Joe McCarthy

Released
Age:48
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Minnesota
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Joe McCarthy, an organizer and delegate for the Lumber Workers Industrial Union in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He sewed in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from December 1917 to August 1918 and from September 1918 to June 13, 1922.

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 Chicago).
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction).
Institution State: Kansas

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