Biography
Valerie Sklarevsky was arrested during the June 18, 1983 USS Florida christening protest in Groton after reaching the speaking platform to denounce nuclear weapons. Unlike Bob Prentiss, who was released pending trial, she pleaded no contest and was sentenced to jail until her actual release Friday, June 24. These six elapsed days are a distinct actual multi-night stay; the report does not state a statutory charge or exact sentencing day.
Source and limits
The Nuclear Resister No.18, July 7, 1983, original page 1.
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.
Contemporary 1986 custody evidence
The Rocketdyne report individually identifies Valerie Sklarevsky and Liza Apper as arrested for trespass during the August 6, 1986 Hiroshima commemoration in Canoga Park and explicitly says both spent two nights in jail. A $50 fine was suspended because of time served. This is distinct from Sklarevsky’s already-recorded June 1983 USS Florida detention. No exact discharge day, 48-hour total, conviction or plea is inferred from two nights and a fine disposition.
The Nuclear Resister No. 41, September 18, 1986, original PDF page 5 (printed 4).
Individually documented 1985–1986 custody chronology
The January 3, 1986 Nevada Test Site report individually identifies Valerie Sklarevsky among the three noncooperators who actually served a five-day jail sentence before release. This completed five-day stay is separate from the other defendants released on citation that day and from this person’s earlier protest cases. January 3 is the arrest date; the report does not expressly print the subsequent individual admission or physical-release day, so five days are preserved as actual documented service without back-calculating endpoints. The other arrestees’ anticipated fines or five-to-six-day sentences are not assigned to this person.
The Nuclear Resister No. 37, January 20, 1986, original PDF pages [4].
