The Nation - News from Jan. 24, 1989

Convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard, imprisoned at the Federal Penitentiary in Marion, Ill., began a five-day fast to protest the transfer of his wife, Anne, from a Danbury, Conn., hospital to a federal prison medical facility at Rochester, Minn., said Anne Pollard’s father, Bernard Henderson. Pollard, 34, was sentenced in 1987 to life in prison after he was convicted of supplying classified U.S. documents to Israel. His wife, 28, was given a five-year sentence as an accessory. Anne Pollard collapsed Jan. 11 at a federal prison work camp at Danbury, her father said. She was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gastrointestinal disorder, he said. Henderson claimed his daughter was moved from the hospital Jan. 14 before treatments had been completed. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman said Pollard was moved “for medical reasons” and denied that she was being mistreated.