Kentucky

John Johnson

In Custody

Grandmaster Jay was a United States Army veteran who in 2017 founded the Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC) w...

Anne Braden

Released

Anne Braden was a white civil-rights activist and journalist indicted for sedition in Louisville, Kentucky alo...

Theodore Dreiser

Released

Theodore Dreiser, the novelist and chairman of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners,...

Cortez Lamont Edwards

Released

Cortez Lamont Edwards, 29, of Louisville, KY was charged as a felon in possession of a firearm. On September 2...

Calvin Fairbank

Released

Calvin Fairbank was a Methodist minister and antislavery activist who helped enslaved people escape from Kentu...

Aunt Molly Jackson

Released

Aunt Molly Jackson was a midwife, balladeer and National Miners' Union activist of the Straight Creek section...

Channel Lewis

Federal conspiracy; lookout/driver in CVS pharmacy burglary during June 2020 Louisville unrest. Sentence: 7 mo...

Charles S. Morehead

Released

Charles S. Morehead was a former governor of Kentucky (1855–1859). Suspected of Confederate sympathies, he was...

Sarah Newman

Released

Sarah Newman was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the...

Jill Raymond

Released

Jill Raymond was a member of a Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist collective who became the longest-jailed o...

Mutulu Shakur

Released

Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams) was a former Black revolutionary as part of the Black Liberation Arm...

David Thornsbury

Released

Thornsbury was one of several striking union miners prosecuted in federal court after a coal-truck ambush duri...

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Theodore Bailey

Released

Theodore Bailey was a conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Ganzie Banks

Released

Ganzie Banks was one of the Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners indicted for murder and held facing the electr...

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Ann Barton

Released

Ann Barton was a writer arrested in the early days of the strike, jailed in the 4 January 1932 raid on the Nat...

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A. L. Benson

Released

A. L. Benson was an Evarts miner charged with murder in the Harlan case after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts,...

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William Darryl Blakemore

William Darryl Blakemore was a Louisville Seven defendant supported by the local Black Panther defense campaig...

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Vernon Bown

Released

Vernon Bown was a Lincoln Brigade veteran who guarded the Wade house after a Black family bought a home in a w...

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Carl Braden

Released

Carl Braden was a trade unionist, journalist, and activist who was known for his work in the civil rights move...

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F. M. Bratcher

Released

F. M. Bratcher was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of...

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W. M. Burnett

Released

W. M. Burnett was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of t...

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Willie Burnett

Black Kentucky man convicted in 1974 and sentenced to life without parole for the rape of a white woman he say...

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Walter Camp

Released

Walter Camp was a Gulston miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the...

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C. O. Chamblee

Released

C. O. Chamblee was an Evarts-area miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, on...