After expressing remorse for the Brink's robbery, in which a guard and two police officers were killed, Boudin became a model prisoner and developed a program on parenting behind bars before being paroled in 2003.
She and Gilbert joined members of the Black Liberation Army in the Oct. 20, 1981, robbery, stealing $1.6 million in cash from an armored car outside the Nanuet Mall near the Hudson River community of Nyack.
“I feel terrible about the lives that were lost as a result of this incident,” Boudin said in court, standing next to her father. “I have led a life committed to political principles. I believe I can be true to these principles in various ways without engaging in violent acts.” After her release, she founded a program that provides health care for people returning from incarceration and co-founded the Center for Justice at Columbia University, which seeks alternatives to mass incarceration. She earned a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College and taught at the Columbia School of Social Work, according to the Center for Justice.
Boudin and Gilbert were married after their arrests and later divorced in prison, but remained close and had been spending their days together since Gilbert's release, Chesa Boudin said.
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