page_title: Megan Rice
hierarchical_section_title: Megan Rice
caption_attribution_description: English: Megan Rice, Ann Wright, Candace Ross in Las Vegas after a book release event for Ann Wright's book
context_page_description: Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., is a nuclear disarmament activist, Catholic nun, and former missionary. She is notable for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group. The break in was a nuclear disarmament protest referred to as "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex."
  Rice was sentenced to almost three years in prison. In May 2015, the conviction for sabotage was vacated by a federal appeals court. The appeals court ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that Rice and the two others had the intention of causing injury to the national defense system. The lesser charge of injuring government property was upheld by the court but Rice was released within a week as the 2 years she had already served would be more than the re-sentencing for the upheld conviction.
context_section_description: Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) is a nuclear disarmament activist, Catholic nun, and former missionary.  She is notable for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now Plowshares group. The break in was a nuclear disarmament protest referred to as "the biggest security breach in the history of the nation's atomic complex."
  Rice was sentenced to almost three years in prison. In May 2015, the conviction for sabotage was vacated by a federal appeals court.  The appeals court ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that Rice and the two others had the intention of causing injury to the national defense system. The lesser charge of injuring government property was upheld by the court but Rice was released within a week as the 2 years she had already served would be more than the re-sentencing for the upheld conviction.
caption: Megan Rice, Ann Wright (Col ret.) Candace Ross 2008 Las Vegas book release for Wright's book; Dissent Voices of Conscience
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