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Lynne Greenwald

Released
Date of birth:1950
Age:76
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:2010s
Inmate Number:#40672-086
State:Washington
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 6 Months 26 Days
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Plowshares Movement
Lynne Greenwald

Biography

Lynne Greenwald is a Pacific Northwest peace activist with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and the fifth defendant in the November 2, 2009 Disarm Now Plowshares action at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington — the storage site for the U.S. Pacific fleet's Trident D-5 nuclear warheads. Greenwald, alongside Bill 'Bix' Bichsel SJ, Steve Kelly SJ, Susan Crane, and Sister Anne Montgomery RSCJ, cut through three security fences, reached the inner perimeter, and waited to be arrested. She was convicted by a federal jury in December 2010 and sentenced in March 2011 to two months in federal prison plus four months of home confinement.

Case

Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson
Charges: Conspiracy; depredation of government property; trespass on a naval installation — Disarm Now Plowshares action at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor
Arrested: Nov 1, 2009
Incarcerated: Nov 1, 2009
Released: May 27, 2011
Sentence: 2 months federal prison plus 4 months home confinement Verdict as recorded: Yes — federal jury verdict, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, December 13, 2010
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: West Virginia