Biography
Jim Wallis, born June 4, 1948, is an evangelical theologian, author and founder of Sojourners. He opposed the Vietnam War and later co-drafted the 1983 Promise of Resistance statement that helped organize nonviolent opposition to United States policy in Central America. Wallis has been arrested more than twenty times in civil-disobedience protests, including at the Capitol and in Ferguson. Reviewed accounts document arrest processing and release but do not establish that he served an overnight jail or prison term.
Distinct 1984 and 1985 detention accounts
In Joyce Hollyday's report, participant Anne Symens-Bucher identifies Wallis among four people arrested following a test-site tour during Lent 1984 and taken toward Beatty jail. A separate row records that initial custody at year precision only. January 1 is a storage placeholder, not a claimed arrest day; no discharge or duration is known. Tested in the Desert, participant account.
Wallis's own July 1985 article dates Peace Pentecost's Washington action May 28, describes his jail custody, and says the arrested participants were later released. The separate 1985 row has exact arrest and initial-custody days but only YEAR precision for release, established before publication. Its January 1 placeholder is not a release before arrest. No continuous span, overnight term, precise release day or sentence duration is invented. These episodes are not an additional duration to sum with the generic older record. Existing photograph retained. A Consistent Ethic of Life, Wallis's original account.
