Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armoured truck robbery and spent the latter part of her life helping people who had been imprisoned, has died at age 78, according to her family.
Boudin, who lived in New York City, died of cancer Sunday surrounded by family, including her life partner David Gilbert, who was released from prison last year for his own role in the infamous Brink's armored truck robbery.
"She, as a mother, offered not only unconditional love and pride, but also a model of how to live redemption and own responsibility for horrific mistakes without allowing them to entirely define her life," Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, told The Associated Press on Monday. 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.
She was sentenced to 20 years to life. In prison, she developed a program on parenting behind bars and helped write a handbook for inmates whose children are in foster care. She earned a master's degree and worked to help inmates with AIDS.
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