Frank Morikazu Matsuura

Released
Date of birth:03. 11. 1908
Date of death:09. 10. 1967
Age:58† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Time Imprisoned:
3 Years
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
Frank Morikazu Matsuura

Biography

Frank Morikazu Matsuura was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. His widow recalled his refusal as a protest against the denial of civil liberties and due process.

1942 forced-removal chronology

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center on April 28, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on October 30, 1942. These are dated confinement milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a revision of the later draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Mar 27, 1944
Sentenced: June 1944
Sentence: 3 years imposed. Served time at the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. Actual release date has not been established.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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