Her supporters have long argued that Van Houten, a rootless and damaged child of a broken home, described by one of her original lawyers as being 'nutty as a fruitcake', has been entirely rehabilitated and was merely being kept behind bars as retribution.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12293085/She-teenage-hippy-met-Charles-Manson-Leslie-Van-Houten-freed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

I only became a rootless bohemian 22 years ago.

Source: https://vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-as-a-former-credit-suisse-risk-management-shlub-i-ask-is-dei-bringing-down-the-banking-system