Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Arnold '80, Jefferey Ferris '77 and Geoffrey Wisner '80 have all declined to post the required 100 bail to obtain release from the armory, pending a ruling on a petition filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Concord...
...addition to myself, about a dozen Harvard students and faculty have been held here. Several have been compelled to post bail ($100 for most) and have returned to Harvard...
Food here has been inadequate and conditions crowded, but spirits are generally high. Even after announcements that class-action suits for bail reduction have failed, and that 15-day jail sentences were imposed on the first defendants in court, residents of "New Freebrook" are hanging together well. According to one estimate, 220 prisoners are committed to staying here "forever," until charges are dropped, releases on personal recognizance are gained, or the state of New Hampshire realizes the futility of feeding, housing and guarding a persistent nonviolent colony of nuclear protesters...
...with the more than 1400 persons who were finally arrested. Hundreds of them spent the night cramped in school buses and National Guard trucks and were given no food or water. Many waited 14 hours to be arraigned. The arraignment process itself was extremely irregular. One judge was setting bail at $100 while in another courtroom nearby a different judge set bail at $250. Thomson again coptered in to survey the scene, but the confusion continued throughout the next week...
Last week over 900 demonstrators began officially serving sentences for convictions that are automatically appealed to another court in New Hampshire. The courts refuse to release those remaining in jail unless they put up bail. Thomson has asked "corporations, labor unions and rank-and-file citizens" across the country to contribute money to defray the cost of the occupiers' incarceration. "Our battle of today can become theirs of tomorrow," Thomson said Friday, advising other states contemplating construction of nuclear plants or already employing them that they too might be "invaded...