willie wolff was an upper middle class kid, a physician's son from new milford, connecticut, who went to berkeley to try to be an archaeologist. but in short order he became radicalized and he became part of this group that spent its time going to vacaville prison, and he became friends with donald defreeze, joe remiro, and russ little. defreeze had a plan. >> back then all the jobs in the prison were done by a convict. defreeze knew enough from talking to the prisoners that manning the boilers is a job outside the fence. the first time they sent him to his job, he stayed there for a couple hours and he was gone. i'm not certain who picked him up. i always thought it was willie. when defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla.