Biography
Hedy Sawadsky joined a Christmas Day prayer protest at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver on December 25, 1981. Arrested and taken to jail, the five protesters refused bond at their December 28 arraignment. A January 17, 1982 contemporary report confirms that they remained jailed after a January 8 hearing, facing contempt proceedings for violating an injunction against trespass at the plant.
Source: National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter, January 17, 1982, page 1. Custody is historical; an exact release date has not been verified.
Contemporary anti-nuclear custody report
The Rocky Flats report individually names Peter Sprunger-Froese, Hedy Sawadsky, Jennifer Haines, Kris Selvig and Ann Zook, continuously held in Denver County Jail from their Christmas Day 1981 arrests until the March 1, 1982 trial. It reports conviction, immediate sentencing and release when all jail sentences were suspended. This profile’s imposed term was 6 months, entirely suspended, with one year probation—not 6 months actually served. The article mistakenly says six were released after naming only five; no sixth person is invented. Jennifer Haines’s separately stored March 3 sentencing day conflicts with this account of immediate March 1 sentencing and is not silently overwritten. Other episodes remain unchanged.
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 11, April 15, 1982, original pages 3.
