Biography
Nancy Gwin — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 90 days in federal custody.
Each November on the anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
In her first-person account Nancy Gwin states that, following her January 2010 conviction for the previous November’s Fort Benning protest, she had been imprisoned at Danbury since March 8. The contemporary release update explicitly dates her physical release September 3, 2010. Those dates span 179 elapsed days. This is a separate stay from her earlier protest imprisonment. The issue describes six months in its release update but four months in the editorial note beneath her essay; those conflicting rounded descriptions do not replace the individually reported admission and release dates. Sources: The Nuclear Resister Nos.158/159, September 20, 2010, printed pages 4 and 12.
