Alex Chessman

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
Inmate Number:#16282
State:West Virginia
Support
United Mine Workers of America
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Biography

Alex Chessman was a West Virginia coal miner imprisoned at the Moundsville penitentiary (inmate no. 16282), listed on the ILD's roster of American class-war prisoners in Labor Defender in 1928 as one of the men jailed "out of the labor struggles." Little else about his case entered the historical record.

Case

West Virginia State Penitentiary
Sentence: Held at the West Virginia penitentiary, Moundsville (no. 16282). Verdict as recorded: Convicted (details not documented)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: West Virginia

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