Israel Lazar

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

Israel Lazar was a young revolutionary worker held (inmate No. 6977) in the Eastern State Penitentiary at Philadelphia, sentenced to two years for speaking for the Communist Party during the 1928 election campaign and kept in solitary confinement on the fifth gallery.

Case

Eastern State Penitentiary
Sentence: Two years, in solitary confinement, Eastern State Penitentiary.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Pennsylvania

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