Illinois

Brian Vaillancourt

Released

Brian is an animal advocate arrested on February 9, 2013 in Chicago for an alleged attempted arson at a McDona...

Diego Vargas

Released

Diego Vargas, of Aurora, Illinois, was federally prosecuted for actions on two consecutive nights of the 2020...

George Voyzey

Released

George Voyzey was the Illinois state president of the National Miners' Union, jailed under numerous charges an...

Lee Weiner

Released

Lee Weiner was a sociology graduate student at Northwestern University and one of the two Chicago Eight defend...

Donna Willmott

Released

Donna Jean Willmott is most often documented as a long-term fugitive associated by federal authorities with Pu...

Robert Hugh Wilson

Released

Robert Hugh Wilson ("Standing Deer") was an enrolled Oneida from the Oneida Nations of Wisconsin and an active...

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Anthony J. Adams

Released

Anthony J. Adams was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I....

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Spartacio Alo

Released

Spartacio Alo, a lodge president in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, was among the strikers arrested in...

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Blair Anderson

Wounded survivor of the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's Chicago apartment; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi

Released

Adolfo Matos was arrested on April 4, 1980 at the FALN safe-house operation in Evanston, Illinois. He refused...

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Enaam M. Arnaout

Released

Enaam M. Arnaout, an Illinois man believed to have had connections to Osama bin Laden, ran a charity that the...

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Raziel Azuara

Released

Raziel Azuara — anti-NATO summit arrestee, Chicago, May 2012. Anti-NATO protest arrest, Chicago summit — disor...

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Arthur Bartl

Released

Arthur Bartl was the assistant editor of the Croatian-language weekly Narodni Glasnik, facing denaturalization...

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Buddy Bell

Released

Buddy R. Bell is a Voices for Creative Nonviolence organizer who has been arrested repeatedly for civil disobe...

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Harold Keith Bell

Released

Harold Keith Bell survived the December 4, 1969 Chicago raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and was a...

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George P. Beohm

Released

George P. Beohm, from Illinois, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.

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Brent Betterly

Released

Brent Betterly was one of the "NATO 3," arrested before the 2012 Chicago NATO summit and acquitted of terroris...

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Aaron Bindman

Released

Aaron Bindman was a student at the University of Illinois at Champaign who was arrested and beaten by police i...

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Thomas Blair

Released

One of the 'Stateville Four,' Black prisoners at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois framed for the 197...

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Herman Blass

Released

Herman Blass was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...

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Verlina Brewer

Wounded survivor of the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's Chicago apartment; The Black Panther Vol. 1...

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LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy

Released

LeRoy Nathaniel Bundy Dentist and the principal Black political organizer in East St. Louis, Illinois at the t...

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Alfred Burmeister

Released

Alfred Burmeister was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

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Nathaniel Burse

Nathaniel Burse was a young Black man from Chicago's South Side and a member of De Mau Mau, an organization fo...