Los Angeles Catholic Worker

8/24/2006

Jeff is out of jail!

Filed under: News Items — Clare @ 10:01 pm

Jeff Dietrich who was sentenced Friday Aug 18 to thirty days in jail for a March civil disobedience protest of the Iraq war was released Sunday morning Aug. 20 after spending only 36 hours in lock-up!
“I was freed by grace “he said, “the same grace that prevents all of our homeless friends from doing punitive jail time for insignificant ‘quality of Life crimes’. The jails are over crowded and the sheriff is forced to release all ‘non-violent’ offenders after they have served a mere one tenth of their sentence. Thank God for ACLU law suits that prevent the authorities from packing the already over crowded jails and making an unbearable situation even worse”

 

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