Biography
Kevin was an Irish republican prisoner held at the Federal Detention Center in Pleasanton, California on US federal charges relating to support for the IRA. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Kevin Artt was individually listed under Irish Political Prisoners in Breakthrough’s Summer 1995 directory, held at FDC Pleasanton in Dublin, California, under prisoner number 33020-198. This is an attributed contemporary political-prisoner identification and actual custody location. The directory supplies no charge, conviction, admission, physical release or completed duration, and none is inferred.
Kevin Artt was individually listed under Irish Political Prisoners in Breakthrough’s Summer 1995 directory, held at FDC Pleasanton in Dublin, California, under prisoner number 33020-198. This is an attributed contemporary political-prisoner identification and actual custody location. The directory supplies no charge, conviction, admission, physical release or completed duration, and none is inferred. Contemporaneously listed as an Irish political prisoner at FDC Pleasanton, Dublin, California, in Summer 1995. Actual custody observation only; endpoints, legal charge and final duration unstated.
The September 1996 Irish Department of Foreign Affairs record identifies Kevin Barry Artt and dates his US arrest to June 1992. It describes extradition proceedings and continuing freedom on bail in 1996. The bail-order day does not independently establish his physical release, and no admission or completed duration is inferred.
The Ninth Circuit records Artt’s release on bail on January 10, 1996, distinguishing his date from Brennan and Kirby. An August 11, 1997 order directed his committal to U.S. custody; the exact date that the order was executed is not established here. The author’s source-captioned courthouse photograph identifies October 16, 1998 as the day of actual release, after the release order the previous day. These periods remain separate; unknown admission days and numeric totals are not inferred.
Sources: 106 F.3d 855; 972 F. Supp. 1253; Dan Lawton gallery, Polaris Images release photograph.
