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Bobby Masao Nagahara

Released
Date of birth:05. 06. 1921
Date of death:10. 05. 2022
Age:100† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
Inmate Number:#1205-MC
State:Wyoming
Support
Heart Mountain draft resistance
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Biography

Bobby Masao Nagahara 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 Santa Anita Assembly Center on May 30, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on September 13, 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