Assata is sent to Alderson-to serve time in an isolated section of the maximum security federal prison-where she encountered members of the white racist aryan sisterhood, two Manson family women, and “n-word lovers”, as well as (after the isolated section was declared unconstitutional and forced to close) Lolita Lebron, a well known Puerto Rican political activist who had sacrificed everything in her quest for Puerto Rican liberation.