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Jeff Keith

Released
Era:1960s
State:Virginia
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 1 Month
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Biography

Jeff Keith was a conscientious objector imprisoned at Lewisburg and Petersburg during the 1960s.

Case

Charges: Conscientious-objection prosecution; individual statutory count unverified
Incarcerated: April 1965
Released: May 1966
Sentence: The December 1965 Catholic Worker lists Keith in custody at Petersburg federal prison. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection finding aid describes his 1970 Prison Memoirs as recounting imprisonment as a conscientious objector at Lewisburg and Petersburg in 1965-1966. Exact admission and release dates, sentence length and total time served remain unverified. Subsequent source resolves the months: Adam Waxman review of Inmate31114, Friends Journal January2007 printedpage36, explicitly states imprisonment April1965 to May1966. First-of-month values are storage placeholders; exact days and exact total remain unverified. https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/2007/HC12-51051.pdf#page=36