Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday April 16, 1919
Jefferson City, Missouri – Kate Richards O’Hare Behind the Prison Bars
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of April 15, 1919:
KATE RICHARDS O’HARE ‘DRESSED IN ‘ AT PRISON
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Socialist Will Sew on Jumpers in Shop With
Emma Goldman at Jefferson City.
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By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.
Kate Richards O’Hare & Children: Richard, Kathleen, Victor, and Eugene. April 1919-taken before she turned herself over to begin serving prison term. ———-
JEFFERSON CITY, April 15.-Mrs. Kate Richards O’Hare of St. Louis, the Socialist leader convicted of violating the espionage law by speaking against war, was “dressed in” this morning at the Missouri penitentiary, to which she has been sentenced to serve five years, was given a bath and designated as “No. 21,669.” She will be put to work tomorrow sewing jumper jackets and suspenders on a machine, in the same shop with Emma Goldman, the anarchist.
Mrs. O’Hare is the wife of Frank P. O’Hare and the mother of four children. She is the author of a number of essays, pamphlets and at least one play on social and economic subjects. She was Socialist candidate for Senator from Missouri in 1916, and once was a candidate for the Socialist nomination for Vice President.
Mrs. O’Hare, after the affirmation of her conviction by the Supreme Court, made a study of criminology for the purpose of making a scientific analysis of crime and the causes of it, when she became a prisoner. She consulted several noted psychologists and criminologists, and studied the mental tests used in the army. With the aid of these she prepared an exhaustive questionnaire for prisoners to answer.
More than a month ago she visited Gov. Gardner here and obtained permission from him to purse her studies in the prison…..
In Prison
-Being a Report by Kate Richards O’Hare to the President of the United States as to the Conditions Under Which Women Federal Prisoners Are Confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary, Under the Authority of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Superintendent of Prisons.
-Based on the Author’s Experience as a Federal Prisoner
from April 14, 1919, to May 30, 1920.
St. Louis, MO, 1920 http://debs.indstate.edu/o36i5_1920.pdf
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