Pennsylvania

Stanton Story

Released

Stanton Story was a Black man from Pittsburgh who spent nearly five decades in Pennsylvania prisons after bein...

Leo Thompson

Released

Leo Thompson was a National Miners’ Union organizer and strike leader in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virgi...

Pat Toohey

Released

Pat Toohey was a young communist miner and editor of the insurgents' paper The Coal Digger. Pat Toohey was arr...

Harry W. Truitt Jr.

Released

Harry W. Truitt Jr. was a New Kensington dental technician and Progressive Party organizer who supported cloth...

Andrew Turner

Released

Andrew Turner was a Black truck driver from Chester, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Trade Union Unity Leagu...

James Veneris

In Exile

James Veneris was a U.S. Army private from Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, and one of 21 American Korean War prison...

George F. Voetter

Released

George F. Voetter was a blacksmith from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. George F. Voetter was convicted at the mass...

Elizabeth Walz

Released

Elizabeth Walz is associated with Christian pacifist direct action and the Plowshares movement tradition of sy...

Sarah Wasilewski

Released

Activist from Pennsylvania arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in A...

Goldie Watson

Released

Goldie Watson was a Black former Philadelphia teacher cited in 1954 for refusing, on First and Fifth Amendment...

Chaim Weinberg

Released

Chaim Weinberg was a Philadelphia Jewish anarchist, cloakmakers'-union organizer, and popular Yiddish-language...

Jay Weiner

Released

Jay Weiner was a roughly 20-year-old aspiring sportswriter and Temple University student who was taken to the...

Louis Werner

Released

Louis Werner was from eastern Pennsylvania. Louis Werner served in Atlanta Penitentiary from December 30, 1918...

Christopher Alan West

Released

Da'Jon Lengyel and Christopher Alan West damaged and destroyed by fire a Pittsburgh police vehicle and damaged...

Passmore Williamson

Released

Passmore Williamson was a Philadelphia abolitionist, secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and U...

Robert Williamson

Released

Robert Williamson was 22 at indictment and employed as a caseworker for the Pennsylvania Department of Public...

Stevie Wilson

Stevie Wilson, also known as Stephen Wilson, is a Black queer abolitionist writer and organizer. While impriso...

Alexa Wise

Released

Alexa Wise participated in Lancaster’s September 2020 racial-justice protest following the police killing of R...

Clayton J. Woodworth

Released

Clayton J. Woodworth was the primary co-author of The Finished Mystery (1917). Indicted with Joseph Rutherford...

Bob Young

Released

Bob Young, also identified as Robert Young, was a National Miners' Union striker arrested on the Wildwood pick...

Tom Zima

Released

Tom Zima was a member of the Communist Party from Woodlawn, now Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and one of the defend...

Voltairine de Cleyre

Released

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist writer, essayist, poet, and orator, and a central figure in Phi...

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David Elmakayes

In Custody

David Elmakayes was charged in connection with a series of ATM bombings that occurred in Philadelphia during t...

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Jonathan Hunter Kramer

In Custody

Jonathan Hunter Kramer was arrested on September 12, 2026 after federal agents alleged that he obtained a semi...