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Ackie Allen

Nursery school teacher from Hartford, Conn. She participated in the Griffis Plowshares in 1983. It became the first Plowshares case to be tried in Federal Court. They were acquitted by a jury of sabotage, but they were convicted of conspiracy and destruction of government property. They received prison sentences ranging from two to three years.

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