Editor's Note, April 22 2002: This list of imprisoned activists is updated from the list and articles published in NR #127 (February 16 2002). 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:

Fr. Frank Cordaro #13093-047 (6 months - out 9/5)
Correctional Corporation of America, Inc., 100 Highway Terrace, Leavenworth, KS 66048
(Repeat trespass Strategic Nuclear Command, Offutt AFB - 8/9/01)

Bonnie Urfer #04970-045 (5 months - out 5/31/02)
F.P.C. Greenville, P.O. Box 5000, Greenville, IL 62246
("Silence Trident" direct disarmament action at Project ELF, 6/24/00)

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 6/02)
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)

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

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)

Grigory Pasko (4 years - in 12/25/01)
SIZO IZ-25/1, Partizanskiy Prospekt 28-b, 690106 Vladivostok, Russian Federation.
(Russian military journalist convicted of high treason for reporting on nuclear waste dumping by Russian fleet, already served 20 months awaiting original trial)

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

Pedro Colón Almenas #22192-069 (one year - out 2/22/03)
MDC Guaynabo, POB 2147, San Juan, PR 00922-2147
(Convicted of aggravated assault at University of Puerto Rico anti-ROTC protest, 4/30/01)

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS:

Steve Jacobs #88110-020 (one year - out 7/14/02)
FPC, POB 1000, Leavenworth, KS 66048.
(Reentry trespass at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, 11/00)

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Previously listed, recently released: