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Cassandra Dixon

Era:1980s
State:Wisconsin
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 21 Days
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Biography

Cassandra Dixon actually spent four days in jail in July 1986 as a result of the July 6 blockade of the Wisconsin Project ELF transmitter. The contemporary report expressly distinguishes that completed Wisconsin stay from her July 29 overnight arrest at the separate Michigan ELF facility and later September 13 Wisconsin arrest awaiting trial. The four actually served days are not expanded to include those other arrests. It does not print the later July sentence-admission, sentencing or discharge day.

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Cassandra Dixon actually spent four days in jail in July 1986 as a result of the July 6 blockade of the Wisconsin Project ELF transmitter. The contemporary report expressly distinguishes that completed Wisconsin stay from her July 29 overnight arrest at the separate Michigan ELF facility and later September 13 Wisconsin arrest awaiting trial. The four actually served days are not expanded to include those other arrests. It does not print the later July sentence-admission, sentencing or discharge day.

The Nuclear Resister No. 41, September 18, 1986, original PDF page 4 (printed 3). No demographic attributes, vital dates, unprinted endpoints or current custody status are inferred.

Dixon was jailed September 23 and released on time served October 21, 1986.

Source report, PDF 1398, pages 2.

Cases

Arrested: Jul 6, 1986
Sentence: Cassandra Dixon actually spent four days in jail in July 1986 as a result of the July 6 blockade of the Wisconsin Project ELF transmitter. The contemporary report expressly distinguishes that completed Wisconsin stay from her July 29 overnight arrest at the separate Michigan ELF facility and later September 13 Wisconsin arrest awaiting trial. The four actually served days are not expanded to include those other arrests. It does not print the later July sentence-admission, sentencing or discharge day.
Charges: Trespass at Michigan Project ELF facility
Incarcerated: Sep 23, 1986
Released: Oct 21, 1986
Sentence: Held September 23–October 21, 1986, then released on time served.
Plead: Guilty
Charges: Separate earlier anti-nuclear protest-related custody
Sentence: Nineteen actual days after the 1980 Women’s Pentagon Action; exact endpoints unknown.