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Susan Silverberg

Era:1980s
State:Montana
Time Imprisoned:
15 Days
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Biography

Susan Silverberg was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula County Jail after their June 6, 1983 convictions for a May 22 blockade of a Burlington Northern train transporting nuclear-warhead cargo. All four were actually released June 20. The fifteen days are explicit completed service, not a sentence maximum. The exact first physical-admission day and statutory charge are not printed and are not back-calculated from the duration.

Source and limits

The Nuclear Resister No.18, July 7, 1983, original page 5.

Individually named anti-nuclear protest custody is documented. Sentence lengths, forecasts and actual service are distinguished. No vital dates, demographic attributes, present custody status or unsupported name expansion are inferred. Any missing endpoints remain unknown.

Case

Released: Jun 20, 1983
Sentence: Susan Silverberg was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula County Jail after their June 6, 1983 convictions for a May 22 blockade of a Burlington Northern train transporting nuclear-warhead cargo. All four were actually released June 20. The fifteen days are explicit completed service, not a sentence maximum. The exact first physical-admission day and statutory charge are not printed and are not back-calculated from the duration.