Biography
Jackie Allen-Doucot was 22 and working as a nursery-school teacher in Hartford when she joined the Griffiss Plowshares action on November 24, 1983. She and six other activists entered Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York, hammered on a B-52 bomber, poured blood, and were arrested. She later joined the Thames River Plowshares action on September 4, 1989, swimming to the USS Pennsylvania at New London, Connecticut. Allen-Doucot has remained active in the Catholic Worker and Plowshares movements.
Thames River custody episodes
September 4–5, 1989 detention is now separated from the sixty-day sentence imposed March 6, 1990. The later stay has no verified endpoints. The incorrect Northern District of New York prosecutor attribution was removed; proceedings were in Hartford.
Source: Participant Arthur J. Laffin's Plowshares chronology.
Initial Griffiss custody ended December 12, 1983
The Thanksgiving at Griffiss report individually names Jackie Allen-Doucot among seven resisters who entered Griffiss Air Force Base on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1983. All seven were initially held on an Air Force bus, then remained in Syracuse City Jail until their December 12 arraignment, when they were released on their own recognizance. This establishes an initial eighteen-elapsed-day interval, not continuous custody through any later July 1984 sentence or final federal discharge. The next court appearance in January was future and not a release date. All existing later proceedings and endpoints must remain separately preserved.
The Nuclear Resister No22, December 16, 1983, original page 3.
Separate later Griffiss custody
The contemporary Inside & Out directory expressly identifies Jackie Allen (register 01265-052) as then imprisoned at Alderson under a nominal two-year Griffiss Plowshares term. This later sentence-phase custody is distinct from the separately recorded November 24–December 12, 1983 initial jail stay and recognizance release. The December 9, 1985 issue individually names Jackie Allen under “Previously listed—recently released.” This supplies only a latest publication bound, not the actual discharge day. No actual date of re-entry or exact final discharge, or total served is established by these listings. The ordered term is not a measured period in custody; all other cases and independently documented dates remain unchanged.
The Nuclear Resister: No.35, October 24, 1985, PDF page 4.; No.36, December 9, 1985, PDF page 4.
2006 detention evidence and its limits
The Easter 2006 Hartford Catholic Worker’s Notes from De Porres House reports that Brian Kavanagh and Jackie Allen-Doucot were arrested and actually held overnight after an anti-torture witness outside the White House. The masthead identifies both members of the Hartford community, and the article names Brian and Jackie in that context. Its only timing is “last month”; because the issue also describes events after Easter and Earth Day, that relative wording is not converted to an assumed numerical admission or release date. This is a distinct 2006 Washington detention, not an extension of Allen-Doucot’s Griffiss or Thames River custody. One overnight is not proof of a full 24-hour day. Both physical endpoints and an exact day total remain unknown.
The Hartford Catholic Worker, Easter 2006, original pages 2 and 9–10.
In her March 2022 interview, Allen-Doucot recalled spending one week in jail following a Standing Rock solidarity action at government offices. She returned to camp afterward.
