Sara Jane Olson released

On March 17, political prisoner Sara Jane Olson, 62, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was freed from the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where her husband was waiting for her. She will be allowed to serve her year-long parole in Minnesota, the state she adopted while living underground for 24 years. She served seven years – half her sentence – after pleading guilty to helping place pipe bombs under Los Angeles Police Department patrol cars and participating in the robbery of a bank in a Sacramento suburb.