Her son with Gilbert, Chesa Boudin, said his mother devoted herself to others well after her cancer diagnosis in 2015.

Boudin kept a low profile after her release and continued to work on behalf of inmates and former inmates. She was released on parole in 2003, a move that infuriated some relatives and friends of the three men slain in the botched Brink’s robbery.

Behind bars, the former ‘60s radical was described as a model prisoner. Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery and spent the latter part of her life helping people who had been imprisoned, has died at age 78, according to her family.īoudin, who lived in New York City, died of cancer Sunday surrounded by family, including her life partner David Gilbert, who wasreleased from prison last year for his own role in the infamous Brink’s armored truck robbery.īoudin had expressed remorse for the robbery, in which a guard and two police officers were killed north of New York City.