Biography
William Flanagan was an IWW member. William Flanagan received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin. When guards put Flanagan in the "dungeon" for failing to work hard enough, thirty-six IWW inmates launched a work strike.
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Wm. Flanagan with historical prisoner number 37897. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. 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.
Case
San Quentin State Prison
