Biography
Sister Carol Gilbert OP is a Dominican nun of the Grand Rapids Dominicans and longtime resident of Jonah House in Baltimore, where she lived in community with the late Sister Ardeth Platte and the late Philip Berrigan. With Platte and Sister Jackie Hudson she carried out the October 6, 2002 Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares II action against a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo near New Raymer, Colorado, in which the three women hammered on the silo cover and poured their own blood as a literal enactment of beating swords into plowshares.
A federal jury in Denver convicted them in April 2003. On July 25, 2003, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn sentenced Sister Carol — then 56 years old — to 30 months in federal prison plus three years of supervised release and $3,082 in restitution. She served at FCI Alderson in West Virginia. After her 2005 release she continued Plowshares and anti-nuclear organizing alongside Sister Ardeth at Jonah House, including subsequent prosecutions for additional civil-disobedience actions at U.S. military installations. She remains active in the Plowshares and Jonah House communities.
