Lawrence Allen

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:West Virginia
Support
United Mine Workers of America
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Biography

Lawrence Allen was a West Virginia coal striker imprisoned at the Moundsville penitentiary on a charge of dynamiting a coal mine during the miners' strike — one of ten years of his sentence served, as the ILD's Labor Defender reported him on its 1929 roster of class-war prisoners.

Case

West Virginia State Penitentiary
Charges: Dynamiting a coal mine (West Virginia miners' strike)
Sentence: Ten-year term at the Moundsville penitentiary.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: West Virginia

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