Ryan Johnson

Released
Gender:Male
Era:2010s
State:California
Support
Anti-War
Ryan Johnson

Biography

Ryan Johnson was a US Army soldier who refused deployment to Iraq and sought refuge in Canada. He helped organize a Toronto chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War before returning to the United States and serving a military prison term.

Duration precision review October 13, 2026: Courage to Resist's March 2017 campaign account, including Ryan's own remarks and his wife's visits, confirms continuing Miramar imprisonment and an expected May release. It does not establish an actual release day or precise admission. The legacy 366-day total was calculated from year placeholders and is removed. No predicted May date or unrelated civilian inmate-locator namesake is substituted.

Case

Charges: Missing movement and remaining away from the military for 4,175 days; guilty plea at a special court-martial at Fort Irwin, California
Sentenced: 2016
Incarcerated: 2016
Released: 2017
Sentence: A supporter reported his court-martial, ten-month sentence and actual imprisonment in October 2016. A March 2017 campaign update describes continuing confinement at Miramar and visits from his wife. An October 2017 report confirms release and resettlement. The earlier predicted May release is not entered as an actual date. The Nuclear Resister (June 8, 2017, p.4) reports a September 26, 2016 guilty plea at Fort Irwin to missing movement and remaining away for 4,175 days, followed by a ten-month sentence. It reports release by publication but supplies no exact release date. The plea date is not independently established as the sentencing or prison-admission date.

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