California

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Henry Leyvas

Released

Lead defendant in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, accused by Los Angeles County prosecutors of being the ringl...

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Albert Lima

Released

Albert 'Mickey' Lima was a Northern California Communist Party leader arrested in San Francisco in the July 19...

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Bear Lincoln

Released

Eugene Bear Lincoln, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, was charged with murder after...

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G. Lindfors

Released

G. Lindfors, from Los Angeles, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from July...

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Ethel Linn

Released

Ethel Linn was brought from Canada as a child and arrested in Los Angeles in 1953 for deportation on hearsay o...

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Russell Little

Released

Early member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who, with Joseph Remiro, was convicted of the November 6, 1973...

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Vincent Lombardo

Released

Vincent Lombardo was one of the activists arrested when Santa Cruz police sparked a melee during a May 22, 200...

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James La Londe

Released

James La Londe, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Qu...

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Robin Long

Released

Specialist Robin Long was a U.S. Army soldier who refused deployment to Iraq in 2005 and went absent without l...

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Mark Loo

Released

Mark Loo, a Chinese-American member of the Communist Workers Party, was one of the "NASSCO 3," three San Diego...

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Sandra Loranger

Released

Sandra Loranger was a Santa Cruz activist sentenced to 30 days in jail for making soup for the homeless in San...

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Peter Lynch

Released

Peter Lynch was an IWW delegate organizing agricultural laborers around Calipatria, in California's Imperial V...

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Thomas Lyons

Released

Thomas Lyons, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Qu...

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James MacInnis

Released

James MacInnis was a defense lawyer for labor leader Harry Bridges who was cited for contempt of court during...

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Gus Madsen

Released

Gus Madsen was a class-war prisoner held at San Quentin (inmate no. 44461), listed on the ILD's roster of Amer...

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Michael Henry Marcus

Released

Michael Henry Marcus was an anti-nuclear protester and Berkeley Free Speech Movement participant who later bec...

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James Martin

Released

James Martin, an IWW member, received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from March 1...

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Christian Martinez

Released

Christian Martinez was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution of...

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Gines Martinez

Released

Gines Martinez was one of five Spanish sailors who deserted Franco's navy and sought asylum in the United Stat...

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Mario Martinez

Released

Mario Martinez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San F...

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Tony Martinez

Released

Tony Martinez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San Fr...

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Fred Masson

Released

Fred Masson appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...

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Keith Mather

Released

Keith Mather was a U.S. Army private and one of the leaders of the "Presidio 27," the stockade prisoners at th...

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Henry Matlin

Released

Henry Matlin was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's crimi...