Biography
Flora I. Foreman was an Oregon Socialist and schoolteacher prosecuted under the Espionage Act in Texas. In a prison letter dated November 20, 1918, she reported being arrested June 3 and held because she could not furnish bond. She was tried and sentenced to five years on October 16, 1918. Her letter described harsh jail conditions and anticipated transfer to McAlester, Oklahoma. The subsequent prison admission and release chronology requires further verification.
The January 1919 Liberator describes Foreman as a schoolteacher of fifteen years and a Socialist since 1911. Its personal account reports pulmonary illness, approximately two months in solitary confinement, extreme heat and meals at 9:30 and 3:30. Two months describes a component of detention, not her complete term. Its appeal for $300 bail does not show that bail was paid or that a transfer or release occurred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/01/v2n01-w11-jan-1919-liberator.pdf#page=3
1920s custody review: Foreman's own letter dated November 20, 1918, published in The Liberator, January 1919, page 3, explicitly dates her arrest June 3, 1918 and describes detention because she could not furnish bond. It dates her trial, conviction and five-year sentence October 16, 1918; this was not her admission to McAlester. The letter says transfer to that prison was still anticipated. Accordingly October 16 is moved from prison admission to sentencing. Her June 3 jail detention is documented here, but an uninterrupted interval through the existing June 17, 1922 release has not been established. The inherited release date is retained pending independent verification, and no exact total is asserted. The phrase physical wreck describes her condition in November 1918, not necessarily her condition upon release. Existing identified photograph retained.
