Jack Law

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13131
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 19 Days
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Jack Law

Biography

Jack Law was a machinist from Boston, Pennsylvania. Jack Law was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 9, 1918, to September 28, 1919, and from April 25, 1921, to December 25, 1921. Law was convicted even though he had left the IWW two years before the indictments.

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=14

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Incarcerated: Sep 9, 1918
Released: Sep 28, 1919
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.

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