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Margaret Inness

Released
Full name:Margaret Innes
Date of birth:06. 11. 1944
Date of death:22. 08. 2021
Age:76† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1970s
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
12 Days
Support
Anti-War Camden 28 Catholic Worker Movement
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Biography

Margaret Mary Inness (November 6, 1944 – August 22, 2021) was a Boston native, a Regis College graduate, a former novice with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and a special-education teacher completing a master's degree at Boston College at the time of the Camden 28 indictment. Tried as one of the seventeen and acquitted on May 20, 1973, she went on to teach in Boston public schools for more than thirty years. Her married name was Margaret Inness Galvani. She died in Savannah, Georgia on August 22, 2021 — fifty years to the day after the raid.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records
Arrested: Aug 22, 1971
Incarcerated: Aug 22, 1971
Released: Sep 3, 1971
Sentence: No sentence — acquitted with all seventeen trial defendants on May 20, 1973. The FBI individual custody record documents release on September 3, 1971, after posting ten percent cash or security on a $5,000 bond set by the Third Circuit that day. Source: FBI Camden/MEDBURG file NW68262 DocId32989529, p. 91.
Convicted: No