Biography
Teresa Grady is an Ithaca Catholic Worker and one of three Grady sisters (with Clare and Mary Anne) at the heart of the U.S. anti-drone movement at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in upstate New York. She has been arrested repeatedly for line-crossing at Hancock and has served multiple short jail sentences for trespass and contempt arising from those actions.
The contemporary report documents a separate custody episode: Four months imprisonment; $150 contempt fine.
The Nuclear Resister individually names Teresa Grady among eighteen people arrested on November 30, 2023 after blocking entrances to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, demanding U.S. signature of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The report states that the eighteen were charged with disorderly conduct, processed within a couple of hours and released with a December 20 court date. The court date was prospective; no subsequent outcome, jail admission or complete day of imprisonment is inferred. The Nuclear Resister, December 1, 2023.
Teresa Grady was physically released from federal prison May 19, 2006, according to the contemporary St. Patrick’s Four follow-up. This is her existing January 2006 sentence-custody episode for the March 17, 2003 recruiting-office protest. Her existing January 27 intake is preserved. The report establishes this physical release but does not supply a comprehensive total across her other imprisonments. The Nuclear Resister No.142, July24,2006, page6.
The contemporary St. Patrick’s Four report states that Teresa Grady was sentenced on January 27, 2006 and that each of the four defendants was taken into custody immediately. The July follow-up explicitly dates her physical release May 19, 2006. These endpoints establish 112 elapsed days for that existing case. Sources: The Nuclear Resister No.140, February 12, 2006, printed page 1; No.142, July 24, 2006, printed page 6.
The separate legacy entry labelled cumulative weeks across multiple short sentences does not establish uninterrupted custody from October 2012 through December 2018 or a verified aggregate of 2,258 days. Nicholas Kusnetz’s eyewitness account describes Teresa driving to a Seneca Lake protest in May 2016 and the protesters being released later that morning. The dates and combined time for her other shorter stays remain unresolved; the 2012–2018 dates do not describe one uninterrupted prison term. Source: When protest becomes Sacrament: Grady sisters heed a higher call, August 12, 2016.
