Massachusetts

Dirk Struik

Released

Dirk Jan Struik was a world-renowned MIT mathematician and historian of science indicted by a Middlesex County...

Bethany Terrill

Awaiting Trial

Bethany Abigail Terrill, of Malden, Massachusetts, was charged on October 16, 2025 with threatening a United S...

Henry David Thoreau

Released

Henry David Thoreau, the Transcendentalist writer and naturalist, spent a night in the Concord, Massachusetts...

Anne Timpson

Released

Anne Burlak Timpson, known as "the Red Flame," was a legendary labor organizer and Massachusetts Communist Par...

Kazi Toure

Released

Toure—born Christopher King—became part of the United Freedom Front’s underground politics in the late 1970s a...

William Monroe Trotter

Released

William Monroe Trotter was a civil-rights editor arrested after the July 30, 1903 Boston meeting where he chal...

Robert Valeri

Released

Robert Valeri was one of the five involved in the September 23, 1970 robbery of the State Street Bank and Trus...

Harvey Franklin Wasserman

Released

Co-founded Liberation News Service in 1967 and helped move it to the Montague Farm in Massachusetts in 1968. C...

David Webb

Released

David Webb is a police-accountability activist, a self-described instigative journalist and First Amendment au...

Richard Williams

Released

Richard Williams was associated with the United Freedom Front and the broader U.S. radical underground of the...

Elizur Wright

Released

Abolitionist newspaper editor (Boston Chronotype, Commonwealth) and Boston Vigilance Committee organizer. Pros...

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Peter Almeida

Peter Almeida remained jailed after the July 1970 New Bedford Panther raid.

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Thomas P. Beach

Released

Thomas P. Beach was a Garrisonian abolitionist and nonresistant who was among those jailed for carrying the an...

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Sam Bell

Black man imprisoned at the Deer Island House of Correction for defending himself and his baby daughter during...

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Edith Berkman

Released

Edith Berkman was an NTWU organizer choked and beaten in a raid on strike headquarters, held without bail for...

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Jos. A. Berman

Released

Jos. A. Berman was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...

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Fred Biedenkapp

Released

Fred Biedenkapp was a strike leader held at the East Boston immigration detention station in the 1931 Lawrence...

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Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop, also recorded as Wesley Bishop, was a Black defendant jailed during Boston’s 1854 prosecution o...

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John Boampong

Released

On June 1, 2020 around 3 a.m., Boampong was driving near Arlington & Boylston in Boston in front of a store th...

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Earl Brown

Black University of Massachusetts football player convicted in the same 1974 Amherst robbery frame-up as Craem...

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Alex Chasley

Released

Alex Chasley was a conscientious objector from Massachusetts imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

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John C. Cluer

Released

John C. Cluer was an abolitionist speaker jailed in Boston during the prosecution of people accused of attempt...

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Joseph M. Coldwell

Released

Joseph M. Coldwell, from Providence, Rhode Island, was convicted under the Espionage and Sedition Acts for pub...

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Frank Collier

Released

Frank Collier was a Boston Communist arrested in 1954 in the New England roundup of Smith Act defendants durin...