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Mutsuo Higuchi

Released
Date of birth:07. 06. 1925
Date of death:23. 09. 2013
Age:88† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Support
Anti-War Heart Mountain Draft Resistance
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Biography

Mutsuo Higuchi 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 29, 1942, followed by arrival at Heart Mountain on September 13, 1942. These are confinement-stage milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a change to the draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Aug 9, 1944
Sentenced: July 1945
Sentence: Three years
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington