Congressman Leo Ryan used a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate

Amazing and weird fact about USA history: 

Congressman Leo Ryan, who was murdered while investigating Jonestown in 1978, had a record of directly looking into his constituents' concerns. As an assemblyman, he investigated the conditions of California prisons in 1970 by using a pseudonym to enter Folsom Prison as an inmate.

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