Ohio

Siddique Abdullah Hasan

In Custody

Siddique Abdullah Hasan, born Carlos Sanders, is an Imam and an Ohio death row prisoner sentenced for his alle...

Namir Abdul Mateen

In Custody

Black Muslim prisoner at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, sentenced to death for the killing of correction...

Brandon Pack

In Custody

Brandon Pack is an Ohio man who was arrested during George Floyd/BLM protests in Columbus in May 2020 for shoo...

Lil Andrews

Released

Lil Andrews, the Young Communist League district organizer for Ohio, was convicted under Ohio's criminal-syndi...

Martino Andrews

Released

Martino Andrews is an Ohio activist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson for torching a county van...

Graham Ball

Released

Graham Ball, 26, March 2024 Boeing Heath OH blockade defendant. Pleaded guilty; ~30 days.

Brandon Baxter

Released

Brandon Baxter was an activist associated with the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30, 201...

Eli Boies

Released

Eli Boies was a Wellington, Ohio abolitionist among the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for t...

Louis Budenz

Released

Louis Budenz was a strike leader in the Toledo Auto-Lite strike of May 1934, when thirty-one strikers were cha...

Lotta Burke

Released

Lotta Burke was a Cincinnati garment worker, labour leader, suffragist, Socialist, pacifist and women's-rights...

Simeon Bushnell

Released

Simeon Bushnell was an Oberlin, Ohio bookseller and one of the leaders of the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue o...

John Anthony Copeland Jr.

John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a free Black abolitionist from Oberlin, Ohio, where he had been involved in the...

Gregory Curry

Gregory Curry is freedom fighter and a current inmate who faced brutal retaliation from the Ohio Dept. of Reha...

Barbara Curzi-Laaman

Released

Barbara Curzi-Laaman was a member of the United Freedom Front and the partner of Jaan Karl Laaman. She was arr...

John Douglas

Released

John Douglas, from Zanesville, Ohio, began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 26, 1918. He was convi...

John E. Downey

Released

John E. Downey was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...

Nancy Epling

Released

Nancy Jane Epling, 32, was one of five protesters who blocked access roads to a Boeing facility in Heath OH on...

Ahmed Evans

Released

Black nationalist leader convicted of first-degree murder for the July 1968 Glenville shootout in Cleveland wi...

Henry Evans

Released

Henry Evans, a free Black cabinetmaker in Oberlin, Ohio (brother of fellow rescuer Wilson Bruce Evans), was on...

Wilson Bruce Evans

Released

Wilson Bruce Evans, a free Black cabinetmaker in Oberlin, Ohio (brother of fellow rescuer Henry Evans), was on...

James M. Fitch

Released

James M. Fitch, an Oberlin, Ohio bookseller and Sabbath-school superintendent, was one of the twenty men jaile...

Joseph Geier

Released

Joseph Geier, from Ohio, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison and served in Atlanta Penitentiary.

Matthew Gillett

Released

Matthew Gillett, an elderly Wellington, Ohio farmer, was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga Count...

O. E. Gordon

Released

O. E. Gordon, a shoemaker from Columbus, Ohio, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and sentenced to...