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Raphael Joseph

AKA: Kwesi
Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1970s
Time Imprisoned:
22 Years 3 Months 13 Days
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Raphael Joseph

Biography

Note to editors: This seems not to fit your definition of a political prisoner. He murdered eight white people in the Virgin Islands due to white resentment (which is political, but the murders could hardly be described as political). He did not recieve an abnormally long sentence (eight life sentences for murdering eight people), and if he did, he was not a political activist or anything; there was not anything inhnerently political about him or his case.

Case

Charges: Property Destruction Conspiracy
Arrested: Sep 8, 1972
Incarcerated: Sep 8, 1972
Released: Dec 21, 1994
Sentence: Life
Plead: Not-Guilty