Jacob Mindel

Released
Date of birth:1882
Date of death:01. 01. 1969
Age:87† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
Jacob Mindel

Biography

Jacob Mindel was the senior member of the Foley Square Second String, the Communist Party USAs internal educator, and director of the partys Workers School in New York City for many years. He was 70 years old at the time of his 1951 indictment. Convicted alongside the rest of the second string in January 1953, he was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Because of his age and frail health he served a substantial portion of his sentence at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri.

Case

United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners
Charges: Conspiracy to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government (Smith Act of 1940)
Arrested: Jun 20, 1951
Incarcerated: Jan 11, 1955
Sentence: 2 years federal prison; served at the federal prison hospital due to age and ill health — Held briefly after the June 20, 1951 arrest (released on bail by June 29, 1951); imprisoned from about January 11, 1955 and still held through at least June 11, 1956. Exact discharge date not documented. Verdict as recorded: Yes — federal jury verdict, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, January 1953
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Missouri

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