Biography
John Collins was individually listed at the West Virginia state prison in Moundsville in The Daily Worker of January 28, 1924. The newspaper included John Collins among its political and class-war prisoners in an appeal to supply imprisoned people with newspaper subscriptions. This establishes actual state-prison confinement; the particular charge, sentence, admission and release dates, and total served are not established by that notice.
John Collins was individually listed at the West Virginia state prison in Moundsville in The Daily Worker of January 28, 1924. The newspaper included John Collins among its political and class-war prisoners in an appeal to supply imprisoned people with newspaper subscriptions. This establishes actual state-prison confinement; the particular charge, sentence, admission and release dates, and total served are not established by that notice. Actually imprisoned at Moundsville, as listed in the January 28, 1924 political-prisoner subscription appeal. The charge, sentence length, admission, release and total served are unestablished by this source.
The Daily Worker, January 28, 1924, page 5, contemporary political-prisoner subscription appeal.
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints John Collins with historical prisoner number 11928. The entry appears under Moundsville, West Virginia. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.