Frances Jalet-Cruz [SEP] place of death
in 1972 after his release from prison. She was then 61 years old and he was 32. They divorced six years later because of his return to heroin usage. Frances Jalet-Cruz died in Trumbull, Connecticut in December 1994 at the age of 84.
In media.
Her work with Fred Arispe Cruz was chronicled in:
- "Writ Writer", 2008 documentary
- "Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down", by Steve J. Martin and Sheldon Ekland-Olson.br The book's dedication
McAdams punished two inmates for the incident and kept Muslim prisoners at work in the fields six days a week instead of the five days assigned to other inmates. Within days a riot broke out in the Muslim cell block. 
This 1968 riot was the first at Ellis Unit and helped build solidarity among prisoners and gain the attention of outsiders. One of these outsiders was Frances Jalet (later Frances Jalet-Cruz, as Cruz and Jalet were married after his prison release), an attorney whom Cruz had contacted in 1967 after