In December 2006, officials transferred Hawkins to Folsom State Prison, where, he said, the book was not initially confiscated. When he was transferred to Donovan State Prison, he was also allowed to keep it. Lancaster prison officials allowed Hawkins to keep the book. Jackson completed the book, detailing his political theories and ideologies, days before he was killed at San Quentin prison in 1971 during an alleged escape attempt. Michael Hawkins received the copy of “Blood in My Eye” from his mother in 2003 when he was incarcerated at Lancaster State Prison. Jackson was a famous Black Panther inmate who in 1966 co-founded the Black Guerilla Family prison gang and wrote books in prison. Jackson book “Blood in My Eye,” a federal judge has ruled. Officials at Folsom State Prison in California did not violate the First Amendment rights of an inmate when they confiscated a photocopy of the George L.
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