Biography
Richard Evans was a member of Albany Meeting who spent seven days imprisoned at Jamesville in1971 for a protest asserting the right to hitchhike where it posed no traffic hazard.
Patty Lymans account describes a separate Selective Service prosecution for Evanss refusal to continue alternative service, with a June 1972 guilty finding and sentencing in Auburn on September 15, 1972. The judge imposed one year of probation conditioned on alternative civilian work. His probation officer allowed him to finish at the College of Human Services and then join New York Yearly Meetings Peace and Social Action Program, his original plans. The account explicitly says he accepted probation and avoided prison. This noncustodial disposition is not added to the separate seven-day Jamesville protest imprisonment. Source continuation: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1972/HC12-50528.pdf#page=11 Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1972/HC12-50528.pdf#page=10
Evans described his seven days at Jamesville State Penitentiary during the Attica uprising as frightening but valuable. His case arose from protesting restrictions on hitchhiking where it posed no traffic hazard.
