Biography
Christian pacifist of Mennonite family background raised Methodist. Prosecuted after publicly writing officials and giving a local newspaper interview saying he would never register. Sentenced to a few months at a federal detention facility in the Detroit area, with work release allowing him to drive 70 miles daily to his job. Later careers in public health and design.
Custody chronology and identified photograph
The previously recorded 1983 imprisonment-and-release span is unsupported and internally reversed: its year-only release precedes its June14 admission. Contemporary Winter-Spring1986 reporting and the June16 1986 Methodist conference report say Rutt was still awaiting sentencing. Those custody fields are removed rather than shifted to a guessed later year. His own2018 testimony confirms107 days of completed custody at the federal Community Corrections Center in Detroit after his1986 conviction, but does not give admission or discharge dates. Existing June14 1983 arrest remains expressly uncorroborated; a February4 1983 arraignment is not automatically an arrest. November29 release in the Fifth Estate article concerns Paul Jacob, not Rutt.
The original Toledo City Paper radio-interview photograph identifies Dan Rutt at left and Dr. Johnathan Ross at right. Identity is cross-checked against Rutt's own draft-resister testimony, Toledo residence and his Top Pun homepage naming the same WAKT program, Just for the Health of It. Photograph preserved unchanged, not cropped or regenerated. Modern image, not a 1980s booking photograph. Photographer, exact capture date and reuse license not established.
Sources: Michigan Christian Advocate, June 16, 1986, page 3, complete page visually checked; contemporary Fifth Estate chronology; Rutt's firsthand testimony; Rutt's own radio-program identification; explicit left-to-right photo caption; unchanged original photo.
Firsthand completed custody duration: 107 days
In his June27,2018 testimony, Rutt reports107 days served at the federal Community Corrections Center in Detroit following his1986 trial and conviction, as well as two years probation and200 hours community service. The107-day completed stay is now recorded as a documented duration. Its admission and discharge dates remain blank; no date is back-calculated and no probation time is counted as imprisonment.
