Biography
Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States, jailed for nonviolent direct action against the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex.
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister reports two distinct January custody spells following Rocky Flats resistance. Haines spent Sunday night in jail after her January 2 arrest and was released by a magistrate. After returning to court January 6, she declined another scheduled appearance; federal marshals arrested her about ten days later, and she remained jailed until the February 7 trial and sentencing. The jury convicted her, and the judge suspended a $500 fine on condition that she not enter the plant for six months. The report does not give the exact later arrest or physical discharge day.
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 4 months, entirely suspended, with one year probation—not 4 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.
Separate 1983 custody evidence and limits
The Rocky Flats report explicitly records Jennifer Haines physically released May 9, 1983 after being jailed since her Easter Sunday protest. It distinguishes the conviction four days before discharge and the suspended $500 fine from custody. Easter Sunday is the action/admission reference, not an exact numeral printed here; this proposal leaves the start blank rather than guessing. The actual May 9 discharge belongs to a separate 1983 stay, not her already recorded Christmas 1981–March 1982 imprisonment.
Separate 1985 Rocky Flats imprisonment
Jennifer Haines was tried and convicted of Rocky Flats trespass February 6, 1985 and sentenced February 15 by Federal Judge John Kane to one year. The current-prisoner directory confirms actual imprisonment in this 1985 case, separate from her 1981–1982 and 1983 stays. The report does not expressly date first physical admission or actual discharge; a one-year sentence is not a completed served total. The existing stored birth date is not used to calculate a new age or altered from this source, which gives no birth date.
The Nuclear Resister No.29, February 27, 1985, original PDF pages 4.
Earlier 1984–1985 custody chronology
The January 23 first-person-derived report explicitly separates Jennifer Haines's Christmas 1984 detention, physical December 28 release, and January 10, 1985 re-arrest by federal marshals after she declined the court appearance. It says the marshals brought her to jail on the appointed January 10 date and she was still held. January 10 therefore refines the existing 1985 admission, while the December 25–28 stay is separate; the bail gap is not flattened into uninterrupted custody. The later February 15 sentencing remains unchanged.
The report explicitly records Jennifer Haines arrested and jailed after the Christmas morning 1984 Rocky Flats protest, then physically released December 28 after refusing cooperation. This three-day December 25–28 spell ends before the separate January 10, 1985 readmission and is not her similarly dated Christmas 1981 case.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [4].
Recently released by the January 1986 report
The December 9, 1985 current-prisoner directory individually lists Jennifer Haines at Alderson for her 1984 Rocky Flats case. The January 20, 1986 issue individually places her in its previously-listed, recently-released list. This confirms a release had occurred by the latter report, but does not print its physical calendar day or settle whether it fell in late 1985 or early 1986. The actual January 10, 1985 readmission and later February 15 sentence already recorded for this case remain unchanged. No guessed release day, nominal one-year served total, continuous custody across the earlier December 1984 bail gap, or new duplicate case is added.
The Nuclear Resister No.36, December 9, 1985, original page4; No.37, January 20, 1986, original page4.
The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister reports two distinct January custody spells following Rocky Flats resistance. Haines spent Sunday night in jail after her January 2 arrest and was released by a magistrate. After returning to court January 6, she declined another scheduled appearance; federal marshals arrested her about ten days later, and she remained jailed until the February 7 trial and sentencing. The jury convicted her, and the judge suspended a $500 fine on condition that she not enter the plant for six months. The report does not give the exact later arrest or physical discharge day.
The Nuclear Resister No.15, March 9, 1983, PDF pages 3.
The original Easter account explicitly describes Haines arrested and taken to Denver City Jail at sunrise on Easter Sunday, with continued detention and later transfer. Easter 1983 was April 3, also fixed by the same issue calling Good Friday April 1. Together with the separately documented May 9 actual release, this establishes 36 elapsed days. No admission is inferred merely from arrest.
The Palm Sunday report individually names seven Rocky Flats protesters arrested April 15, 1984 and taken to Denver County Jail. Monday April 16 bond was set. Haines and Zook refused to pay and were physically released on recognizance at their April 26 arraignment. Eleven elapsed days are established. No other earlier or later custody period is combined into this stay.
The July 1985 update dates Haines’s transfer from Fort Worth to Alderson to June 13, 1985. Its January 5, 1986 release projection is not treated as an accomplished discharge.
After the June 25, 1984 Rocky Flats fine hearing she did not attend, Haines was arrested and sent to jail the following day for contempt. The imposed five days are not independently confirmed completed service. This is separate from her April 15–26 detention.
The report confirms Haines was arrested and held April 11, 1982, convicted May 14, and physically released August 18 after her terms were made concurrent in July. This 129-day stay is distinct from Christmas 1981 custody;106 days of legal credit are not additional physical confinement.
