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Louise Todd

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 1 Month 18 Days
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Louise Todd was a California Communist Party official sentenced in 1935 to one to fourteen years at the Tehachapi women's prison on a "technicality" over ballot-petition signatures — a prosecution aimed at the party's electoral work after the San Francisco general strike.

Case

Tehachapi State Prison
Incarcerated: November 1935
Released: Dec 19, 1936
Sentence: One to fourteen years at Tehachapi.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California