Brian Terrell

Released

Date of birth:1956

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:2010s

Inmate Number:#06125-026

State:Iowa

Time Imprisoned:

6 Months 21 Days

Support

Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement

Biography

Brian Terrell is co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and lives at the Strangers and Guests Catholic Worker farm in Maloy, Iowa. He has been one of the most consistently arrested U.S. anti-war activists of the past two decades, focusing especially on U.S. drone warfare. In 2012 he was sentenced to six months in federal prison for crossing the line at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — the home of the U.S. Air Force's Predator and Reaper drone fleets — and served his sentence at FCI Yankton. He has since been arrested repeatedly at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in New York for similar drone-protest line-crossings.

Cases

Charges: Trespass on a military installation

Arrested: Apr 15, 2012

Incarcerated: Nov 30, 2012

Released: May 24, 2013

Sentence: Six months in federal prison

Convicted: Yes

Charges: Municipal trespass (ordinance 50-102) — Kansas City National Security Campus

Arrested: Apr 27, 2026

Released: Apr 27, 2026

Sentence: Cited for municipal trespass and released at the plant, without offsite booking. Nuclear Resister #208 reports that defendants appearing June 4 learned prosecutors had not filed the case; the report does not individually identify that first arraignment group.

Charges: Trespass — Nevada National Security Site, Mercury

Arrested: Apr 3, 2026

Sentence: Four days

Charges: Trespass arising from the July 2019 Büchel nuclear-disarmament action — Wittlich prison, Germany

Arrested: Jul 14, 2019

Incarcerated: Feb 26, 2025

Released: Mar 12, 2025

Sentence: Served a fifteen-day sentence at Wittlich. His first-person account places his custody from February 26 to March 12, 2025, which is fourteen elapsed days (fifteen calendar dates counted inclusively). The counter uses elapsed time; no sentence-to-release estimate is substituted.

Convicted: Yes

Charges: Refusal to pay a fine for trespass at Fort McCoy

Sentenced: Jan 28, 2010

Incarcerated: Jan 28, 2010

Sentence: Fourteen days in Dane County Jail for nonpayment of a $75 fine.

Charges: Protest at Fort McCoy during Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemorations

Arrested: Aug 9, 2009

Incarcerated: Aug 9, 2009

Released: Aug 10, 2009

Sentence: Held overnight in Dane County Jail on federal holds; released the following afternoon without appearing before a judge.