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Fred Powers

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Connecticut
Support
Communism
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Biography

Fred Powers was a political prisoner in the Hartford County Jail, Connecticut in 1932, threatened with solitary confinement for signing, with nine other prisoners, a protest against the "musty and sour bread."

Case

Sentence: Held in the Hartford County Jail.
Convicted: Imprisoned, 1932