Helen LaValley

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1990s
State:Michigan
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement
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Biography

Helen was a Catholic peace activist and Plowshares disarmament participant arrested in Michigan and held at the Bay County Jail in Saginaw. Convicted of federal sabotage and depredation of government property. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

A separate Wurtsmith Air Force Base protest led to her detention on August 4, 1990. The Sixth Circuit records sentencing on January 17, 1991 to twelve months probation and a $2,000 fine, not imprisonment. This is kept separate from the older directory-listed case; neither probation nor another defendant’s jail sentence is treated as her time served.

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Cases

Bay County Jail
Charges: Sabotage, depredation of government property — Plowshares action
Sentence: Federal prison term
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Michigan
Charges: Wrongful entry onto Wurtsmith Air Force Base, 18 USC 1382; August 4, 1990 protest
Arrested: Aug 4, 1990
Sentenced: Jan 17, 1991
Sentence: Twelve months probation and $2,000 fine; sentence stayed pending appeal
Judge: Robert H. Cleland
Convicted: Yes

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