A former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery has died at age 78.
Boudin had expressed remorse for the robbery, in which a guard and two police officers were killed north of New York City. Behind bars, the former ‘60s radical was described as a model prisoner. She was
Brink’s guard Peter Paige was killed in the robbery and two police officers, Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown, were killed when a getaway truck was stopped at a roadblock and gunmen burst from the back with weapons firing. After her release, she founded a program that provides health care for people returning from incarceration and co-founded the Center for Justice at Columbia University, which seeks alternatives to mass incarceration. She earned a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College and taught at the Columbia School of Social Work, according to the Center for Justice.
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