Shelley Miller
Biography
Shelley Miller was an anti-imperialist organizer and Puerto Rican independence activist who led the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. On February 2, 1983 she was ordered to appear before the federal grand jury in Brooklyn along with activist Silvia Baraldini to testify on the activities of the Puerto Rican independence movement. She refused to testify and instead submitted a statement arguing that the grand jury was an attack on the Puerto Rican independence struggle and served no legitimate purpose. She was found guilty of criminal contempt and sentenced to three years in federal prison for her refusal to testify.
The demonstration report prints a prison solidarity message identifying Shelley Miller at Alderson. This is evidence of the institution at the time of the April 1986 report; it supplies no exact transfer day and does not change a later or earlier institution in the existing case. Source: Report on the Marion/Lexington demonstration, April 19, 1986, PDF page 21. https://freedomarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/3.report.demo_.4.19.1986.pdf#page=21
Formal sentence date added
The original May11,1984Militant, fully visually reviewed, individually dates Miller's sentencing and names the judge. The authorized BOP number lookup corroborates the existing federal endpoint under MichelleMiller. No exact1983admission day is manufactured.
Breakthrough’s Winter/Spring 1987 welcome-home notice reported that Miller had completed two years at Alderson federal prison following her refusal to cooperate with the grand jury investigating Puerto Rican independence activists.
Libertad names this imprisoned resister in a May 10, 1985 habeas challenge to parole treatment.
