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Michael McCord

Released
Era:1970s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

Michael McCord was a former Harvard divinity student and member of Germantown Meeting who was imprisoned at Danbury for draft resistance.

Friends Journal, December 1, 1972, reports that McCord completed his one-year draft-resistance sentence and was released from Danbury Federal Prison in mid-September 1972. It identifies him as a former Harvard divinity student and Germantown Meeting member. Mid-September is month-level information, not an exact release day; the imposed term is not converted to a measured actual total. Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1972/HC12-50528.pdf#page=2

Case

Charges: Draft resistance - individual statutory count unverified
Released: September 1972
Sentence: Friends Journal December1,1972 reports that he completed a one-year sentence and was released from Danbury in mid-September1972. Exact admission date and actual total duration remain unverified; sentence length is not imported as actual time served.