Tennessee

Manuel Durán Ortega

Released

Manuel Durán Ortega is a Salvadoran journalist with Memphis Noticias. He was arrested while covering a Memphis...

Clarence Adams

In Exile

Clarence Adams was a U.S. Army corporal from Memphis and one of 21 American Korean War prisoners who refused r...

William Allen

Released

William Allen, Tennessee prisoner number 66843, was listed by PFOC Breakthrough as a New Afrikan political pri...

Dominic D. Brown

Released

Dominic D. Brown, 18, of Knoxville, TN was charged with riots and civil disorder after posting profane Snapcha...

William G. Brownlow

Released

William G. Brownlow was a Tennessee Unionist, Methodist preacher, and editor of the Knoxville Whig, through wh...

Larry Bushart

Released

Larry Bushart is a retired Tennessee law enforcement officer with a 34-year career in policing and 24 years of...

Guy Hughes Carawan Jr.

Released

Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. was a musician, educator, and civil-rights organizer arrested during a police raid on t...

Jesse Clark

Released

Aggravated arson of Nashville Metro Courthouse (May 30 2020). Sentence: 12 years TN state prison. Verified via...

Matthew DeHart

Released

Matt is a former US Air National Guard drone team member and alleged WikiLeaks courier who worked with the hac...

Amos Dresser

Released

Amos Dresser was a student at Lane Seminary. Amos Dresser was seized in Nashville, Tennessee in 1835 while tra...

Fyke Farmer

Released

Fyke Farmer was a Nashville lawyer, peace activist, and war-tax resister who challenged federal income-tax col...

Tondrique J. Fitzgerald

Released

Tondrique Fitzgerald, 23, was arrested on June 1, 2020 and charged with aggravated rioting and vandalism for e...

James Forman

Released

James Forman served as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1961 to 1966,...

David Fry

Released

David Fry was an East Tennessee Unionist. David Fry led the party that burned the Lick Creek railroad bridge i...

Chester Gallagher

Released

Chester Gallagher, 73, lead defendant in the March 5, 2021 Mt. Juliet TN reproductive-health clinic blockade b...

Nadja Geier

Released

Nadja Geier, 24, is an activist from Nashville, Tennessee. On January 21, 2023, she was arrested during a prot...

Christopher Haun

Released

Christopher Haun was a well-known Greene County potter. Christopher Haun was among the East Tennessee Unionist...

Adam Lee Heimerman

Released

Adam Lee Heimerman, an independent candidate for Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District, was arrested on July...

R. B. C. Howell

Released

R. B. C. Howell was a Nashville First Baptist pastor. R. B. C. Howell was jailed in 1862 on Andrew Johnson’s o...

LaSaunders Hudson

Released

LaSaunders Hudson was a Memphis dry-cleaning business owner who refused to pay state taxes as a protest agains...

Zoe Larmey

Released

Zoe Larmey is an activist from Tennessee who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Traini...

James Lawson

Released

Reverend James M. Lawson Jr. was the principal teacher of nonviolent direct action to the Southern civil right...

Gilbert Lewis

Released

Gilbert Lewis was a Black Trade Union Unity League organizer. Gilbert Lewis was sentenced to a chain-gang sent...

Shelby Ligons

Released

Shelby Ligons, 22, of Nashville, charged August 3, 2020 with malicious destruction of property by fire after s...