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Jack Jarvis

Era:1910s
State:Kansas
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Biography

Jack Jarvis is named among IWW prisoners placed in the Leavenworth black hole on April 14, 1919 in Charles Plahn’s signed December 1919 account. The group received six days on bread and water and third-grade status, followed by isolation. This establishes actual political-prisoner custody; his underlying individual conviction and full admission/release chronology are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v01n10-dec-1919_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=38 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v01n10-dec-1919_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=39

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Imprisonment as an IWW member; exact individual underlying charge not supplied.
Sentence: Actual Leavenworth custody and six-day disciplinary confinement documented. Underlying sentence and full custody total unknown.
Institution State: Kansas