Pietro Nigra

Released

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1910s

Inmate Number:#13704

State:Illinois

Time Imprisoned:

1 Year

Support

Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Biography

Pietro Nigra was a miner from Chicago, Illinois. Pietro Nigra was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from October 1917 to April 1918, from March 1919 to April 1919 and from April 1921 to May 19, 1922.

The March1922 official report lists Pietro Nigra in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy in violating the espionage act, ete. a sentence of February 28, 1919, 18 months, Leavenworth.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF14]

Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 14.

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918

Sentence: 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.

Pietro Nigra

Biography

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