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Frank Gaskins

AKA: Comrade Ko-Jo
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
State:Illinois
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Biography

Black prisoner held two and a half years in the Marion federal penitentiary's behavior-modification unit, taken to St. Louis in Sept. 1975 to be arraigned on charges of assaulting four guards; The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.3 (1975) reports supporters called it a frame-up, since the handcuffed prisoner could not have assaulted four guards. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v14 no.3; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]

Case

United States Penitentiary, Marion
Charges: Assaulting four prison guards
Arrested: September 1975
Sentence: Held 2.5 years in Marion penitentiary's behavior-modification unit; taken to St. Louis in Sept. 1975 to be arraigned on charges of assaulting four guards, which supporters said was impossible for a handcuffed prisoner Verdict as recorded: Unknown — arraigned; supporters called it a frame-up
Convicted: Unknown
Institution State: Illinois