Connecticut

Babar Ahmad

Babar Ahmad was a political prisoner on charges of providing support to terrorist organizations due to a websi...

Syed Talha Ahsan

Released

Syed Talha Ahsan became the focus of a prolonged extradition struggle between the United Kingdom and the U.S.,...

Emma Bogush

Released

Emma Bogush is an activist from Connecticut who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Tra...

Philip Caplovitz

Released

Philip Caplovitz of New Haven, Connecticut was a conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I at Fort...

William Sloane Coffin

Released

William Sloane Coffin Jr. was an American clergyman and one of the most prominent liberal religious voices of...

John E. Cook

John Edwin Cook was a Yale-educated abolitionist who served as Brown's principal advance scout, living in Harp...

Prudence Crandall

Released

Prudence Crandall was a Quaker schoolteacher who in 1832 admitted Sarah Harris, a Black girl, to her female ac...

Maude Francis

Maude Francis was a juvenile detained in connection with the New Haven Black Panther prosecution in 1969. The...

Víctor Manuel Gerena

In Exile

Puerto Rican independentista and member of Los Macheteros (Ejército Popular Boricua) who, while working as a s...

Ed Guerard

Released

Ed Guerard was a Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist and former Marine who repeatedly took to the water...

Bill Henry

Released

Bill Henry was a 27-year-old Committee for Non-Violent Action pacifist who, with Donald Martin, swam to and bo...

Ericka Huggins

Released

Ericka Huggins was a leader of the New Haven, Connecticut chapter of the Black Panther Party. After the May 21...

Eugene Keyes

Released

Eugene "Gene" Keyes was a 19-year-old Harvard student — not, as sometimes recorded, an NYU student — and Commi...

Charles "Butch" Lewis

Released

Charles "Butch" Lewis co-founded Hartford’s Black Panther organization and remained a neighborhood organizer....

Martin Quigley

Released

Irish national from Dundalk along the militarized border separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the coun...

Edward Sanders

Released

Edward Sanders was a 21-year-old New York University student — not, as sometimes recorded, a Harvard student —...

Aaron Stevens

Aaron Dwight Stevens was a Mexican–American War veteran and one of John Brown's most experienced lieutenants....

Jeannie Wilson

Jeannie Wilson was a juvenile detained in connection with the New Haven Black Panther prosecution in 1969. The...

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Roger Aarons

Released

Roger Aarons was a New York pacifist associated with the Committee for Nonviolent Action. He participated in i...

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Hassan Abu-Jihaad

Released

Hassan Abu-Jihaad was a Navy signalman who disclosed the location of USS Benfold in an online forum. Authoriti...

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Jackie Allen-Doucet

Released

Jackie Allen-Doucet was 22 and a nursery school teacher in Hartford, CT at the time of the Griffiss Plowshares...

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Citti Allsup

Released

Citti Allsup was a New England CNVA participant jailed during the June 1967 Hartford vigil for John Stephens.

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Hillel Arnold

Released

Hillel Arnold was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's...

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Judith Beaumont

Released

Benedictine sister and teacher from Hartford/Chicago; took part in the 1982 Trident Nein action aboard the USS...