How exactly is anyone but the prison industry served by keeping her behind bars?

If you remove all of the cult notoriety from this case, it is quite likely that someone with convictions on the same charges as Leslie would have been released by now. We can argue whether or not that should matter or debate her culpability but I think if you were to pull cases just based on the statutes she was…

Leslie Van Houten’s case puts the lie to any objectivity in the American justice system. She is in prison only because she is infamously associated with Charles Manson and the Manson Family killings. Reading her history objectively, she should have been released decades ago. Any other inmate (and thousands who have…