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I'm in my basement, in North Seattle. I'm on the machine because I wanted to see if I could find an old newspaper article online about Donald M., who bust out of KCJ, when I was but a lad, in a work release unit there.
I'm 51 now, but back in ...1980?, I think that was the year, the KCJ was still in the old King Co. Courthouse building, built around WWI, that the modern one, built in the '80s is connected by skybridge to now.
It had dayrooms and cells of bars and everything was steel-not glass. Nearly everyone walked to chow in a chowhall, unlike the current setup. I think it was on the top three or four floors, with the very top floor being the old infirmary.
I spent short times there more than once, but the time D. M. busted out, I was in work release. We were locked down in an extraordinary way, with unusual force. it had not been unusual to be locked down from time to time for various misbehaviors and contrabands, but this was different. No one had ever seen the storm troopers buzzin' around like that!
We were seperate, and on a different floor from the jail proper, but up in the jail there was a room for visiting where you were in booths behind glass, and talked through a telephone receiver handset, that was controlled by a guard in a bullet proof booth. There was a seperate door for attorneys, and inmates, and regular visitors. That guard was supposed to go down with his ship before he ever gave in, but someone hadn't followed some protocall and they breached his little booth.
D. M. was a fugitive, wanted in Louisianna for murder. Plural, I think. Connected to A. D. and Co.(Black Panthers) he was being held in KCJ and about to be extradited. Some of his friends came to Seattle in twin mustangs, heavily armed, and they had it coordinated so he was there in that visiting area when one of his people used a gun that was smuggled to that area- through the attorney door? I can't remember now its been so long, I found this web site before I was able to look up the old article.
Anyway, the guard was shot and killed, and I didn't find out about it until later because of our lockdown and blackout. M's people, with M, shot their way out of the courthouse and were pretty quickly killed and captured, themselves, except for one or two of them who were on the run a little while longer.
I served my little time and consider that I'm fortunate to still be here on earth. Life is precious, and but for the grace of God,etc., etc.
Sorry if that's off color, but I'll always remember it.
Does anybody remember that?
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