John Avila

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13148
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
4 Years 7 Months 14 Days
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
John Avila

Biography

John Avila, from Lowell, Massachusetts, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 30, 1917, to May 14, 1922, when his sentence expired. Avila had a wife and three children.

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).
Incarcerated: Sep 30, 1917
Released: May 14, 1922
Sentence: Five years in prison (Espionage/Sedition Act conviction). ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.
Institution State: Kansas

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