Biography
Albert B. Prashner was from Scran ton, Pennsylvania. Albert B. Prashner was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918, from September 1918 to September 1919 and from April 1921 to December 23, 1921. The Department of Justice commuted his sentence after Prashner "denounced in all sincerity his former IWW associates and all radical affiliation" and declared that he "no longer [held] the ideas which led him to join" the IWW.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster reports that he was out on $10,000 bond pending appeal in the Chicago IWW prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=17
Official roster contradicts the inherited twelve-month total
The Leavenworth inmate roster reproduced on page 6 of the National Archives at Kansas City’s October 2017 newsletter individually lists Albert B. Prashner. Its “actual time served” column records 1 year, 7 months, 27 days, already more than the inherited twelve-month total formerly stored here. That twelve-month total has therefore been cleared rather than presented as established time served. The roster’s compilation date and a complete set of physical custody endpoints are not supplied in this reproduction, so this entry is preserved as a historical custody observation, not assumed to be a final lifetime total. The separate “minimum term expires” column is not an actual release register; no release day is copied from it. Bail and parole annotations also mean the period must not be assumed continuous.
National Archives newsletter, page 6, reproduced RG 129 inmate roster
