Biography
Esther Kisamore was imprisoned in connection with nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons. Esther Kisamore and Margaret Kiefer were sentenced December 2 for their July 16 wheat planting at the Consolidated Space Operation Center near Colorado Springs. Both had already been jailed ten days after the action. Kisamore’s new two-day sentence was credited against the earlier ten actual days; it is not an extra two served days and does not reduce the documented stay to two.
Contemporary source and limits
Esther Kisamore and Margaret Kiefer were sentenced December 2 for their July 16 wheat planting at the Consolidated Space Operation Center near Colorado Springs. Both had already been jailed ten days after the action. Kisamore’s new two-day sentence was credited against the earlier ten actual days; it is not an extra two served days and does not reduce the documented stay to two.
The Nuclear Resister No.36, December 9, 1985, original page 8.
The reviewed issue documents actual political-protest imprisonment. No race, birth or death date, other identity expansion, exact release from a projected date, or current custody status is inferred. Only explicit actual completed days are entered as a documented subtotal; imposed terms alone are not counted.
The original individually identifies Esther Kisamore among the CSOC protesters arrested September 18, 1984. They refused $200 bond, remained jailed, were convicted October 2, and were finally physically released following October 19 sentencing. These 31 elapsed days form a separate 1984 episode, not the later July 1985 wheat-planting case or the earlier Rocky Flats case.
The original individually names both women arrested July 16, 1985 for wheat planting at CSOC and expressly says they were held in jail after refusing to sign an appearance promise. This establishes actual intake, beyond the action date alone. Ten days later a judge ordered release, but the execution of that order is not separately reported; no July 26 actual release is invented. The existing later December 2 sentencing and documented ten days remain unchanged.
