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George Lester Jackson was one of the Soledad Brothers, inmates charged in California after the January 1970 killing of Correctional Officer John Mills at Soledad. This file concerns a 1971 FBI preliminary civil rights inquiry into allegations in a federal civil action that Jackson and other inmate plaintiffs were denied constitutional rights in the pending criminal case. The records include San Francisco airtels, a report, cover pages, and FD-302 interviews with California prison officials and inmates at the Correctional Training Facility. The interviews focus on defense access to inmate witnesses, inmate questionnaires about whether they wanted to speak with defense counsel, transfers out of Y Wing, and claims about intimidation, parole consequences, or special treatment for state witnesses. The inquiry was requested through federal officials including U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr. and the Civil Rights Division.

FBI file number: 44-HQ-47984 | Documents span: 1971 | Released in 5 parts
Names in this file: George Lester Jackson, John Mills, James L. Browning Jr., Jerris Leonard, Evelle Younger, Jeri Enomoto
Subjects: civil rights, Soledad Brothers, prison investigation, inmate witnesses, California prisons