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LYNETTE "SQUEAKY" FROMME
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From the Sacramento Bee, December 3, 1985:
Manson Follower Good is Paroled
Wayne Wilson, Bee Staff Writer
and Ricardo Pimentel
Sandra Good was paroled from a federal prison in West Virginia Monday after agreeing not to associate with Charles Manson or any member of his infamous 'family' during her five-year parole period.
Good, 41, was paroled to an undisclosed location in New England. Rep. Vic Fazio, D-West Sacramento, said the U.S. Parole Commission assured him that the Manson follower will not be permitted to travel to California.
The parole, which lasts until Dec. 20, 1990, ended a 10-year prison term imposed for threats made against businessmen in the aftermath of Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme's Sacramento assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford.
Good was paroled to a group home in 'an undisclosed village in New England near the Canadian border,' Fazio said in Washington.
'The conditions of her parole are very specific,' he said. 'She will not be permitted to travel beyond 50 miles of her boarding house without the explicit permission of the parole commission and she will be forbidden to associate with any members of the Manson family.
'Good will not be coming to California.'
Fromme and Good, both longtime members of the Manson Family, lived as roommates on P Street when Fromme stalked the president with a loaded handgun in Capitol Park on Sept. 5, 1975.
After the publicity of Fromme's arrest had drawn attention to the Manson clan once more, Good mailed threatening letters to 171 business leaders she characterized as 'corporate polluters.'
Those threats resulted in her own conviction, and Good joined Fromme in federal prison. For most of the past 10 years, both women have been housed at$ the Federal Correctional Institution for Women at Alderson, W.Va., where they have worked as groundskeepers.
Good, 41, originally was to have been paroled in March, but she refused to accept the conditions of a parole that would have severed her attachment to Manson.
Plans to parole Good to Sacramento were changed after Fazio and police chiefs in the area protested.
She was then to be paroled to New Jersey and kept away from Northern California and Vacaville where Manson is serving a life sentence for the 1969 cult killings of actress Sharon Tate and eight others.
'Could you accept that condition . . . not to associate with the people you love, your family?' Good asked after rejecting the March parole. 'I couldn't.'
Just prior to her parole date last spring, Good wrote to several newspapers, saying she was not ready to be released.
She told The Bee in a telephone interview she had 'too much anger inside of me' to return to society. 'They're forcing me out against my will,' she said.
But things were different this time around, according to David Helman, executive assistant to the warden at Alderson.
'She has taken almost a completely opposite attitude from what she did last spring,' Helman said Monday.
'Last spring, she didn't want to go,' he said. 'But she has had a positive outlook. I think she sincerely wanted to find a suitable community and wanted to make a go of it.'
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