Police don't want Olson in St. Paul

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Police don't want Olson in St. Paul

By CURT BROWN, Star Tribune

March 12, 2009

The president of St. Paul's police union followed his Los Angeles counterpart Wednesday, asking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to force Sara Jane Olson to serve her parole in his state instead of back home in St. Paul. Despite the police unions' concerns, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Minnesota lacks the authority to refuse to accept Olson's parole supervision under an interstate agreement governing such cases.

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Olson, 62, is scheduled to be released from a central California prison Tuesday. She has served seven years for plotting to bomb Los Angeles police cars and participating in a bank robbery in 1975 during which a customer was killed. Minnesota corrections officials have already approved Olson's request to serve her parole in St. Paul. California officials have not yet made a final decision, but a year ago both states agreed Olson could serve parole in St. Paul. Five days after her release last March, Olson was rearrested at the airport preparing to fly home. California officials cited a clerical error for letting her out a year early and sent her back to prison.

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Corrections officials in Minnesota and California say interstate agreement routinely allows prisoners released in one state to serve parole in another. They say offenders typically have greater success making the transition from prison when they're near family and friends. "Basic common sense says, in parole situations, people should serve in communities where they are most likely to succeed," said Stephen Cooper, a local attorney who helped Olson a decade ago.

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Screw the St. Paul Police Union. She has paid her dues to society. More than million others.