Biography
Nick Prokopenko was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 5 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered for draft on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; interviewed by Bd. on Jan. 5, ___ at Leavenworth; charged with disobedience of orders; sentenced to 5 years in prison; reasons for stance = Russian, Socialist; not a U.S. citizen; member of Radical Union of Russian Workers
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth