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Los Angeles: Just days after her release on parole, a former 1970s radical was headed back to prison to serve at least one more year after corrections officials said clerical error resulted in her early release.
Criticism over the early release from prison last Monday of Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who lived as a fugitive for years in Minnesota, spurred a review of her sentence and the timing of her parole, Scott Kernan, the Chief Deputy Secretary for the California Department of Corrections, said.
The review revealed that a 2004 miscalculation led to Olson being released a year too early.
Olson, 61, will be returned to the same prison in central California that she walked out of Monday and will not be eligible for release until March 17, 2009, he said.
Olson's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, called her client's return to custody "ridiculous".
"As far as we're concerned they're bowing to political pressure and they are wrong," Holley said.
The SLA started in 1973 when no more than a dozen white, college-educated children from middle-class families adopted a seven-headed snake as their symbol and an ex-convict as their leader.
Their slogan: "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people."
The group became best known for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, who later joined the group on her own accord.
Olson was arrested 1999 and pleaded guilty of attempted bombing of police cars and second-degree murder.
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