Biography
Margaret Kiefer was imprisoned in connection with nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons. Margaret Kiefer and Esther Kisamore were sentenced December 2 for their July 16 wheat planting at the Consolidated Space Operation Center near Colorado Springs. The report explicitly says both had already been jailed ten days after the action. Kiefer received a suspended $50 fine. July 16 is the action date, not an independently stated first admission; no July 26 discharge is calculated.
Contemporary source and limits
Margaret Kiefer and Esther Kisamore were sentenced December 2 for their July 16 wheat planting at the Consolidated Space Operation Center near Colorado Springs. The report explicitly says both had already been jailed ten days after the action. Kiefer received a suspended $50 fine. July 16 is the action date, not an independently stated first admission; no July 26 discharge is calculated.
The Nuclear Resister No.36, December 9, 1985, original page 8.
The reviewed issue documents actual political-protest imprisonment. No race, birth or death date, other identity expansion, exact release from a projected date, or current custody status is inferred. Only explicit actual completed days are entered as a documented subtotal; imposed terms alone are not counted.
The original individually names both women arrested July 16, 1985 for wheat planting at CSOC and expressly says they were held in jail after refusing to sign an appearance promise. This establishes actual intake, beyond the action date alone. Ten days later a judge ordered release, but the execution of that order is not separately reported; no July 26 actual release is invented. The existing later December 2 sentencing and documented ten days remain unchanged.
