Biography
Tom Joyce, identified as a Toronto peace activist, was arrested during a December 30, 1981 antiwar blood-pouring action at the Pentagon. He refused release on personal recognizance and remained in the D.C. jail. A January 17, 1982 prisoner-support report confirms continued custody after a January 8 court appearance.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning December 30, 1983: January 21, 1984, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 22 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning December 30, 1983: January 21, 1984, adding the recorded completed custody duration of 22 days with elapsed-calendar-day counting. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Source: National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter, January 17, 1982, page 1. Custody is historical; an exact release date has not been verified.
Contemporary anti-nuclear custody report
The New London update reports Tom Joyce refused a guilty-plea deal, his charges were dropped January 29, 1982, and he was released that day after thirty days in jail. This is actual release and served time, not merely a sentence. The existing December 30, 1981 to January 29, 1982 interval and thirty-day counter are preserved.
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 11, April 15, 1982, original pages 5.
Contemporary 1983–1984 custody evidence
Tom Joyce was arrested during the Pentagon protest December 28, 1983 and arrested again December 30; the report expressly distinguishes that on the latter occasion he was held in custody. It says he was convicted the following week of blocking and actually served 22 days. No physical discharge day or 22-day continuous interval from the earlier December 28 arrest is invented. This is separate from the already-recorded December 1981–January 1982 detention.
The Nuclear Resister No. 23, February 12, 1984, original PDF 2 / printed 1.
Upstate Drone Action names Tom Joyce among eight people arrested at Hancock Airbase on June 20, 2019. Ed Kinane’s participant account says the group was handcuffed, held at the sheriff’s north station, then taken to the downtown Syracuse Justice Center, booked and placed in jail clothing. In the early evening, public defenders entered not-guilty pleas before a judge identified only as Murphy. All eight faced trespass and disorderly-conduct violations and misdemeanor obstruction of government administration. After returning to the holding cell they were physically released on their own recognizance sometime after 10:30 p.m. that same day. No conviction, sentence or numerical time-served total is established here; the scheduled June 25–26 hearings were prospective.
Upstate Drone Action and Ed Kinane, reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, June 20, 2019.
The Upstate Drone Action report and Tom Joyce’s first-person account describe Judge David Gideon dismissing the remaining violation charges against Tom Joyce and his co-defendant on April 28, 2022 in DeWitt, in the interest of justice. These charges arose from their June 2019 blockade at Hancock Air Base. Stand-by counsel Sujata Gibson is identified. This reports a later disposition of the existing 2019 prosecution, without supplying a physical jail admission, discharge or measured custody duration.
