A California man was freed from prison after serving 23 years of his life sentence on a joyriding conviction, including eight years in solitary confinement for possessing a book written by the co-founder of a notorious prison gang.
Kenneth Oliver, right, poses for a selfie with his father Bernard Oliver after his release from prison on Tuesday.
But Oliver was ineligible for a new sentence because he was found with purported gang materials including a book called"Blood In My Eye," completed by Black Guerrilla Family co-founder George Jackson days before he died during a bloody attempt to escape from San Quentin State Prison in 1971. Oliver was arrested while a passenger in a stolen vehicle and pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without permission. A stolen handgun was later found in his hotel room, prosecutors said. It was the latest in a string of crimes dating to an armed robbery when he was 16.
Voters agreed when they opted to free nearly 3,000 third-strike inmates, Romano said. Yet he estimated that another 200 to 500 qualifying inmates remain incarcerated largely because they can't afford the legal team that worked for free on Oliver's behalf.
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