sara jane olson back in prison

Freed SLA member Olson arrested again

By Todd Milbourn and Andy Furillo - tmilbourn@sacbee.com
Published 3:00 pm PDT Saturday, March 22, 2008

State corrections officials re-arrested Sara Jane Olson on Saturday - five days after she was released - and announced that they intend to keep her in prison for another year.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Oscar Hidalgo said that officials miscalculated Olson's sentence and gave her a year's more time off her term than she deserved.

"We're launching an investigation to prevent this from happening again," Hidalgo said.

Hidalgo said that Olson, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member who was convicted of killing Myrna Opsahl inside the lobby of a Carmichael bank in 1975 and of trying to bomb police cars in Los Angeles, was detained Friday night at Los Angeles International Airport as she was preparing to fly to Minnesota, where her family lives.

Treva Miller, a spokeswoman for LAX, said Olson was detained between 11 p.m. and midnight without incident.

She was officially arrested late Saturday morning after authorities examined her sentence, reassessed her time credits and determined that she still had more time to do.

Olson had been released Monday from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.