Whilst incarcerated, she carried out HIV/AIDS activism, published in Social Justice, participated in a scheme to train service dogs for military veterans, assisted a chaplain and ran prenatal and infant support workshops for mothers.
Joe Clark worked as foreign editor of the Daily Worker newspaper until the family returned to Brooklyn, New York City, in 1953, living in Bensonhurst and then Flatbush.
After serving her sentence,[A] After her release, Clark worked at a bookshop and co-founded the May 19th Communist Organization (M19) with Boudin, Linda Evans and David Gilbert.
Those present included Kuwasi Balagoon, Boudin, Samuel Brown, Marilyn Jean Buck, Clark, Cecil Ferguson, David Gilbert, Edward Josephs, Susan Rosenberg, Mtajori Sandiata and Mutulu Shakur.
[9][5]: 154 When two guards took money from the Nanuet National Bank towards a Brink's armored car, the BLA members opened fire and killed one of them, Peter Paige.
Alongside her fellow defendants Balagoon and Gilbert, she refused to attend court except to make political statements and listened to proceedings from her detention cell.
[12] Alongside other female inmates, she carried out HIV/AIDS activism, protesting against the staff policy of isolating people with HIV and wearing gloves and masks when interacting with them.
With Boudin she published "Community of Women Organize Themselves to Cope with the AIDS Crisis: A Case Study from Bedford Hill Correctional Facility" in the academic journal Social Justice.
[13] She also participated in a scheme to train service dogs for military veterans, assisted a chaplain and founded prenatal and infant support workshops for mothers.
[15] Clark said in 1994 that she had "enormous regret, sorrow and remorse" about her part in the robbery and in 2002, she published a public apology in The Journal News to all the victims of the Family's violence.
[20] In 2016, governor of New York Andrew Cuomo recognised Clark's good behavior in prison and commuted her sentence, which meant that she would be eligible for parole the following year.
[21] At the seven hour long hearing, the three parole board members voted unanimously to deny her request for release, saying they had received thousands of letters from people who wanted her to serve a longer sentence for her crimes.