Margaret Inness

Released
Full name:Margaret Innes
Date of birth:06. 11. 1944
Date of death:22. 08. 2021
Age:76† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1970s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement Camden 28 Catholic Left
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Biography

Margaret Mary Inness (November 6, 1944 – August 22, 2021) was a Boston native, a Regis College graduate, a former novice with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and a special-education teacher completing a master's degree at Boston College at the time of the Camden 28 indictment. Tried as one of the seventeen and acquitted on May 20, 1973, she went on to teach in Boston public schools for more than thirty years. Her married name was Margaret Inness Galvani. She died in Savannah, Georgia on August 22, 2021 — fifty years to the day after the raid.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records (the August 22, 1971 Camden, NJ draft-board raid).
Arrested: August 1971
Incarcerated: August 1971
Sentence: No sentence — acquitted with all seventeen trial defendants on May 20, 1973. About three weeks of pretrial custody in August-September 1971 under the collective bail strategy (most defendants refused release until everyone could make bail); individual release date unresolved.
Convicted: No — acquitted

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