Biography
Scott Andress was a minister who supported anti-nuclear resistance at the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant near Amarillo, Texas. On Ash Wednesday, February 16, 1983, he stepped inside the gate with a lighted candle, knelt and prayed. He was arrested for trespass. The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister reports that he remained jailed in Panhandle awaiting trial, and its current-prisoner directory separately lists him there. The scheduled April proceedings were prospective. His actual release, final disposition and completed duration are not established by this issue. Source: The Nuclear Resister No.15, March9,1983, PDFpage1 (printedpage1): https://media.nukeresister.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NR015_19830309small.pdf#page=1
Scott Andress was a minister who supported anti-nuclear resistance at the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant near Amarillo, Texas. On Ash Wednesday, February 16, 1983, he stepped inside the gate with a lighted candle, knelt and prayed. He was arrested for trespass. The March 9, 1983 Nuclear Resister reports that he remained jailed in Panhandle awaiting trial, and its current-prisoner directory separately lists him there. The scheduled April proceedings were prospective. His actual release, final disposition and completed duration are not established by this issue.
The Pantex update individually confirms Scott Andress was physically released from Carson City Jail March 16, 1983. His already documented February 16 admission makes 28 elapsed days. April proceedings were not his release; no imposed sentence is substituted.