Former Symbionese Liberation Army member released from prison

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A state Department of Corrections spokesman says former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson has been released from prison after serving time for trying to bomb police cars.

Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, walked out of the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.

In 2001, Olson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted bombings of police cars in 1975 for the SLA, the urban guerrilla group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

Prisons spokesman Bill Sessa says "Like all inmates in her circumstance, she earned time for her good behavior in prison, she wasn't treated any differently than anybody else."

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