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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 District of Columbia.
235Documented
6In custody
228Released
Eras of repression in District of Columbia
Where District of Columbia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 159
2020s 19
1980s 11
2010s 8
1800s 8
1970s 6
Documented cases
235 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Floyd Lee Corkins II
In Custody
Floyd Lee Corkins II, 29, walked into the Family Research Council offices in DC on August 15, 2012 with a gun...
Charles Littlejohn
In Custody
Charles Edward Littlejohn is a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor who was sentenced to five year...
Diego Alfonso Navarrete Beltran
In Custody
Diego Alfonso Navarrete Beltran, age 44, FARC member; extradited and pleaded guilty in connection with the 200...
Roman Sterlingov
In Custody
Roman Sterlingov is a Russian-Swedish dual national who has been in U.S. federal custody since his April 2021...
Pauline Adams
Released
Pauline Adams Dublin-born suffragist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1898 and founded the Norfolk Equal Suffrage...
Edith Mary Ainge
Released
Edith Mary Ainge English-born Jamestown, NY suffragist who served as treasurer of the National Woman's Party....
Berthe Arnold
Released
Berthe Louise Arnold Knorr (June 14, 1896 - December 30, 1968) was a Colorado Springs schoolteacher, a member...
Virginia Arnold
Released
Virginia Arnold was a North Carolina teacher, National Woman's Party organizer and one of the first six suffra...
Lillian Ascough
Released
Lillian Ascough was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during...
Abby Scott Baker
Released
Abby Pearce Scott Baker (July 24, 1871 - May 13, 1944) was a National Woman’s Party lobbyist and one of the "S...
Joan Bell
Released
Joan Andrews Bell, a longtime Catholic pro-life activist from Montague, New Jersey, was one of the "DC Nine" c...
Josephine Bennett
Released
Josephine Beach Day Bennett (May 4, 1880 - June 12, 1961), listed in the contemporary records as Mrs. M. Tosca...
James G. Berrett
Released
James G. Berrett was the mayor of Washington, D.C., arrested in August 1861 after he refused to take a federal...
Mary Frances Berry
Released
Mary Frances Berry is a historian, lawyer, and longtime civil-rights advocate who served on the U.S. Commissio...
Catherine Boyle
Released
Catherine Magdalen Thornton Boyle (born 1879 - March 11, 1955) was a member of the National Woman's Party and...
Lucy Gwynne Branham
Released
Lucy Gwynne Branham was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned du...
Eunice Dana Brannan
Released
Eunice Dana Brannan was a New York Silent Sentinel and daughter of newspaper editor Charles A. Dana. Arrested...
Ernest Bromley
Released
Ernest Bromley was an American minister, Quaker and civil rights and peace activist. A founding member of the...
Louise Bryant
Released
Louise Bryant was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
Lucy Burns
Released
Lucy Burns Alice Paul's closest collaborator in the National Woman's Party; suffragist who served the most pri...
Maria Butina
Released
Maria Valeryevna Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist and American University graduate student born in Barnau...
Jonathan Butler
Released
Jonathan Butler, age 29, of Washington DC, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Agnes Chase
Released
Mary Agnes Chase (April 20, 1869 - September 24, 1963) was a botanist and a member of the National Woman's Par...
Josephine Collins
Released
Josephine Collins was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
Institutions in District of Columbia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in District of Columbia that appear in the census’s case files.
District of Columbia JailWashington, District of Columbia
7 cases
District of Columbia Department of CorrectionsWashington, District of Columbia
6 cases
Washington County JailWashington, District of Columbia
5 cases
War Tax ResistanceWashington, District of Columbia
4 cases
D.C. Central Detention FacilityWashington, District of Columbia
2 cases
Old Capitol PrisonWashington, District of Columbia
2 cases
U.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaWashington, District of Columbia
2 cases
Washington, D.C. JailWashington, District of Columbia
1 case