Sister Megan Rice may not want to return to the Spartan life of the convent after she finishes her prison term. She’ll probably have TV in her cell, get three good meals a day, and have use of a recreation room where she can shoot pool, play cards, etc., etc., and she’ll have to perform fewer menial tasks than at the convent.
JUDGE SENTENCES NUN, 84, TO 35 MONTHS PRISON
Associated Press
February 18, 2014
An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant.
Megan Rice was sentenced Tuesday along with activists Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli. The men were sentenced to more than five years in prison.
The three activists cut through three fences on July 28, 2012, and reached a storage bunker that holds the nation's primary supply of bomb-grade uranium.
They painted messages, hung banners and threw blood on the bunker wall.
While officials claimed there was never any danger of the protesters reaching materials that could be detonated or used to assemble a dirty bomb, the break-in raised serious questions about security.
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