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Walls and bars

by Eugene Victor Debs · 1927

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Eugene Debs, labor organizer and leader of the Socialist Party, describes his experience at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was imprisoned at the age of 63 for 32 months for criticizing the government's jailing of Americans who opposed World War I.

PrisonsUnited StatesUnited States Penitentiary, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States. Penitentiary, AtlantaSociologySocial ScienceLiterature - Classics / CriticismCriminologySocial Science / Criminology