California

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Arthur DeWitte League

Arthur League was a Santa Ana Panther convicted and imprisoned in the Nelson Sasscer case. Supporters disputed...

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L. N. Legendre

Released

L. N. Legendre, from Los Angeles, California, began serving a two-year prison sentence on July 20, 1918. He wa...

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Stuart Lennox

Released

Stuart Lennox was a Australian Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-...

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Gary Lescallett

Released

Gary Lescallett was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San...

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Guy Levecher

Released

Guy Levecher was a Canadian Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-mis...

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Eugene Levin

Released

Eugene Levin was an Army doctor honorably discharged in June 1954 after invoking the Fifth Amendment on a loya...

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George Levison

Released

George Levison was beaten and arrested on a vagrancy charge in the July 1934 vigilante raid on the Internation...

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R. V. Lewis

Released

R. V. Lewis received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence for violating the California Criminal Syndicalism...

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Ryan Daniel Lewis

Released

Ryan Daniel Lewis, age 21, was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 200...

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Henry Leyvas

Released

Lead defendant in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, accused by Los Angeles County prosecutors of being the ringl...

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Albert Lima

Released

Albert 'Mickey' Lima was a Northern California Communist Party leader arrested in San Francisco in the July 19...

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Bear Lincoln

Released

Eugene Bear Lincoln, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, was charged with murder after...

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G. Lindfors

Released

G. Lindfors, from Los Angeles, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from July...

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Ethel Linn

Released

Ethel Linn was brought from Canada as a child and arrested in Los Angeles in 1953 for deportation on hearsay o...

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Russell Little

Released

Early member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who, with Joseph Remiro, was convicted of the November 6, 1973...

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Vincent Lombardo

Released

Vincent Lombardo was one of the activists arrested when Santa Cruz police sparked a melee during a May 22, 200...

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James La Londe

Released

James La Londe, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Qu...

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Robin Long

Released

Specialist Robin Long was a U.S. Army soldier who refused deployment to Iraq in 2005 and went absent without l...

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Mark Loo

Released

Mark Loo, a Chinese-American member of the Communist Workers Party, was one of the "NASSCO 3," three San Diego...

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Sandra Loranger

Released

Sandra Loranger was a Santa Cruz activist sentenced to 30 days in jail for making soup for the homeless in San...

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Peter Lynch

Released

Peter Lynch was an IWW delegate organizing agricultural laborers around Calipatria, in California's Imperial V...

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Thomas Lyons

Released

Thomas Lyons, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Qu...

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James MacInnis

Released

James MacInnis was a defense lawyer for labor leader Harry Bridges who was cited for contempt of court during...

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Gus Madsen

Released

Gus Madsen was a class-war prisoner held at San Quentin (inmate no. 44461), listed on the ILD's roster of Amer...