American Political Prisoners - Prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Acts

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Stephen M. Kohn, Styephen M. Kohn
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.1994
• EAN: 9780275944155
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94415-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 482 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, United States of America, USA, Espionage & secret services, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Espionage and secret services, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Current Events and Issues: Law and Crime