Biography
Jeff Schoonover-Higgins was arrested April 4, 1985 after climbing onto the roof at Williams International in an anti-nuclear protest. He pleaded guilty to trespass and received a nominal thirty-day jail sentence. The contemporary report and individual Oakland County Jail mailing address confirm actual continued confinement. An indefinite contempt imprisonment was described prospectively after the trespass sentence, not as an already completed second stay. Exact admission and actual release remain unknown.
Contemporary source and limits
Jeff Schoonover-Higgins was arrested April 4, 1985 after climbing onto the roof at Williams International in an anti-nuclear protest. He pleaded guilty to trespass and received a nominal thirty-day jail sentence. The contemporary report and individual Oakland County Jail mailing address confirm actual continued confinement. An indefinite contempt imprisonment was described prospectively after the trespass sentence, not as an already completed second stay. Exact admission and actual release remain unknown.
The Nuclear Resister No.30, April16,1985, PDF pages [4, 5].
No exact unprinted custody endpoint, vital date, demographic category, expanded name or present custody status is inferred.
The Williams account says the civil-contempt citation sent Jeff Schoonover-Higgins to jail April 4, 1985 and he remained jailed. This directly establishes intake rather than assuming it from arrest alone. Subsequent misdemeanor terms ran concurrently, not additional consecutive custody.
The July report confirms physical release June 6,1985 after appeal of the Williams International contempt citation, ending the distinct April 4 imprisonment.
The report individually identifies this Williams International peace resister as jailed for civil contempt after the June 11, 1984 blockade. Actual release was 1984-06-26; this separate stay lasted 15 elapsed days.
