Biography
Oscar Williams was a young Black worker jailed after protesting discrimination by the Brooklyn Home Relief Bureau. He was actually confined in Raymond Street Jail, where he witnessed a prisoner revolt over food and treatment. Charges were dismissed February 21, 1933 in Fifth Magistrates Court, and he subsequently described the jail conditions after release. A separate eviction-meeting prosecution the previous week resulted in a one-year suspended sentence from Judge Sabbatini; that suspended term was not time served. International Labor Defense attorney Max Krauthamer represented him. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n046-NY-feb-23-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
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Raymond Street Jail
