Biography
Richard Drake was a Los Angeles defendant in the prosecutions following the March 6, 1930 unemployment demonstrations. He was jailed and received a six-month sentence and a $500 fine. The International Labor Defense appealed. By August 1930 he had been released on $1,000 bail while awaiting the appeal decision; a letter from his parent described visiting him in jail.
The Behind the Bars directory on printed page 4 lists this prisoner under Los Angeles City Jail No. 6, California, with six months, 1930. This is an attributed historical directory entry: the year and nominal term do not establish an intake day, uninterrupted imprisonment, completed service or physical release.
A parent’s Los Angeles letter identifies Richard Drake as a March 6 defendant, formerly visited in jail and now out on $1,000 appeal bail against six months and a $500 fine. This corroborates actual liberty by publication, without converting the nominal six months to time served or treating a year-precision placeholder as a January 1 gate-release day.
