California

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Curtis Coggins

Released

Curtis Coggins was a conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Jeremiah Dean Colcleasure

Released

Jeremiah Dean Colcleasure was convicted of conspiracy and attempted arson in connection with the December 2004...

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F. J. Cole

Released

F. J. Cole served on the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific publicity committee. The September 6, 1935 Voice of the...

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R. D. Coleman

Released

R. D. Coleman was arrested in 1934. A July 12 Ventura report in the July 23 Western Worker identifies R. D. C...

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Sam Coleman

Released

Sam Coleman was a Communist Party official tried in San Francisco for sheltering Smith Act fugitives Robert Th...

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John Colip

Released

John Colip was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio of Sa...

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Harry Collentz

Released

Harry Collentz was a defendant in the Sacramento criminal-syndicalism prosecution arising from the organizing...

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Ed Condon

Released

Ed Condon was one of the railway shopmen convicted in the frame-up that grew out of the 1922 nationwide shop-c...

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Frank Connelly

Frank Connelly is identified in the San Pedro dispatch dated July 5, 1934 as a picket jailed on suspicion of b...

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Philip Connelly

Released

Philip “Slim” Connelly was a California labor journalist, former head of the Los Angeles CIO Council, and edit...

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Josh Connole

Josh Connole was detained as a suspect in an environmental arson investigation and subsequently released after...

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Tom Connors

Released

Tom Connors was an IWW officer. Tom Connors served a prison sentence in San Quentin from June 2, 1925, to Febr...

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Booker T. Cooke Jr.

Released

Booker T. Cooke Jr. was a Sacramento City College student and former president of its Black Student Union. He...

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Clarence Copens

Released

Clarence Copens was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, a group of Black Marines arrested after a November 13, 1976...

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Ronald Alexis Coreas

Ronald Alexis Coreas was prosecuted for his involvement in the June 8, 2025 protest against immigration enforc...

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John J. Cornelison

Released

John J. Cornelison was a California labor prisoner serving a life sentence on a murder charge arising from a S...

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Robert Chavez Cortez

Robert Chavez Cortez was arrested in Anaheim, California, on November 6, 2025, during an encounter in which pe...

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Jim Cosner

Released

Jim Cosner was arrested during a May 22, 2002 demonstration in Santa Cruz, California, opposing Representative...

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Walter J. Coto

Walter J. Coto was a California prisoner represented in the March 20, 2012 public petition to the United Natio...

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Billy Cottrell

William “Billy” Cottrell was detained in a Los Angeles Earth Liberation Front prosecution in 2004.

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Michael Couch

Released

Michael Couch was identified in contemporary lists of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resistan...

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Therese Coupez

Released

Therese was a White anti-imperialist activist imprisoned in federal custody at FCI Pleasanton on resistance-re...

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Jesse Cover

Released

Jesse Cover was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed and...

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Joe Coya

Joe Coya was arrested in February 1924 with sixteen other IWW members at a union conference in Sacramento, Cal...