Michigan

Ardeth Platte

Released

Sister Ardeth Platte OP was a Dominican nun of the Grand Rapids Dominicans whose six decades of social-justice...

William Powell

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William Powell, of Detroit, Michigan, received a prison sentence of twenty years, which was commuted to two ye...

Nada Nadim Prouty

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Nada Nadim Prouty was a former Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation employee whose...

Siwatu-Salama Ra

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Siwatu-Salama Ra is an environmental and racial justice activist who served as director of East Michigan Envir...

Ahmad Rahman

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Ahmad A. Rahman (also known earlier in life as Ron Irwin) became associated with Black liberation-era organizi...

Ronald Raymond

Riot + attempted arson (burning mannequin into a police car), Grand Rapids May 30 2020. Sentence: 1 year Kent...

Conrad Rockenhaus

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U.S. Air Force veteran, longtime Tor relay and exit-node operator, and federal prisoner currently held at FCI...

John Sinclair

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John Sinclair was a Michigan-based poet, music organizer, and radical activist who fused counterculture politi...

Chase Vladamir Spencer

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Chase Spencer was charged in connection with property destruction during protests in downtown Grand Rapids, Mi...

Anthony J. Stopa

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Anthony J. Stopa, from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted for saying "young men are fools if they join the Army...

Henry Sweet

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Younger brother of Detroit physician Ossian Sweet and the family member who fired the shot that killed a white...

Ossian Sweet

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Black physician who, in September 1925, moved his family into a previously all-white Detroit neighborhood. The...

Michael Sykes

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Michael Sykes is an environmentalist anarchist from Lambertville, MI. At age 17, he was sentenced as an adult...

Ian Wallace

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Ian Wallace, age 27, was convicted in 2001 of attempting to cause damage in excess of $1,000 to United States...

Colin Weger

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Colin Weger is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prote...

Saul Wellman

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Saul Wellman was a Spanish Civil War veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a wounded U.S. Army veteran of th...

Helen Winter

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Helen Winter was a Communist and the wife of convicted Smith Act leader Carl Winter, prosecuted under the Smit...

Jonathan Zou

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Jonathan Zou is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...

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Addis Ababa

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Born Dennis Shillingford in Detroit. RNA citizen present at the Lewis Street raid. Convicted; served prison ti...

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Marc Aisen

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Marc William Aisen, 50, a Massachusetts man, was arrested in late 2023 and held in Oakland County Jail in Mich...

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William Allan

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William Allan was a Detroit Communist and labor writer for the Michigan Worker, convicted of conspiracy under...

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Billy Allen

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Billy Allen was one of six Detroit Smith Act defendants whose convictions were set aside after the Yates decis...

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Todor Antonoff

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Todor Antonoff was an Auto Workers Union organizer in the Detroit–Pontiac district held eleven months under $2...

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Rutha Blackburn

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Fugitive enslaved person arrested in Detroit on June 14, 1833 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 after being...