Lynne Purvis

Released
Gender:Female
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#0353397
State:Florida
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 2 Days
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Biography

Lynne Purvis is an environmental activist jailed after an Everglades-area power-plant blockade. Following release, she spoke about the protest, her trial and conditions in Palm Beach County custody.

The Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition’s February 2009 archive identifies the power-plant blockade arrests as February 18, 2008, the trial convictions as December 2008, and Judge Laura Johnson as the sentencing judge. Purvis’s thirty-day sentence was imposed February 2, 2009. The February 24 release estimate was prospective, not confirmation of her actual discharge.

PBCEC, February 2009 archive, February 13 solidarity report and February 19 prison letter/update.

Case

Charges: Unlawful assembly, trespassing and resisting an officer without violence
Arrested: Feb 18, 2008
Sentenced: Feb 2, 2009
Incarcerated: Feb 2, 2009
Released: 2009
Sentence: Sentenced and jailed February 2, 2009 for thirty days after the February 2008 blockade. A co-defendant reported her continued confinement; a March interview confirms release. The prospective February 24 release estimate is not entered as an actual release date.
Judge: Laura Johnson
Convicted: Yes

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