Biography
Sander Maki was a conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth; Fort Douglas. Sentenced to 20 years in prison - reduced to 3 years. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: sentenced to 20 years in prison - reduced to 3 years; imprisoned in Ft. Douglas War Prison Barracks; a member of I.W.W.
The December 1919 One Big Union Monthly records an earlier civil prosecution: Maki was arrested in Crosby, Minnesota, on June 7, 1917 for failure to register for the draft, and sentenced on August 1 to eight months in the Mankato County Jail. After that sentence expired he was arrested again and sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. A military death sentence was commuted to twenty years and reduced to three years in March 1919. He was subsequently listed among the prisoners held at Fort Douglas.
Footnote 3 describes these Finnish Iron Range resisters as serving civilian draft-resistance time before military confinement at Camp Dodge. Civilian and military custody must remain distinct; the passage supplies no additional exact endpoints. William R. Douglas, The Germans Would Court-Martial Me, Too: St. Paul’s World War I Socialist Draft Resisters, Minnesota History 55(7), Fall 1997 pp286–301, original PDF page 4. Source: https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/55/v55i07p286-301.pdf#page=4
The December 1919 One Big Union Monthly records an earlier civil prosecution: Maki was arrested in Crosby, Minnesota, on June 7, 1917 for failure to register for the draft, and sentenced on August 1 to eight months in the Mankato County Jail. After that sentence expired he was arrested again and sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. A military death sentence was commuted to twenty years and reduced to three years in March 1919. He was subsequently listed among the prisoners held at Fort Douglas.
The Fort Douglas photograph identifies him by surname among nine IWW prisoners, supporting the established military-confinement history. A separate report of J. Bauer’s release concerns alien-enemy internees and does not establish this military conscientious objector’s release date. The two legal custody categories are not conflated.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 38.