Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

You will enjoy this passionate and uncompromising collection of poems striving against labor injustice. Ralph Chaplin was a writer and labor activist. In 1917, was convicted, and jailed under the Espionage Act of 1917 for conspiring to hinder the draft and encourage desertion. He wrote Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems while serving four years of a 20-year sentence.