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Mike Palecek

Era:1980s
State:Nebraska
Time Imprisoned:
8 Days
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Biography

Mike Palecek was individually reported as serving an Offutt Air Force Base protest sentence from November 28 to December 6, 1983, after November 15 sentencing for repeated entry onto the Strategic Air Command headquarters grounds. The ten-day nominal term with good-time allowance is distinguished from the eight elapsed days between the printed actual endpoints. No unrelated arrest day or vital dates are inferred.

Sources and limits

The Nuclear Resister No22, December 16, 1983, original page 5.

Actual individually reported anti-nuclear custody, not a future hearing or sentence alone. Forecasts, nominal terms and group totals are not personal actual endpoints or completed totals. No demographic attributes, vital dates, unsupported name expansions or modern custody status are inferred.

Separate 1985 Offutt imprisonment and source spelling

The report spells the Offutt activist Mike Palacek, alongside R. Kevin McGuire in the Greenfields resistance community. The recurring Offutt/SAC protest and probation context links this to the existing Mike Palecek record; the original spelling is preserved here rather than creating a second person. They crossed on October 27–29, 1985: released off base on the first two days, then taken into FBI custody October 29. Palacek’s probation was revoked and he was sent to jail for six months. The current-prisoner directory corroborates actual imprisonment, not completion of the six-month term; no final release or uninterrupted lifetime total is inferred. This is distinct from the stored November–December 1983 stay.

The Nuclear Resister No.36, December 9, 1985, original PDF pages 2,4.

Mike Palecek, first-person2007book-tour memoir, originalpage9: Greenfields with KevinMcGuire independently corroborates the identity link; no dates are inferred from this later recollection.

Cases

Sentenced: Nov 15, 1983
Incarcerated: Nov 28, 1983
Released: Dec 6, 1983
Sentence: Mike Palecek was individually reported as serving an Offutt Air Force Base protest sentence from November 28 to December 6, 1983, after November 15 sentencing for repeated entry onto the Strategic Air Command headquarters grounds. The ten-day nominal term with good-time allowance is distinguished from the eight elapsed days between the printed actual endpoints. No unrelated arrest day or vital dates are inferred.
Arrested: Oct 29, 1985
Incarcerated: Oct 29, 1985
Sentence: The report spells the Offutt activist Mike Palacek, alongside R. Kevin McGuire in the Greenfields resistance community. The recurring Offutt/SAC protest and probation context links this to the existing Mike Palecek record; the original spelling is preserved here rather than creating a second person. They crossed on October 27–29, 1985: released off base on the first two days, then taken into FBI custody October 29. Palacek’s probation was revoked and he was sent to jail for six months. The current-prisoner directory corroborates actual imprisonment, not completion of the six-month term; no final release or uninterrupted lifetime total is inferred. This is distinct from the stored November–December 1983 stay.