Illinois

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Esther Richman

Released

Esther Richman was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...

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Nicholas Riddell

Released

A Roman Catholic priest (Fr. Nick Riddell, age 39, the oldest of the group), he was one of the fifteen who bur...

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John Riffe

Released

John Riffe was a field director for the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee (SWOC, CIO) during the 1937 Little...

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Ken Rippetoe

Released

Ken Rippetoe was a member of the Catholic Worker in Rock Island, Illinois at the time of Silo Plowshares. Cat...

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Larry Roberson

Chicago chapter Black Panther Party member shot by Chicago police in July 1969, then held under police guard a...

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Roseanna Robinson

Released

Roseanna Robinson was a Black pacifist (a member of Peacemakers) jailed for a year and a day in 1960 for refus...

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Alberto Rodríguez

Released

Alberto Rodríguez became active in Puerto Rican community and independence politics as part of a generation pu...

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José Luis Rodríguez

Released

José Luis Rodríguez was one of four people arrested in the Chicago area on June 29, 1983 in a major FALN case...

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Félix Rosa

Released

Puerto Rican political prisoner held at Graham and Logan Correctional Centers in Illinois in connection with t...

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Charles Rothfiser

Released

Charles Rothfiser, the editor of the IWW's Hungarian language newspaper, from Chicago, Illinois, was convicted...

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Mike Rusniak

Released

Mike Rusniak was imprisoned in Illinois for taking a police car and other acts of anti-government property des...

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Jack Ryan

Released

Jack Ryan was a CIO organizer during the 1941 International Harvester strike in the Chicago area. When police...

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Jiesef Sabczak

Released

Jiesef Sabczak was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. C...

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Eleanor Sadlowski

Released

Eleanor Sadlowski was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Worker...

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Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah

Released

Muhammad Hamid Khalil Salah, 51, was indicted August 19, 2004 in Chicago for HAMAS recruitment / material supp...

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Ronald Satchel

Illinois Black Panther Party member shot four times surviving the Dec. 4, 1969 police raid on Fred Hampton's a...

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James Sayles

Chicago man convicted with Henry Dee and sentenced to death (May 1972), then to two consecutive 220-to-440-yea...

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Scott Scelye

Released

Scott Scelye appears on incarcerated-person contact lists associated with political prisoner support efforts a...

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William Schiller

In Exile

William Schiller, known as Bill, was a draft resister from suburban Chicago and an early recruit to the Peace...

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Sara Schneider

Released

Sara Schneider was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’...

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Scott Seclye

Released

Native American prisoner held at the federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois under number 02601-041, listed a...

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Ira Silbar

Released

Ira Silbar was the defense attorney for the three petition solicitors, himself jailed alongside his clients an...

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Rose Silver

Released

Rose Silver was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Uni...

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Norman Silverman

Released

Norman Silverman was arrested for distributing leaflets headed 'End Mob Rule in Cicero' after the 1951 anti-Bl...