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Peter Matusewitch

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
Inmate Number:#79978-158
State:New York
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Biography

Peter Matusewitch was a draft counselor and nonviolence trainer with the Quaker Project on Community Conflict. He was imprisoned for refusing to register with Selective Service.

Case

Charges: Failure to register with Selective Service, 50 U.S.C. App. section462(a)
Sentenced: Nov 27, 1973
Incarcerated: Dec 20, 1973
Sentence: An earlier three-year sentence was suspended conditionally, and the June1973 appeal remanded sentencing for reconsideration. Friends Journal reports a November27,1973 three-year sentence and actual prison entry December20,1973 at Danbury. The February1974 Catholic Peace Fellowship bulletin confirms the December20 entry and gives a current federal prison camp mailing address in Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Transfer date is unverified; the locations are attributed separately. Actual duration and release date remain unknown.