Akira Matsumoto

Released
Date of birth:03. 08. 1923
Date of death:09. 08. 2009
Age:86† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Support
Heart Mountain draft resistance
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Biography

Akira Matsumoto was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at McNeil Island in Washington.

1942 forced-removal chronology

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records arrival at Pomona Assembly Center on May 9, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on August 12, 1942. These are dated confinement milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a revision of the later draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Apr 7, 1944
Sentenced: June 1944
Released: July 1946
Sentence: 3 years imposed. Served time at McNeil Island in Washington. Released in July 1946.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington

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