New York

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William Reside

Released

William Reside was a Delaware County, New York Anti-Renter imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unde...

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Rose Resnikoff

Released

Rose Resnikoff was a young Communist arrested in New York City in 1930 for distributing anti-militarist leafle...

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Luther F. Reynolds

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Luther F. Reynolds was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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Robert Rice

One of the "Harlem Six" — Black teenagers arrested in May 1964 and charged with the murder of clothing-store o...

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James Ricks

Released

James Ricks is a peace activist from Ithaca, New York who participated in the October 2012 protest at Hancock...

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John Riley

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Irish-born U.S. Army soldier who defected before the Mexican-American War and founded the San Patricio Battali...

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Pedro Antonio Rios

Pedro Antonio Rios was a 22-year-old Puerto Rican convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death in New Yor...

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Dennis Rivera

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Dennis Rivera, the Puerto Rico-born president of New York's 1199/SEIU health-care workers union — then one of...

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Martin Robbins

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Martin Robbins, a World War II veteran, was arrested with Olava Skottedal in Babylon, Long Island in 1951 for...

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Geraldine Robinson

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Geraldine Robinson was the co-defendant of Black militant and radical bookseller Martin Sostre, arrested with...

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Karl S. Robinson

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Karl S. Robinson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...

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Keyondre Robinson

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Keyondre Robinson, an 18-year-old from Buffalo, New York, was among those federally prosecuted after the May 3...

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John Roche

John Roche was convicted of murder in New York City. His defenders said the conviction rested on a confession...

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Charles Carlton Rodolph

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Charles Carlton Rodolph was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...

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Michael Rodriguez

Released

In 2020 in Brooklyn, NY, Michael Rodriguez, 32, a homeless man, was charged with attempting to damage governme...

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John Rooney

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John Rooney was one of four members of the Irish Workers' Club in the Bronx, New York arrested defending again...

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Lee Roper

Released

Lee Roper was a Black Panther Party member indicted in the April 2, 1969 New York Panther 21 conspiracy case....

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Andrés Rosado

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Andrés Rosado, with his brother Julio, was a Puerto Rican independence activist and grand jury resister, jaile...

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Julio Rosado

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Julio Rosado, with his brother Andrés, was a Puerto Rican independence activist and one of the well-known "gra...

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Luis Rosado

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New York-based MLN activist and brother of Julio and Andrés Rosado, jailed for civil contempt for refusing to...

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Linda Rosenstock

Released

Linda Rosenstock was an 18-year-old arrested in the April 28, 1961 New York civil-defense-drill protest agains...

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Alfonso Ross

One of the 'Attica Brothers' charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly taking hostages i...

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Arthur Roth

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Arthur Roth, from New York, New York, began serving a five-year prison sentence on July 18, 1918.

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Norman Roye

Norman Roye was a Black man with a New York murder conviction that his defenders repudiated as resting on a fo...