Skip to content

Charles Jennings

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Illinois
Support
Black Liberation Prison Abolition
No image available

Biography

One of the 'Stateville Four,' Black prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois framed for the 1977 stabbing of a prison guard following organizing inside the prison. Their case was a focus of PFOC and other support campaigns. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

Case

Stateville Correctional Center
Charges: Murder of prison guard (framed)
Arrested: Jan 1, 1977
Institution State: Illinois