Peter Dirks

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:Maine
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Biography

Peter Dirks was imprisoned at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in the mid-1920s and appears on the International Labor Defense's roster of class-war prisoners in the first issue of Labor Defender (January 1926). Like most of the rank-and-file labor prisoners of the period, little else about his case entered the historical record.

Case

Maine State Prison
Charges: Listed by the International Labor Defense as a class-war prisoner at the Maine State Prison (Labor Defender, January 1926).
Sentence: Held at the Maine State Prison, Thomaston (term and release date not documented). Verdict as recorded: Convicted (details not documented)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Maine

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