Biography
James Richard Sauder was a Catholic pacifist jailed for seven days after an October 1981 Arkansas missile-silo protest. After another silo protest in Missouri on April 13, 1982, he remained jailed and received six months. A January 1983 follow-up confirms transfer to Arkansas in early October and a further five-month, twenty-nine-day revocation term imposed by Magistrate Robert Faulkner.
James Richard Sauder was a Catholic pacifist jailed for seven days after an October 1981 Arkansas missile-silo protest. After another silo protest in Missouri on April 13, 1982, he remained jailed and received six months. A January 1983 follow-up confirms transfer to Arkansas in early October and a further five-month, twenty-nine-day revocation term imposed by Magistrate Robert Faulkner. One year probation; seven days actual pretrial jail custody.
The May 14, 2010 contemporary report identifies James Richard Sauder by his full name and connects his earlier Arkansas and Missouri missile-silo protests to his April 15 arrest inside a nuclear missile silo near Parshall, North Dakota. It states that he remained jailed from that arrest. The September follow-up reports his July 23 conviction in Minot, a sentence of time served described as 100 days, and his physical release that day. The dated endpoints span 99 elapsed date-days; the source’s reported 100-day actual time-served count is retained separately without claiming a precise number of hours or assuming why the counts differ. He spent most of this stay on federal hold at the Heart of America facility in Rugby, North Dakota. This is separate from his earlier 1981 and 1982 imprisonments.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, May 14, 2010; The Nuclear Resister Nos.158/159, September 20, 2010, printed page 3. The April 26, 2010 federal court order, case 4:10-mj-028 independently confirms the full-name defendant and military-trespass proceeding; its pretrial magistrate is not assumed to be the later sentencing judge.
