Biography
John M. Bach was imprisoned for resistance to the Vietnam-era draft. At Danbury he joined other prisoners in opposing the war and challenging prison censorship.
In a letter written in 1970 and reprinted in The Witness in January/February 1994, John Bach described his imprisonment at Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Pennsylvania. He organized a July 14 Bastille Day gathering that brought conscientious objectors and prisoners from different racial and national backgrounds together. He wrote that officials summoned him the following morning and threatened harsh disciplinary treatment if he organized another such meeting. This account documents prison solidarity and resistance during his draft-resistance imprisonment; it does not establish a new admission or release date.
