Can't Jail the Spirit

Political Prisoners and POW's Released
from US federal and state prisons in recent years

Last updated on February 10, 2007

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° list of political prisoners currently held in US federal and state prisons
° list of political prisoners who have died while in federal or state custody.

Compiled by the Prison Activist Resource Center. For other PP/POW-related resources, go to our political prisoner page.

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The friends, activists, and comrades below used to be
on the political prisoner list,
so if you are looking for their address,
they're on the outside now!
(most recent first, more or less, and an incomplete list)

Peter Young
released February 2007
www.supportpeter.com

William Taylor (Bill) Harris
released October 2006

Silvia Baraldini released
as part of larger prisoner release by the Italian government, September 2006
www.justice-for-silvia.org and prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/silvia.html

Susan Crane released October 2006
www.jonahhouse.org and www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister

Jerome Zawada released August 2, 2006
www.soaw.org

Robert Thaxton released June 2006

Heriberto Hernandez Carmona released

Nestor de Jesus Guishard released

Aaron Shuman released July 2005
www.soaw.org

Fr. Louis Vitale released July 2006
www.soaw.org

Raymond Luc Levasseur released
home.earthlink.net/~neoludd

Sundiata Lumumba paroled

Daud Obida Tulam paroled

Juan Segarra Palmer released January 2004

Kathy Boudin paroled September 17, 2003

Philip Berrigan - died December 6, 2002
www.jonahhouse.org

Dr. José Solís Jordán
Released November 2002
prolibertadweb.tripod.com/page29.html

Fr. Carl Kabat
Released June 5, 2002; rearrested 2006, see www.jonahhouse.org
cndyorks.gn.apc.org/news/articles/kabat3.htm

Mary Lou Benson
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

David Corcoran
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

Russell De Young
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

John Ewers
www.soaw.org and poetics.org/DaytonPOR/john.htm
Released January 2002

John (Jack) Gilroy
www.soaw.org/
Released Fall 2002

Claire Marie Hanrahan
www.soaw.org/
Released January 2002

Rachel Louise Hayward
www.soaw.org/
Released January 2002

Sr. Dorothy Marie Hennessey
www.soaw.org/
Released January 2002

Sr. Gwen Hennessey
www.soaw.org/
Released January 2002

Rita Hohenshell
www.soaw.org

William Houston, Jr.,
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

John Alfred Hunt Jr.
www.soaw.org

Steve Jacobs
www.soaw.org

Rebecca Kanner
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

Richard John Kinane
www.boulderweekly.com/archive/011702/newsspin.html
Released January 2002

Elizabeth McKenzie
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

Karl Meyer
www.soaw.org
Released Fall 2002

Lois Putzier
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

Eric Robison
www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/nr1242dozen.html
and www.soaw.org/POC.html

Erin Sieber
www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister

Sr. Miriam Spencer
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/33104_nun28.shtml and
www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/nr1242dozen.html and
www.soaw.org/POC.html
Released January 2002

Hazel Tulecke
Released Fall 2002
www.soaw.org

Mary Alice Vaughan
www.soaw.org
Released January 2002

Scott Kenji Warren
www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister

Jihad Abdul Mu'mit
Released Fall 2002

Martin Quigley
Released Fall 2002

Fred Hampton, Jr.
Released September 2001

Standing Deer aka Robert Wilson
Released September 2001

Robert "King" Wilkerson
Released Feb. 2001
prisonactivist.org/angola

Linda Evans
Sentence commuted by Pres. Clinton January 20, 2001
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/linda.html

Susan Rosenberg
Sentence commuted by Pres. Clinton January 20, 2001

Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs granted clemency

Edwin Cortés
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/edwin.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/edwin-cortes.html

Elizam Escobar
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/elizam.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/elizam-escobar.html

Ricardo Jiménez
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/ricardo.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/ricardo-jimenez.html

Adolfo Matos
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/adolfo-matos.html and
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/adolfo.htm

Dylcia Pagán
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/dylcia-pagan.html and
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/dylcia.htm

Alberto Rodríguez
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Chicago
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/alberto.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/alberto-rodriguez.html

Alicia Rodríguez
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/alicia-rodriguez.html and
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/alicia.htm

Ida Luz (Lucy) Rodríguez
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/ida-luz-rodriguez.html and
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/lucy.htm

Luis Rosa
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
http://www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/luis.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/luis-rosa.html

Alejandrina Torres
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Chicago
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/alejandrina-torres.html and
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/alejandrina.htm

Carmen Valentín
Granted clemency September 1999; welcomed back to Puerto Rico
www.wco.com/~boricua/POWS/carmen.htm and
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/carmen-valentin.html

Mark Cook
www.xs4all.nl/~tank/mark.htm and
www.thestranger.com/1999-10-14/city2.html

Richard Johnson
Released onto parole October 19, 1999.

Laura Whitehorn
Released August 1999
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/laurawhitehorn.html

Lorenzo Stone-Bey
Released from Indiana 1999

Abdul Haqq
Released from New York 1999

Rickke Green
Released from Oklahoma 1999

Geronimo ji-jaga
GERONIMO IS FREE!!! 1998

Claude Marks
Released November 1998

Kevin Artt, Pol Brennan and Terry Kirby (Irish H-Block 3)
Released on bond in October 1998

Donna Willmott
Released 1997

Norma Jean Croy
Released February 7, 1997

Gerry McGeough
Released February 1996

Ida McCray Robinson
Released 1995

Lynn Frederiksson

Bruce Friedrich

Ed Mead

Bo Brown

This page is maintained by the Prison Activist Resource Center. Please send updates and corrections to parc@prisonactivist.org.

Can't Jail the Spirit

Political Prisoners and POW's Released from US federal and state prisons in recent years

FREE!!

Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs granted clemency

Political Prisoners and POW's Released
from US federal and state prisons in recent years