Editing Sara Jane Olson (section)

==Incarceration and release==
The state Board of Prison Terms had scrapped Olson's original sentence in October 2002 in exchange for a longer 14-year sentence, saying Olson's crimes had the potential for great violence and targeted multiple victims. She appealed, and in July 2004, a judge said there was "no analysis" of how the state Board of Prison Terms had decided 14 years was appropriate and threw the sentence out. Her sentence was converted to five years and four months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/07/13_helmsm_sarajanesentence/|title=Sara Jane Olson's 14-year prison sentence thrown out|website=Minnesota Public Radio News|first=Marisa|last=Helms|date=July 13, 2004}}</ref>

The state <!-- or federal case? -->appealed and an appeals court panel restored her full 14-year sentence as of April 12, 2007. It ruled that a lower court did not follow procedure when it allowed Olson to appeal.<ref name="marieclaire.com"/><ref>{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630115925/http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1120946.html|archive-date=2007-06-30|url=http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1120946.html|title=Sentence restored for Sara Jane Olson, former SLA member|newspaper=Star Tribune|date=April 14, 2007}}</ref>

Olson served her time at the [[Central California Women's Facility]] in [[Chowchilla, California|Chowchilla]]. Her custody status was "Close A",<ref name="A Life on Hold">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-olson14aug14,0,4408160.story?page=2&coll=la-home-headlines|title=A Life on Hold in California Prison|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 14, 2006}}</ref> which is reserved for inmates requiring the most supervision. This status limited her privileges and required that she be counted seven times a day. It also prevented her from seeking relocation to a facility closer to her home. David Nickerson, Olson's attorney, said that her status reflected the Department of Corrections' view that she was a potential flight risk.<ref name="A Life on Hold" />

Olson's husband and three daughters continued to support her during her imprisonment; they took turns visiting her frequently in Chowchilla.<ref name="marieclaire.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/Mom-Secret-8|title=When Mom Has A Secret: An Exclusive Report on a Family Torn Apart|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234138/http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/Mom-Secret-8|archive-date=September 26, 2007|first=Tara|last=McKelvey|website=Marie Claire|date=June 2007}}</ref>

In a 2007 interview with ''[[Marie Claire]]'' magazine (published by [[Hearst Corporation]]), Olson's 23-year-old daughter Emily Peterson dismissed her mother's radical past with the SLA. She said of her mother, "She lived in Berkeley. It was kind of normal... I always tell people she wasn't a terrorist. She was an urban guerrilla."<ref name="McKelvey">{{cite web|url=http://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a507/mom-secret/|title=When Mom Has A Secret: An Exclusive Report on a Family Torn Apart|first=Tara|last=McKelvey|website=Marie Claire|date=June 2007}}</ref> Olson never publicly expressed remorse or regret for her actions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Sara-Jane-Olson-knows-no-remorse-1078618.php|title=Opinion: Sara Jane Olson knows no remorse|first=Kimberly|last=Mills|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=January 28, 2002}}</ref>

===Release from prison and rearrest===
Olson was released on parole from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on March 17, 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sara-Jane-Olson-released-from-prison-3290801.php | title=Sara Jane Olson released from prison | first=Steve | last=Rubenstein | date=March 22, 2008 | work=San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref> For five days, she stayed at her mother's home in Palmdale and spent some time hiking with her husband.<ref name="sfgate.com">{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/24/BA26VP644.DTL&type=newsbayarea | title=SLA's Olson will fight return to state prison | first=John | last=Coté | date=March 24, 2008 | work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref>

On March 21, 2008, she was rearrested when it was decided that she had been mistakenly released a year early from prison due to a miscalculation by the parole board.<ref name="CNN">{{cite news | url = http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/22/olson.custody/index.html | title ='70s radical-turned-housewife back in prison |publisher=[[CNN]] | date = March 22, 2008 | access-date = 2008-03-22 }}</ref> Her attorney claimed that the action was politically motivated.<ref name="sfgate.com"/> Olson was taken back into custody by the California Department of Corrections and placed in the [[California Institution for Women]] in [[Corona, California|Corona]] for another year.<ref name="Return">{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Harlow |title=March 23: A return to prison, not St. Paul |url=http://www.startribune.com/local/16927196.html |work=[[Star Tribune]] |location=Minneapolis |date=March 23, 2008 |access-date=March 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321173018/http://www.startribune.com/local/16927196.html |archive-date=March 21, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

===Release and parole===
After serving seven years in prison, about half her sentence, Olson was released on March 17, 2009, to serve her parole in Minnesota. Police unions in both Minnesota and California protested the arrangement, saying that they believed her parole should be served in California, where her crimes were committed.<ref name="Associated">{{cite news |first=Don |last=Thompson |title=California due to release 1970s radical Olson |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCvqJ7PjTjtpMIEhEaYSuR4dm0SQD96UL2D01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321231458/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCvqJ7PjTjtpMIEhEaYSuR4dm0SQD96UL2D01|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 21, 2009|publisher=Associated Press |date=March 15, 2009 |access-date=March 15, 2009}}</ref>

In a letter to California Governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Minnesota Governor [[Tim Pawlenty]] also protested Olson being allowed to return to Minnesota.<ref name="Letter">{{cite news |title=Document: letter from MN Gov. Pawlenty to CA Gov. Schwarzenegger |url=http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/3-16-09+Gov.+Pawlenty+letter+to+Gov.+Schwarzenegger.pdf?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU |work=[[Star Tribune]] |location=Minneapolis |date=March 17, 2009 }}</ref>