Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, two of the surviving Soledad Brothers, were acquitted by an all-white jury of charges that they had murdered a white prison guard at Soledad Prison in 1970. The third Soledad Brother, George Jackson, was killed in August 1971 during what authorities claimed was an escape attempt. The case became a rallying point for activists and spotlighted systemic racism and injustice within the U.S. prison system.
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