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Chuck Armsbury

AKA: Charles Armsbury
Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1970s
State:Washington
Support
Anti-Racism Socialism
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Biography

Chuck Armsbury chaired the Eugene, Oregon chapter of the Patriot Party, the white working-class wing of the Rainbow Coalition that organized alongside the Black Panther Party. He spent years in federal prison on charges his supporters called trumped-up, and while imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary co-filed a 1970 prisoners' "Genocide Complaint" against the federal government.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Federal charges (denounced by supporters as trumped-up political prosecution)
Sentence: Several years in federal prison
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington