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  2. Claudia Jones - Wikipedia

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    Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]

  3. August Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    August Rebellion. The August Rebellion was an uprising on August 29, 1974, [ 1][ 2] at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a New York State prison in Bedford Hills in the Town of Bedford, Westchester County, New York, United States. [ 3] In August 1974, about 200 women imprisoned at Bedford Hills rebelled, taking over parts of ...

  4. Diane Downs - Wikipedia

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    Date apprehended. February 28, 1984. Elizabeth Diane Downs (née Frederickson; born August 7, 1955) is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children near Springfield, Oregon, on May 19, 1983. Following the crimes, she made claims to police that a man had attempted to carjack her and had shot the ...

  5. Incarceration of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States in 2015, women made up 10.4% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [5] [6] Between 2000 and 2010, the number of males in prison grew by 1.4% per annum, while the number of females grew by 1.9% per annum.

  6. Former CIA officer drugged, sexually assaulted dozens of ...

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    A former CIA officer convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women while posted around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. ... READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP.

  7. Patty Hearst - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954) is a member of the Hearst family and granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She first became known for the events following her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was found and arrested 19 months after being abducted, by which time she was a ...

  8. Assata Shakur - Wikipedia

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    e. Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947), [a] also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.

  9. Star of Hope (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    The Star of Hope was a newspaper entirely written published and printed fortnightly by and for inmates of five prisons in New York State, covering topics of world news, health, sports, editorials, fiction and poetry among others. [1] Incepted at Sing Sing penitentiary in 1899, [2] it rapidly spread to Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn Women ...

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