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who hijacked a commercial plane and forced it to travel to Cuba back in 1984, was handed a 20-year prison sentence by a Florida federal judge last week, according to Yahoo News.

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The now-57-year-old, who has spent the last 30 years in Cuba, returned to these shores last November. Potts spent 13 years in a Cuban prison for his crime, calling it one of the “worst hell holes on the planet,” according to his lawyer, Robert Berube.  “There were no bathroom facilities. There were plastic sheets on the beds because urine drips down through the ceilings.” Read More at  newsone.com

Ex-Black Panther Receives 20 Years For Hijacking Plane To Cuba 30 Years Ago  was originally published on ksoul945.com