Biography
Catholic priest and Plowshares peace activist arrested in Michigan for a nuclear-weapons disarmament action and held at the Bay County Jail. Convicted of federal sabotage and depredation of government property. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Birth-date source
Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation, 2009 international award biography. The foundation records Charles Peter Dougherty's birth on August 22, 1934.
Peter Dougherty is individually named among the five Williams International peace resisters arrested Good Friday April 20, 1984. All pleaded guilty that day and were jailed indefinitely unless they promised not to violate the injunction; the report still places them in Oakland County Jail at publication May 9. This establishes actual multi-week US political custody, not a suspended or scheduled sentence. No final release or completed total is inferred. The case is separate from later 1984–1986 prosecutions.
The Williams account explicitly identifies Peter Dougherty as sent to jail April 4, 1985 for civil contempt and still confined. His later concurrent misdemeanor sentence is not separately counted.
The July report confirms physical release June 6,1985 after appeal of the Williams International contempt citation, ending the distinct April 4 imprisonment.
The August 1984 follow-up explicitly names the five Good Friday Williams International contempt prisoners and reports their actual release May 10, 1984. Combined with their already documented April 20 jail admission, this establishes 20 elapsed days; concurrent trespass terms are not counted again.
The August 1982 Sawyer account individually identifies this resister among four held overnight, refused recognizance August 10 and kept in Marquette County Jail for fifteen reported days before suspended sentences. No discharge day is inferred from the August 23 sentencing.
