Biography
Rick Boardman was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1971.
The September 1, 1971 Sufferings roster places this prisoner at Allenwood, Pennsylvania and identifies affiliation with Acton Meeting, Massachusetts. The roster confirms confinement at its reporting time without establishing an exact admission, transfer or release day, a new case, or a complete actual duration. Source: https://friendsjournal.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/friendsjournal/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/1971/HC12-50503.pdf#page=31
Custody research — September 2026
Boardman’s instructor biography reports eighteen months in federal prison for draft resistance during 1970–1971. The counter uses that reported duration.
An earlier 1970 custody listing
CCCO News Notes, 4th Issue 1970, volume 22 number 4, page 4, names Rick Boardman under “Currently Imprisoned” at Allenwood, Pennsylvania. This documents an earlier 1970 institutional listing in addition to the 1971 reports mentioned in the biography. The newsletter supplies no exact first admission, physical release, or total time served. Its publication period is not used as a custody endpoint or counter.
Richard (Rick) Boardman, formerly on the American Friends Service Committee’s Chicago staff, contributed to Struggle for Justice while serving a three-year draft-resistance sentence. He joined an Allenwood work stoppage against arbitrary prisoner transfers and was transferred to Danbury. His later instructor biography at OLLI at American University records eighteen actual months in federal prison in 1970–71.
Original document 1235, PDF page 33; Original document 1235, PDF page 35; www.olli-dc.org; www.newyorker.com.
