California

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Walter Pawlowski

Released

Walter Pawlowski was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the leaders of the "Presidio 27" stockade protest of Octob...

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Cris Pedersen

Released

Cris Pedersen, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...

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Mathias Pendzialek

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Mathias Pendzialek was a German Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti...

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Marc Perry

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White anti-imperialist activist arrested in November 1977 in Los Angeles as one of the PFOC/LA 5 on conspiracy...

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George Pesce

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George Pesce was a class-war prisoner held at San Quentin (inmate no. 44462), listed on the ILD's roster of Am...

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Clarence Peters

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Clarence Peters was one of three young Black men who, on September 13, 1972, gave a ride to two white hitch-hi...

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Edward R. Peters

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Edward R. Peters was a Los Angeles member of the Industrial Workers of the World, prosecuted under California'...

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Joe Pettis

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Joe Pettis was the secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union in San Francisco, arrested when the union'...

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Terry Phillips

White Panther Party member convicted with Tom Stevens and sentenced to 5½ years-to-life over the July 1974 pol...

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Mike Plesh

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Mike Plesh was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndica...

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Theodora Pollok

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Theodora Pollok Social worker and the only woman among the "Sacramento 46" IWW defendants tried in early 1919...

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Fr. Chris Ponnet

Released

Fr. Chris Ponnet was a Los Angeles Catholic Worker who participated in the Ash Wednesday March 5, 2003 blockad...

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Nathan Pope

Released

Nathan Pope, age 26, was one of the AETA 4 - four young people indicted in 2009 under the Animal Enterprise Te...

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Henry Powell

Released

Henry Powell, from Eureka, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from April 27...

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Sylvia Powell

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Sylvia Powell was a co-defendant with her husband John W. Powell and Julian Schuman in the 1956 sedition prose...

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James Price

Released

James Price, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served...

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Roy Pulley

Released

Roy Pulley, then 19 and from Lakeport, California, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the...

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William Quinn

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William Joseph Quinn, an American-born member of the Provisional IRA, was sought by the United Kingdom for the...

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Orlando Javier Ramirez

Released

Orlando Javier Ramirez, 30, of Fresno CA, was charged in 2023 with felony vandalism, hate crime, and criminal...

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Pancho Ramos Stierle

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Pancho Ramos Stierle, a Mexican-born nonviolence organizer affiliated with Casa de Paz / the Canticle Farm com...

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Ernest Ramsay

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Ernest Ramsay was convicted of conspiracy in the 1936-37 Point Lobos frame-up, part of an effort his supporter...

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Joseph Ranchioni

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Joseph Ranchioni was a conscientious objector sentenced to three years for refusing to go to Korea on religiou...

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Lawrence Reidel

Released

Lawrence Reidel, then 20, was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the...

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Joseph Remiro

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Vietnam War veteran and Symbionese Liberation Army member convicted with Russell Little of the November 6, 197...