Elderly Nun Sentenced to Prison for Break-In for Anti-Nuclear Protest
Nearly three years for her actions at Tennessee weapons plant
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.
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