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Shelley Douglass

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Washington
Time Imprisoned:
2 Months 1 Day
Support
Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Catholic Worker
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Biography

Co-founder of the Pacific Life Community and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. On Ash Wednesday, Feb 16, 1983, she walked the rail tracks into Bangor naval base with Karol Schulkin and Mary Grondin, posting Hiroshima/Nagasaki photographs on warhead-transport rails before being arrested.

Case

Charges: Federal trespass (anti-nuclear civil disobedience).
Arrested: Feb 15, 1983
Incarcerated: Feb 15, 1983
Released: Apr 16, 1983
Sentence: Cite-and-release / brief detention typical. Charges as recorded: Federal trespass (anti-nuclear civil disobedience). Most charges dismissed/cite-and-release.
Convicted: Mostly dismissed (Federal trespass)