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Sandra Roland

AKA: Sandra Gayle Roland
Released
Full name:Sandra Gayle Roland
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
Inmate Number:#00832-000
State:Kentucky
Time Imprisoned:
7 Months 14 Days
Support
Anti-Imperialism
Sandra Roland

Biography

Sandra Roland was a John Brown Anti-Klan Committee grand-jury resister imprisoned for civil contempt in1985. The contemporary Breakthrough directory lists her in Lexington's women's unit. This is not evidence of confinement in the later High Security Unit, which opened in1986. Her existing identified portrait is retained.

Lexington women's unit, not the later HSU

The original 1985directory was fully visually reviewed. The primary HSU litigation findings establish the later unit's opening. BOP confirms the civil-contempt record but supplies no discharge day. The earlier independently documented endpoints and existing portrait are preserved.

The November 1984 John Brown Anti-Klan Committee biography identifies Sandra Gayle Roland by her full name and describes her feminist, prisoner-advocacy and anti-death-penalty work. At that point the Washington grand-jury investigation threatened her with imprisonment for refusing to cooperate; that account does not date her later actual confinement.

Stop the Grand Jury!, John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, November 1984, PDF page 3; Stop the Grand Jury!, John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, November 1984, PDF page 13.

Case

Charges: Civil contempt for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury
Incarcerated: Feb 19, 1985
Released: Oct 3, 1985
Sentence: Breakthrough Spring/Summer1985 physical54 individually lists Sandra Roland00832-000 at Lexington Women's Unit. The authorized exact-number BOP query confirms civil contempt but displays CIVCNTMPT instead of a release date; that sentinel is not a date. Existing February19 and October3,1985 endpoints are retained from the earlier audit's individual LibertadNovember1985 physical2 evidence, not newly verified by BOP. The High Security Unit institution association is removed: primary Baraldini691FSupp432 finds that unit opened inOctober1986, after this1985episode. Ordinary Lexington custody is distinguished from HSU confinement.