Editor's Note, Update Jan 2002: This list of imprisoned activists is updated from the list and articles published in NR #125-6 (Dec 3 2001). People referred to as behind bars in those articles who are not listed here have since been released. For more information, contact the Nuclear Resister or subscribe and receive up-to-date information when the next issue is published.

THE WOMEN AND MEN LISTED BELOW ARE, AT PRESS TIME, IMPRISONED FOR ACTS OF NUCLEAR AND WAR RESISTANCE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE NUCLEAR RESISTER, P.O. BOX 43383, TUCSON, AZ 85733 - nukeresister@igc.org

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Name ID# (if needed) (sentence) prison or support address (action & date - in date or out date if known)

Please be sure to include the prisoner's ID# in the address.

IMPRISONED NUCLEAR RESISTERS, USA:

Scott Galindez #87333-012 (90 days - in 10/29/01)
Metropolitan Detention Center, POB 1500, Los Angeles, CA 90053.

Elizabeth Wyrsch #20407-112 (awaiting probation violation hearing, in 12/4/01)
Metropolitan Detention Center, POB 1500, Los Angeles, CA 90053

Brian Buckley #1509572 (awaiting probation violation hearing, in 12/11/01)
Kern County Jail, 17645 Industrial Farm Rd., Bakersfield, CA 93308.
(Trespass by backcountry occupation of Vandenberg AFB, 5/01)

Erin Sieber #27024-083 (six months)
FDC Philadelphia, POB 562, Philadelphia, PA 19105.
(Damage to property at Pentagon, 4/01 - in 7/20/01)

Rev. Stephen Kelly S.J. #00816-111 (14 months - in 8/20/01)
FCI Ft. Dix, P.O. Box 7000, Ft. Dix, NJ 08640.
(Prince of Peace Plowshares direct disarmament action, 2/14/97 - probation violation due to subsequent Plowshares vs. DU action)

Rev. Carl Kabat #03230-045 (one year + one day - out 8/14/02)
FCI Greenville, P.O. Box 5000, Greenville, IL 62246.
(Silo Pruning Hooks direct disarmament action, 11/13/84 - in 8/13/01 for probation violation due to subsequent trespass at nuclear missile silo N-7, Colorado, 8/6/00)

Helen Woodson #03231-045
FMC Carswell, Max Unit, POB 27137, Ft. Worth, TX 76127.
(Silo Pruning Hooks direct disarmament action, 11/13/84 - awaiting probation violation hearing after completing sentence for subsequent direct actions.)

Leonard Peltier #89637-132 (life)
P.O. Box 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
(Native American political prisoner)

Bonnie Urfer #04970-045 (5 months - in 1/4/02)
F.P.C. GREENVILLE, P.O. BOX 5000, GREENVILLE, IL 62246
("Silence Trident" direct disarmament action at Project ELF, 6/24/00)

OVERSEAS, THESE NUCLEAR RESISTERS ARE KNOWN TO BE IN PRISON:

Jenny Gaiawyn (three months - in 11/28/01)
HMP Cornton Vale, Cornton Road,Stirling, Scotland, FK9 5NY.
(Trespass at Trident sub base, Faslane, Scotland)

Sylvia Boyes (one month - in 12/4/01, likely out 12/18)
HMP Newhall , Dial Wood, Flockton nr. Wakefield, Yorkshire WF4 4AX, England.
(Trespass at Aldermaston nuclear weapons factory, 5/01)

Mordechai Vanunu (18 years)
Ashkelon Prison, Ashkelon, Israel.
(Nuclear whistleblower convicted of espionage and treason - kidnapped by Israeli agents, 9/30/86)

Yuri I. Bandazhevsky (8 years - in 6/01)
Ul. Kalvarijskaya 36; P.O. Box 35K, Minsk 220600, Belarus.
(Chernobyl researcher and whistleblower fraudulently convicted of corruption, 6/01)

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE ARE NOW IN PRISON FOR ANTI-WAR RELATED ACTIVITIES

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH:

Eric Robison #90293-020 (6 months - out 1/27/02)
FPC, POB 6000, Sheridan, OR 97378.
David Corcoran #90282-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC, POB 1085, Oxford, WI 53952.
Russell De Young #90283-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FCI Petersburg, POB 1000, Petersburg, VA 23804.
John Ewers #90284-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC Ashland, POB 6000, Ashland, KY 41105-6000.
Clare Marie Hanrahan #90285-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC, POB A, Alderson, WV 24910.
William Houston, Jr. #90289-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC Ashland, POB 6000, Ashland, KY 41105-6000.
John Alfred Hunt Jr. #90277-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FCI Beckley, POB 350, Beaver, WV 25813.
Steve Jacobs #88110-020 (one year - out 7/14/02)
FPC, POB 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
Richard John Kinane #90279-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FCI Englewood Camp, 9595 W. Quincy Ave., Littleton, CO 80123.
Lois Putzier #90292-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC, 37930 N. 45th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85086.
Mary Lou Benson #90281-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Rachel Louise Hayward #90286-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Gwen Hennessey #90288-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Rebecca Kanner #90278-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Elizabeth Anne McKenzie #90291-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Miriam Spencer #90294-020 (6 months - out 2/7/02)
Mary Alice Vaughan #90296-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
FPC Pekin, POB 6000, Pekin, IL 61555.
Dorothy M. Hennessey #90287-020 (6 months - out 1/14/02)
Now in half-way house, receiving mail c/o 3390 Windsor St., Dubuque, IA 52001.
(Re-entry trespass at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, 11/00 - out 11/23)

VIEQUES:

Alberto De Jesús Mercado #19580-069 (one year - out 5/02)
Metropolitan Correctional Center, 150 Park Row, NY, NY 10007.
(Probation violation and repeated trespass, on Vieques, Puerto Rico, to stop bombing practice on the inhabited island - 1999-2001)

Serrano, Dámaso #21626-069 (4 months - out 12/11/01)
MDC Guaynabo, POB 2147, San Juan, PR 00922-2147.
(Trespass on Vieques, Puerto Rico, to stop bombing practice on the inhabited island - 5/2001)

Previously listed, recently released:

Susan Crane, Philip Berrigan, Mark Colville