Biography
Jane Hosking crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 6 months in federal custody.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia (now Fort Moore), site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
Separate May 1997 overnight detention
The May 11, 1997 Mother’s Day article names Jane Hosking,29, and Ida Cunningham,22, as taken into Ashland County custody after refusing to identify themselves, jailed overnight and accused of obstructing an officer. This is distinct from Hosking’s later 2006 School of the Americas imprisonment. The article separates these two actual jailings from trespass citations issued to other demonstrators. It does not give an exact release time/day or final disposition; possible 90 days/$10,000 is statutory exposure, not an imposed sentence. The dated age supports only a 1967/1968 birth-year research window and is not used to overwrite the existing birth field. A source-identified cover photograph is preserved with its full caption, not automatically installed as a new portrait.
Nukewatch Pathfinder, Summer 1997, original PDF page 2, printed page 1. Original complete article and all five issue pages visually reviewed.
The Summer 1998 Pathfinder individually reports 55 days actually served in Ashland County Jail for refusing fines after her August 9, 1997 Project ELF arrest and February 26, 1998 trial. Jail intake and discharge dates are not printed. Source.
