Stephen M. Kohn

American Political Prisoners (eBook, PDF)

Prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Acts

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs. Based on the author's exclusive access to the uncensored prison files of many of these prisoners, and information obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act, Kohn relays the powerful prison experiences of some of America's most famous and colorful labor, socialist, and peace leaders. With over ten years of research, and access to tens of thousands of pages of never-before released U.S. Department of Justice records, Stephen Kohn has been able to recreate the actual prison experiences of these political prisoners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313020551
• Artikelnr.: 37812910

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN M. KOHN is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center. He is the former Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project. Nationally recognized for his scholarship and litigation on behalf of whistleblowers, Kohn in 1985 authored the first legal text on whistleblower law. He is the author of Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Quorum, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Howard Zinn Introduction Background to the Sedition Laws and
Their Use During the World War I Era The Espionage and Sedition Acts of
1917 and 1918: Then and Now The Selective Service Act Inside Golgotha: The
Prison Experience of the World War I Sedition Act Inmates and Conscientious
Objectors The Convictions Prison Discipline A Transfer to St. Elizabeth's
Hospital for the Insane A Death The Most Indolent Man at Leavenworth
Military Justice Isolation Relief from the Psychopathic Ward Release The
Prisoners Federal Espionage and Sedition Act Prisoners State Anti-Sedition
and Criminal Syndicalism Prisoners Political Prisoners Who Died While
Incarcerated in Federal, Military, or State Prisons Conclusion Selected
Bibliography Index