Former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson will remain in prison after a California judge ruled that when she was released by the department of corrections in March she should have known that she was being released too early. Olson was released March 17 by mistake and re-arrested before she could fly home to Minnesota.

Corrections officials had mistakenly computed Olson's release date one year earlier than when she is scheduled to be released after serving half of a 14-year sentence. She is scheduled for release on March 17, 2009.

Olson's attorneys argued that corrections officials had no authority to re-arrest her after she was mistakenly paroled. But Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cecil they failed to show how officials acted illegally and Olson said she should have known it was a mistake.

Should Have Known It Was a Mistake

"She has not shown that she was ignorant of the facts," he wrote. "She was surely aware that she had been sentenced to a consecutive two-year term for her conviction in Sacramento County."

The judge also rejected Olson's claim that she was so severely harmed by her release and re-arrest that she should be set free.

"She was paroled for four days before being re-incarcerated," the judge wrote. "Although Petitioner had reunited with her husband, she had not had steady employment and successful reintegration into the community."

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