Biography
Jack Carney was a class-war prisoner (No. 59755) writing to the ILD from Welfare Island, New York in 1935.
The needle-trades section places him at Welfare Island and reports a fifteen-month sentence. This supplies an imposed term and labor connection for the existing Welfare Island prisoner; no complete duration or exact admission or release is supplied. Labor Defender, September 1934, original PDF page 18. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n08-sep-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=18
PDF page 13 prints Carney's prison letter from Welfare Island, number 59755. He describes waking at five, the mess hall, the lock-in gong and the monotony of confinement, and the encouragement from ILD letters. This is direct testimony of actual custody, not a new conviction or complete measured term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf
