Pennsylvania

Edward Sistrunk

Released

Omar Askia Ali was a member of the Nation of Islam who was leading a political campaign to improve conditions...

Mike Sklovski

Released

Mike Sklovski was a Gilmore striker beaten and arrested during the National Miners' Union coal strike that swe...

Anthony Smith

Released

Anthony David Ale Smith, with co-defendants Carlos Matchett and Khalif Miller, indicted October 20, 2020 for t...

Justin Solondz

Released

Justin Solondz is an environmentalist activist and former member of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an organ...

John L. Spivak

Released

John L. Spivak was an anti-fascist investigative journalist — author of 'Secret Armies,' exposing native fasci...

Max Stanford

Released

Maxwell "Max" Stanford (later Muhammad Ahmad) was a co-founder and national field chairman of the Revolutionar...

Stanton Story

Released

Stanton Story was a Black man from Pittsburgh who spent nearly five decades in Pennsylvania prisons after bein...

Leo Thompson

Released

Leo Thompson was a National Miners’ Union organizer and strike leader in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virgi...

Pat Toohey

Released

Pat Toohey was a young communist miner and editor of the insurgents' paper The Coal Digger. Pat Toohey was arr...

Harry W. Truitt Jr.

Released

Harry W. Truitt Jr. was a New Kensington dental technician and Progressive Party organizer who supported cloth...

Gary Tucker

Gary was a prisoner in SCI Camp Hill’s Special Management Unit named in a report alleging abuse on January 20,...

Andrew Turner

Released

Andrew Turner was a Black truck driver from Chester, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Trade Union Unity Leagu...

James Veneris

In Exile

James Veneris was a U.S. Army private from Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, and one of 21 American Korean War prison...

George F. Voetter

Released

George F. Voetter was a blacksmith from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. George F. Voetter was convicted at the mass...

Elizabeth Walz

Released

Elizabeth Walz is associated with Christian pacifist direct action and the Plowshares movement tradition of sy...

Sarah Wasilewski

Released

Sarah was an activist from Pennsylvania arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaune...

Goldie Watson

Released

Goldie Watson was a Black former Philadelphia teacher cited in 1954 for refusing, on First and Fifth Amendment...

Chaim Weinberg

Released

Chaim Weinberg was a Philadelphia Jewish anarchist, cloakmakers'-union organizer, and popular Yiddish-language...

Jay Weiner

Released

Jay Weiner was a roughly 20-year-old aspiring sportswriter and Temple University student who was taken to the...

Louis Werner

Released

Louis Werner was from eastern Pennsylvania. Louis Werner served in Atlanta Penitentiary from December 30, 1918...

Christopher Alan West

Released

Christopher Alan West was arrested on May 30, 2020. Da'Jon Lengyel and Christopher Alan West damaged and dest...

Passmore Williamson

Released

Passmore Williamson was a Philadelphia abolitionist, secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and U...

Robert Williamson

Released

Robert Williamson was 22 at indictment and employed as a caseworker for the Pennsylvania Department of Public...

Stevie Wilson

Stevie Wilson, also known as Stephen Wilson, is a Black queer abolitionist writer and organizer. While impriso...