Illinois

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Alicia Rodríguez

Released

Alicia Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican activist whose political outlook was shaped by community life in Chicago an...

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José Luis Rodríguez

Released

José Luis Rodríguez was one of four people arrested in the Chicago area on June 29, 1983 in a major FALN case...

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Félix Rosa

Released

Puerto Rican political prisoner held at Graham and Logan Correctional Centers in Illinois in connection with t...

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Luis Rosa

Released

Luis Rosa emerged as a young organizer in Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, becoming active in student politic...

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Charles Rothfiser

Released

Charles Rothfiser, the editor of the IWW's Hungarian language newspaper, from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted...

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Mike Rusniak

Released

Mike Rusniak was imprisoned in Illinois for taking a police car and other acts of anti-government property des...

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Jack Ryan

Released

Jack Ryan was a CIO organizer during the 1941 International Harvester strike in the Chicago area. When police...

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Jiesef Sabczak

Released

Jiesef Sabczak was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. C...

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Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah

Released

Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah, 51, was indicted August 19, 2004 in Chicago for HAMAS recruitment / material supp...

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Ronald Satchel

Illinois Black Panther Party member shot four times surviving the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's a...

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James Sayles

Chicago man convicted with Henry Dee and sentenced to death (May 1972), then to two consecutive 220-to-440-yea...

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Scott Scelye

Released

Scott Scelye appears on incarcerated-person contact lists associated with political prisoner support efforts a...

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William Schiller

In Exile

William Schiller, known as Bill, was a draft resister from suburban Chicago and an early recruit to the Peace...

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Scott Seclye

Released

Native American prisoner held at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois under number 02601-041, listed a...

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Sebastian Senakiewicz

Released

Sebastian Senakiewicz — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Polish national charged under Illinois t...

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Ira Silbar

Released

Ira Silbar was the defense attorney for the three petition solicitors, himself jailed alongside his clients an...

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Norman Silverman

Released

Norman Silverman was arrested for distributing leaflets headed 'End Mob Rule in Cicero' after the 1951 anti-Bl...

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H. Austin Simons

Released

H. Austin Simons was a writer and conscientious objector imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, where he was a leader...

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John Sims

Released

John Sims was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief ros...

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Van Skedine

Released

Van Skedine was sentenced in a federal court to one year in prison for refusing to register for the draft. Whi...

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John Sloan

Released

(This is the Illinois miner, not the Ashcan School painter of the same name.) First held for 'inciting to riot...

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Charles Thomas Smit

Released

Charles Thomas "Tom" Smit (March 7, 1944 - May 10, 2018) was one of the Chicago 15. On May 25, 1969 the group...

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William O. Smith

Released

William O. Smith was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Charles Sotis

Released

Charles Sotis was a Communist organizer of Chicago stockyards workers, beaten by police and charged with perju...