in an armed robbery, wherein the robbery victim
was threatened with death, and this sentence was affixed as a result of
described in
two previous commitments as a juvenile offender.
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