• Kalief Browder (2010s): Held for three years in New York's Rikers Island without trial, enduring two years of solitary confinement, for a crime he did not commit, leading to his suicide.

• Fred Korematsu (1940s): Was convicted for refusing to enter Japanese American internment camps, a case that highlighted severe violations of due process and equal protection.

• Malala Yousafzai (2012): A teenage activist shot by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education.

• Lois Curtis (1990s): A woman with developmental disabilities committed to a state hospital against her will, whose case led to a landmark supreme court ruling regarding the right to live in the community rather than in unnecessary segregation.

• The Central Park Five (1989): Five young men of color were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned after police coerced confessions, violating their rights to due process.