Biography
Mike Burgener was a twenty-year-old prisoner at San Quentin whose family-support appeal appeared in Workers World on June 13, 1975. The appeal states that he challenged California’s indeterminate sentencing practice in court and testified for other prisoners, and alleges retaliation through glass placed in his food, weapons planted in his cell and threats. It reports an altercation in which two guards and Burgener were wounded. Actual imprisonment is explicit. The account describes imprisonment for over a year but also two years in an adjustment center; these inconsistent rounded durations do not establish a reliable admission date or completed total. No release date or underlying conviction is supplied. Source: https://www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/ww1975-0613-v17n24.pdf#page=11
