Tom Tamotsu Sako

Released
Date of birth:30. 04. 1922
Date of death:07. 01. 2022
Age:99† Deceased
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Wyoming
Time Imprisoned:
3 Years
Support
Heart Mountain draft resistance
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Biography

Tom Tamotsu Sako was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at McNeil Island in Washington.

1942 forced-removal chronology

The Heart Mountain institutional biography records arrival at Santa Anita Assembly Center on May 27, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on September 13, 1942. These are dated confinement milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a revision of the later draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.

Case

McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Charges: Violation of the Selective Training and Service Act
Arrested: Sep 5, 1944
Sentenced: July 1945
Sentence: 2 years imposed. Served time at McNeil Island in Washington. Actual release date has not been established.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Washington

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