Biography
Tom Cahill was a Vietnam-era peace activist and later a leader of the movement against sexual abuse in detention. In a 2001 interview he described antiwar activism in San Antonio and imprisonment for civil disobedience in 1968. Just Detention International also dates his San Antonio jail experience to 1968 and documents the sexual assault he survived there. The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission report instead describes civil-disobedience detention during a factory labor strike in 1967. These conflicting accounts are preserved without inventing an exact arrest date or treating them as two independently established cases. He subsequently lived outside custody and served as president of Just Detention International from 1998 to 2006. The organization commemorated his death in 2021.
