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Caesar Tabib

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13582
State:New York
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Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Caesar Tabib

Biography

Caesar Tabib, from New York, New York, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from August 1918 to September 1920 and from May 1921 to December 23, 1923. Tabib developed chronic pulmonary tuberculosis in prison. (See Chapters 4 and 7 for excerpts of his prison record.)

Case

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
Charges: Federal prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918 (mass IWW trial in Sacramento).
Released: Dec 23, 1923
Sentence: Ten years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).
Institution State: Kansas