West Virginia

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H. E. Kirchner

Released

H. E. Kirchner, from Elizabeth, West Virginia, began serving a prison sentence in March 1918. He was convicted...

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Kevin Kuenster

Released

Kevin Kuenster participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Vir...

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Jerry Dale Lowe

Released

Jerry Dale Lowe, a safety committeeman from Logan County, West Virginia, who was framed up for the shooting de...

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John M. Lynch

Released

John M. Lynch was a West Virginia coal miner serving a ten-year sentence at the Moundsville penitentiary on wh...

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Catherine Ann MacDougal

Released

Catherine Ann MacDougal, known as Squirrel, participated in the Coal River Mountain tree sit and a coal-barge...

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Raymond McSurley

Released

Raymond McSurley was a West Virginia labor prisoner serving a twelve-year sentence at the Moundsville penitent...

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Sophia Morgan

Released

Sophia Morgan participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virg...

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Ernest Mullins

Released

Ernest Mullins was a West Virginia miner serving ninety-nine years at Moundsville on a murder frame-up from th...

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C. M. Nelson

Released

C. M. Nelson was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in Moundsville Penitentiary from September 13, 19...

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Osip Orloff

Released

Osip Orloff was a Russian-born coal miner arrested with a comrade near Farmington, West Virginia in July 1932...

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Van Pham

Released

Van Pham participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia....

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Pete Radocowich

Released

Pete Radocowich was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after...

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Clark Santee

Released

Clark Santee participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virgi...

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Charlie Slom

Released

Charlie Slom began serving a prison sentence on September 13, 1918, in Moundsville Penitentiary.

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Matthew K. Smith

Released

Matthew K. Smith participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West V...

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Tony Stafford

Released

Tony Stafford, an Italian-born union coal miner, was imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsvil...

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Dustin Steele

Released

Dustin Steele is a West Virginia activist who joined the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal c...

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Joseph Tracz

Released

Joseph Tracz was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after the...

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George Vest

Released

George Vest participated in the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virgin...

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Charles H. Waters

Released

Charles H. Waters was a conscientious objector from West Virginia imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Robert Webber

Released

Robert Webber was framed on a "dynamite" charge and sentenced to one to ten years at the Moundsville penitenti...

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Oscar Wheeler

Released

Oscar O. Wheeler was the Communist Party's candidate for governor of West Virginia, sentenced to six to fiftee...

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Dorian Williams

Released

Dorian Williams is an environmental activist who participated in the RAMPS Hobet mine action while studying at...

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James Woods

Released

James Woods, from Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced to three years in prison and served in Atlanta Penite...