18 Facts About Susan Rosenberg

Susan Lisa Rosenberg was born on October 5,1955 and is an American activist, writer, advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights.

Susan Rosenberg had been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur and in the 1981 Brink's robbery that resulted in the deaths of two police officers and a guard, although she was never charged in either case.

Susan Rosenberg spent 16 years in prison, during which she became a poet, author, and AIDS activist.

Susan Rosenberg's sentence was commuted to time served by President Bill Clinton on January 20,2001, his final day in office.

Susan Rosenberg was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan.

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Susan Rosenberg's father was a dentist and her mother a theatrical producer.

Susan Rosenberg attended the progressive Walden School and later went to Barnard College at Columbia University.

Susan Rosenberg left Barnard and became a drug counselor at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx, eventually becoming licensed in the practice of Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

Susan Rosenberg worked as an anti-drug counselor and acupuncturist at health centers in Harlem, including the Black Acupuncture Advisory of North America.

Susan Rosenberg became active in feminist causes, and worked in support of the Puerto Rican independence movement and the fight against the FBI's COINTELPRO program.

Susan Rosenberg was charged with a role in bombings at the US Capitol, the US National War College and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association building, but these charges were dropped as part of a plea deal by other members of her group.

Susan Rosenberg's lawyers contended that, had the case not been politically charged, Rosenberg would have received a five-year sentence.

Susan Rosenberg was one of the first two inmates of the High Security Unit, an isolation unit in the basement of the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Kentucky.

Susan Rosenberg was transferred to various prisons around the country, including FCI Coleman, Florida, FCI Dublin, California and, finally, FCI Danbury, Connecticut.

Susan Rosenberg's sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton on January 20,2001, his last day in office, to the more than 16 years' time served.

Susan Rosenberg's commutation produced a wave of criticism by police and New York elected officials.

Susan Rosenberg continued her work as an anti-prison activist, and taught literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

In 2011, Susan Rosenberg published a memoir of her time in prison called, An American Radical: A Political Prisoner In My Own Country.