Jane Alpert and David Hughey demonstrating outside the Women’s House of Detention. Photo by Steve Rose. I was expected to stay in the House of D. for quite a lot longer than the week I spent there. When the bail on our charges was lowered to $20,000 on two of us and $50,000 on the other two, it blew our minds to think of the Panther 21, in jail on no evidence since April 1st on $100,000 bail each which the state had refused again and again to lower. Two of the Panther women arrested on those charges are still in the House of D., Joan Bird and Afeni Shakur, known to her sisters as “Power,” and they’ve done some far-out things in their 7 months in incarceration. Although we were on different floors, couldn’t see each other and could communicate only with great difficulty and danger, I heard about Power and Joan constantly from the sisters on my corridor since every inmate knows who they are after a week. What I heard most in the House of D. was “Hey, Conspiracy, I know you had nothing to do with those bombs, but if you can find that girlfriend of yours who split [Pat Swinton], tell her to come back and blow this motherfucker up!” —Jane Alpert in Rat Subterranean News (1969)
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Jane Alpert and David Hughey demonstrating outside the Women’s House of Detention. Photo by Steve Rose.

I was expected to stay in the House of D. for quite a lot longer than the week I spent there. When the bail on our charges was lowered to $20,000 on two of us and $50,000 on the other two, it blew our minds to think of the Panther 21, in jail on no evidence since April 1st on $100,000 bail each which the state had refused again and again to lower.

Two of the Panther women arrested on those charges are still in the House of D., Joan Bird and Afeni Shakur, known to her sisters as “Power,” and they’ve done some far-out things in their 7 months in incarceration. Although we were on different floors, couldn’t see each other and could communicate only with great difficulty and danger, I heard about Power and Joan constantly from the sisters on my corridor since every inmate knows who they are after a week.

What I heard most in the House of D. was “Hey, Conspiracy, I know you had nothing to do with those bombs, but if you can find that girlfriend of yours who split [Pat Swinton], tell her to come back and blow this motherfucker up!” —Jane Alpert in Rat Subterranean News (1969)

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