Biography
Judith Alice Clark was a former Weather Underground organizer and one of the four May 19th Communist Organization members who served as getaway drivers in the October 20, 1981 Brink s armored-car expropriation in Nyack, New York. She was arrested at the scene, convicted on September 14, 1983 in Rockland County, New York state court of two counts of first-degree armed robbery and three counts of second-degree murder, and sentenced to 75 years to life. She spent 38 years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, where she became a leading inside organizer for the Bedford Hills Family Center and the partner program for incarcerated mothers. Governor Andrew Cuomo commuted her sentence in December 2016; she was paroled in April 2019.
From a second record of the same person, merged here so nothing is lost:
Clark emerged from late-1960s student organizing, joining Students for a Democratic Society and later becoming part of the Weather Underground milieu as it shifted toward underground activity and confrontational protest. After earlier arrests connected to that period, she later helped form May 19th Communist Organization, which aligned itself with armed revolutionary politics and, in the early 1980s, worked in concert with the Black Liberation Army.
Her most consequential arrest came after the October 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery in Rockland County, where she was captured as the driver of a getaway vehicle following a police chase. She was convicted of three counts of second-degree murder and robbery-related charges and received three consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences, serving decades at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. While incarcerated she became known for sustained prison-based work, including HIV/AIDS-related organizing and educational/support programming; in 2016, Andrew Cuomo commuted her sentence to make her parole-eligible, and she was granted parole in 2019.
