Walls and bars

Description:

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.

subjects: Prisons,  United States,  United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia,  United States. Penitentiary, Atlanta,  Sociology,  Social Science,  Literature - Classics / Criticism,  Criminology,  Social Science / Criminology

People: Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)

Places: United States