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Megan Rice, peace activist nun imprisoned for nuclear site break-in, dies at 91

Megan Rice spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons.

ROSEMONT, Penn. — Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91.

Rice died of congestive heart failure Oct. 10 at Holy Child Center in Rosemont, Pa., according to her order, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.

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