Biography
Mel Hall was individually named among four anti-nuclear demonstrators arrested August 9, 1983 at Williams International in Walled Lake, Michigan, where cruise-missile engines were manufactured. The four received thirty-day contempt sentences and were actually released September 3 after a dispute over good-time and work-release privileges. The exact first jail-admission day is not independently stated, so the announced sentence is not treated as thirty days actually served.
Sources and limits
The Nuclear Resister, September 30, 1983, original page 4.
Actual individually documented custody and anti-nuclear protest relevance are established, not merely arrest or a possible sentence. No demographic attributes, exact vital dates, current custody status or unsupported name expansion are inferred. Earlier arrest, sentence, residential custody, physical jail and projected release are distinguished.
The August 9, 1983 Williams report explicitly says the four were carried away into custody, taken to Oakland County Circuit Court and held for contempt. Even after recognizance on trespass, all remained jailed because of contempt. This is direct continuous-custody evidence for August 9 admission, beyond an arrest or nominal sentence. The already independently recorded September 3 actual release is preserved; these endpoints span 25 elapsed days, distinct from the thirty-day imposed term.
