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Delaware
Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Delaware.
32Documented
1In custody
25Released
Eras of repression in Delaware
Where Delaware’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 20
1970s 7
1910s 4
2020s 1
Documented cases
32 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Charles E. McPherson
Released
Charles E. McPherson was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-marti...
R
Ronald Payne
One of the 'Smyrna 7,' Black prisoners at the Delaware Correctional Center prosecuted over a May 1976 escape a...
F
Frank A. Price
Released
Frank A. Price, of Delaware, was one of the Delaware 'politicals,' whose trunk and clothing were withheld by t...
W
William C. Rust
Released
William C. Rust, of Sussex County, Delaware, was one of six Sussex County, Delaware citizens 'charged with dis...
W
Wilbur Shabazz
One of the 'Smyrna 7' convicted of escape-related charges at the Delaware Correctional Center; The Black Panth...
W
William L. Wier
Released
William L. Wier, of Delaware, was a young Delawarean of strong Southern proclivities held as a political priso...
A
Adrian Wood
Released
Adrian Wood, 21, was charged with one count of civil disorder in Wilmington, DE. Wood threw a brick through th...
E
Edward Worrell
Released
Edward Worrell, of Delaware City, Delaware, was a physician and Southern man charged, without evidence, with h...
Institutions in Delaware
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Delaware that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort DelawareDelaware City, Delaware
57 cases
Delaware Correctional CenterSmyrna, Delaware
6 cases
James T. Vaughn Correctional CenterSmyrna, Delaware
1 case