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Theresa Cusimano

Released
Date of birth:1969
Age:57
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#93611-020
State:Colorado
Time Imprisoned:
5 Months 28 Days
Support
Anti-War Catholic Worker School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch)
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Biography

Theresa Cusimano is a Denver, Colorado-based Catholic Worker and longtime peace activist who has been arrested repeatedly for SOA Watch line-crossings at Fort Benning, Georgia in protest of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), as well as for Plowshares-style actions at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. She served a six-month federal sentence following her 2007 SOA Watch line-crossing.

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 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.

Case

Federal Medical Center, Carswell
Charges: Federal trespass on a U.S. Army installation - line-crossing onto Fort Benning, Georgia at the November 2011 annual SOA Watch vigil in protest of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). The annual vigil commemorates the December 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper Elba Ramos, and her daughter Celina at the University of Central America in San Salvador by Salvadoran soldiers trained at the SOA.
Arrested: Nov 19, 2011
Sentenced: Jan 12, 2012
Incarcerated: Jan 12, 2012
Released: Jul 10, 2012
Sentence: 6 months federal prison. Held across five federal facilities during transfers; released from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas on July 11, 2012. BOP register number 93611-020. Verdict as recorded: Yes - bench verdict before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Hyles, Middle District of Georgia (Columbus), January 13, 2012
Judge: Stephen Hyles (U.S. Magistrate Judge)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Texas