Biography
Joyce Ellwanger was a retired Milwaukee peace activist who crossed onto Fort Benning during the November 2002 School of the Americas Watch vigil. The action called for the closure of the U.S. Army school whose graduates had been implicated in killings, torture, and other abuses in Latin America. On January 28, 2003, a federal court sentenced Ellwanger to six months in prison.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning May 6, 2014: May 10, 2014, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 4 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning May 6, 2014: May 10, 2014, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 4 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Sources
The Nuclear Resister individually names Joyce Ellwanger among seven peace activists arrested at Volk Field in Wisconsin on November 12, 2019 during a protest mourning children killed by U.S. military drones. Juneau County officers handcuffed the seven and took them to the station in Mauston, where they were cited for trespassing and released. The report does not establish a jail admission or measured confinement duration; station processing is not treated as imprisonment.
The May 29, 2013 Volk Field report individually names Joyce Ellwanger among the five women arrested on May 28 after attempting to deliver a war-crimes indictment at the base. All five were taken in handcuffs to Juneau County jail, charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing, and released several hours later after processing. The account does not supply an individual release time or a completed whole-day duration. The reproduced indictment’s additional signers are not all identified as arrestees.
Joy First’s contemporary account individually names Joyce Ellwanger among seven activists arrested after entering Camp Williams/Volk Field on April 24, 2012 to request a meeting about drone warfare. Juneau County deputies took them to the county jail in Mauston, where they were charged with disorderly conduct, processed and released within three hours. The June 6 court appearance was still prospective. This is a separate short actual-jail episode from the May 28, 2013 action, without a source-measured whole-day duration. The source’s additional letter signers are not all named as arrestees.
The August 26, 2015 Volk Field report individually names Joyce Ellwanger among nine people arrested for disorderly conduct and given a trespass citation. The participant account describes handcuffing, transport to jail, processing and release within about four hours. The September 30 court appearance was prospective. The preceding eight-day peace walk was not imprisonment.
Sources: Contemporary report.
At her May 6, 2014 trial, Joyce Ellwanger refused the fine and chose jail. The judge allowed her to report after lunch. The later report says she received five days and was unexpectedly released one day early, confirming four days actually served without supplying an exact release day.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, No.174.
