After ten days, i was discharged from the hospital over the… - Assata Shakur

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After ten days, i was discharged from the hospital over the objections of my doctor, brought to the middlesex county jail for men, and kept in solitary confinement from February 1974 until May 1974.

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Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron, July 16, 1947) is an activist who was found guilty in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. Shakur was incarcerated in several prisons in the 70s. She escaped from U.S. prison in 1979 and has been living in Cuba in political asylum since 1984. Shakur is the step-aunt/godmother of the late Tupac Shakur.

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Birth Name: JoAnne Deborah Byron

Alternative Names: Joanne Deborah Byron • Joanne Deborah Chesimard • Assata Olugbala Shakur

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