Biography
Steve Sheridan of the Davenport Catholic Worker community in Iowa was individually reported as having actually served seven days in jail after a jury convicted him for painting reminders of the nuclear holocaust on local sidewalks the previous August. This was the anti-nuclear Shadow Project protest, not an ordinary unrelated property conviction. Seven days are expressly completed actual service, not merely a sentence. The report does not give his first jail-admission or physical-release day; the August action month is not silently substituted as a jail-entry date. No unsupported expansion of Steve to Steven, vital dates or demographic attributes is supplied.
Contemporary source and limits
Steve Sheridan of the Davenport Catholic Worker community in Iowa was individually reported as having actually served seven days in jail after a jury convicted him for painting reminders of the nuclear holocaust on local sidewalks the previous August. This was the anti-nuclear Shadow Project protest, not an ordinary unrelated property conviction. Seven days are expressly completed actual service, not merely a sentence. The report does not give his first jail-admission or physical-release day; the August action month is not silently substituted as a jail-entry date. No unsupported expansion of Steve to Steven, vital dates or demographic attributes is supplied.
The Nuclear Resister No. 37, January 20, 1986, original PDF pages [8].
Only individually documented actual political-protest imprisonment is recorded. Unknown physical endpoints, demographic attributes, vital dates, unverified name expansions and present custody status are not guessed.
