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Don Sheridan

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13140
State:Washington
Support
Anti-Militarism
Don Sheridan

Biography

Don Sheridan, a plumber and the secretary of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, in Spokane, Washington, was convicted at the mass W W 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 August 3, 1923.

Case

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