Ken Kengi Shinta

AKA: Kengi Shinta
Released
Date of birth:09. 09. 1921
Date of death:26. 12. 1960
Age:39† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
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Biography

Ken Kengi Shinta 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 McNeil Island in Washington.

Forced-removal chronology

The institutional biography records confinement at Santa Anita Assembly Center on May 28, 1942, followed by arrival at Heart Mountain on September 10, 1942. These are confinement-stage milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a change to the draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records that Ken Kengi Shinta was pardoned by President Harry Truman on December 24, 1947. This pardon is distinct from the earlier physical release from prison. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Apr 7, 1944
Sentenced: June 1944
Released: July 1946
Sentence: 3 years imposed. Served time at McNeil Island in Washington. Released in July 1946.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington

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