Biography
Paul Hood was individually named among three resisters who had recently served seventeen days in jail for a December 1981 anti-nuclear action at Draper Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After their conviction appeal was denied, they declined court-ordered community service, saying service should be voluntary Christian love rather than punishment. Exact jail-admission, release and sentencing days are not printed.
Sources and limits
The Nuclear Resister, September 30, 1983, original page 5.
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.
Separate 1983 Draper sentence stay and actual November release
The December 16 newsletter says Paul Hood was actually released November 24, 1983 after serving a thirty-day sentence for a Nagasaki Day offering of peace doves at Draper Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His October 27 letter was written from jail shortly after admission, but the admission month and exact day are not independently dated; intake remains blank. No October 25 intake is back-calculated from the thirty-day term. This later 1983 sentence stay is not the earlier seventeen-day imprisonment for the December 1981 Draper action.
The Nuclear Resister No22, December 16, 1983, original page 4.
Contemporary 1983–1984 custody evidence
Paul Hood’s December 28, 1983 Draper arrest initially ended in release pending the February 8, 1984 trial. He was then convicted and the report identifies him actually in MCI Billerica serving a 30-day sentence. His refusal of the fine led him to expect another 34 days; neither that anticipated addition nor the directory mid-April forecast proves actual service or release. This is a third distinct Draper stay, not the earlier 17 days or the separate 30-day term ending November 24, 1983. February 8 is stored as sentencing only; the exact physical intake is not independently printed.
The Nuclear Resister No. 23, February 12, 1984, original PDF 2 / printed 1, The Nuclear Resister No. 23, February 12, 1984, original PDF 4 / printed 3.
Earlier 1984–1985 custody chronology
Paul Hood was individually named among seven arrested December 19, 1984 at Draper Lab, held overnight at Cambridge city jail, and physically released the next day on personal recognizance. This December 19–20 one-day episode is separate from his 1981 action-related seventeen days and two distinct 1983/1984 sentence stays; the March 11 trial was future.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [7].
The August 1982 Draper trial resulted in a thirty-day term. After a requested delay, Hood actually began serving September 20. This is separate from his December 1981 action-related seventeen days and the later 1983–1984 cases.
