Title: Walls and bars,
Authors: Debs, Eugene V. 1855-1926.
Publisher: Socialist Party
Year: 1927
Subjects: Debs, Eugene V.; United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia.; Prisons United States
Abstract: 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.
Contents: The relation of society to the convict -- The prison as an incubator of crime -- I become U.S. convict no. 9653 -- Sharing the lot of les miserables -- Transferred from my cell to the hospital -- Visitors and visiting -- The 1920 campaign for president -- A Christmas Eve reception -- Leaving the prison -- General prison conditions -- Poverty populates the prison -- Creating the criminal -- How I would manage the prison -- Capitalism and crime -- Poverty and the prison -- Socialism and the prison -- Prison labor, its effects on industry and trade -- Studies behind prison walls -- Wasting life.