California

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Allan Mancino

Allan Mancino was a California prisoner whose account alleged retaliation for refusing an order to kill George...

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William Manners

William Manners was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unem...

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Edwin Osvaldo Manriquez

Released

Edwin Osvaldo Manriquez was prosecuted for firing paintballs at a Federal Protective Service officer during a...

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Richard Marino

Released

Richard Marino was a U.S. Army prisoner and one of the Presidio 27. On October 14, 1968, twenty-seven prisoner...

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Steve Markavich

Steve Markavich is individually listed in the January 1931 Labor Defender political-prisoner directory under A...

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James Martin

Released

James Martin was an IWW member. James Martin received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quen...

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Christian Martinez

Released

Christian Martinez was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution of...

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Gines Martinez

Released

Gines Martinez was one of five Spanish sailors who deserted Franco's navy and sought asylum in the United Stat...

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Fred Masson

Released

Fred Masson was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...

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Jun Matayoshi

Jun Matayoshi was an Okinawan gardener and labor activist. Yushi Yamazaki's 2020 study, printed p. 102 and not...

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Henry Matlin

Released

Henry Matlin was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's crimi...

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Clarence G. Maurer

Released

Clarence G. Maurer was a Quaker conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...

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Mayeur

Mayeur was identified by surname only among twenty-two people arrested for picketing the Adohr Dairy during th...

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Mack McCaffery

Mack McCaffery is identified in the San Pedro dispatch dated July 5, 1934 as a picket jailed on a charge of as...

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Dwayne McCain

Dwayne McCain, called Stickey and identified as fourteen years old, was taken into police custody in Richmond,...

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Francis E. McClennigan

Released

Francis E. McClennigan was from Los Angeles. Francis E. McClennigan served a prison sentence at San Quentin un...

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John McCluskey

John was a SUP member, book 3653, resident of San Pedro, reported to be in jail on a charge of beating five st...

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Pete McCrites

Pete McCrites is individually listed in the January 1931 Labor Defender political-prisoner directory under Ang...

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Trevon L. McDaniel

Released

Trevon L. McDaniel was arrested on July 1, 2026 after prosecutors alleged that he threatened to use fireworks...

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Thomas McDermott

Released

Thomas McDermott was jailed in California in 1919 while awaiting trial under the state Criminal Syndicalism Ac...

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Harry McKee

Harry McKee was a socialist lawyer prosecuted during the San Diego free speech fight of 1912. He helped arrang...

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Gene McKinney

Gene McKinney was a defense witness in Huey P. Newton’s criminal trial. Newton’s appeal, excerpted in The Blac...

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James McLean

James McLean was a Los Angeles laborer described as a militant worker in the Daily Worker of December 8, 1934,...

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E. D. McNassor

Released

E. D. McNassor was an IWW member from Portola. E. D. McNassor received a four-year prison sentence, which he s...