Albert B. Prashner

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13138
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Albert B. Prashner, from Scran ton, Pennsylvania, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918, from September 1918 to September 1919 and from April 1921 to December 23, 1921. The Department of Justice commuted his sentence after Prashner "denounced in all sincerity his former IWW associates and all radical affiliation" and declared that he "no longer [held] the ideas which led him to join" the IWW.

Case

Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Chicago).
Sentence: Ten years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). 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.

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