R. V. Lewis

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:California
Support
Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

R. V. Lewis received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence for violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Act by taking part in IWW activities and served in a county jail and San Quentin from May 1920 to June 1922. San Quentin prison officials refused to provide medical attention to Lewis when he developed an abscess on his leg, resulting in the amputation of that leg.

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: California prosecution under the state Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919.
Institution State: California

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