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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.
237Documented
6In custody
230Released
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 12
2010s 8
1800s 8
1970s 6
Documented cases
237 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Josephine Collins
Released
Josephine Collins was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
Released
Sarah Lightfoot Tarleton Colvin (September 12, 1865 - April 22, 1949) was a member of the National Woman’s Par...
Jacob Coxey
Released
Jacob Sechler Coxey Sr. was the Ohio businessman who led "Coxey's Army," the first significant march of unempl...
Gertrude Crocker
Released
Gertrude Crocker was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned durin...
L. J. C. Daniels
Released
L. J. C. Daniels was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned durin...
Jonathan Darnel
Released
Jonathan Darnel, 40, of Arlington VA, DC Nine co-defendant; livestreamed the October 22, 2020 Washington Surgi...
Edna Dixon
Released
Edna Dixon was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
Lavinia Lloyd Dock
Released
Lavinia Lloyd Dock Pioneer of American nursing — co-founder of what became the National League for Nursing, au...
Mary Carroll Dowell
Released
Mary Carroll Dowell was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned du...
Daniel Drayton
Released
Daniel Drayton was a captain of the schooner Pearl, which in April 1848 attempted the largest single escape fr...
Mary Dubrow
Released
Mary Dubrow was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
Elizabeth Duke
Released
White anti-imperialist activist indicted as a co-defendant in the Resistance Conspiracy case tied to the 1983...
Julia Emory
Released
Julia Ridgely Emory (May 4, 1885 - February 1, 1979) was a Maryland member of the National Woman's Party and o...
Rebecca Winsor Evans
Released
Rebecca Winsor Evans (born 1877 or 1879 - July 25, 1959) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of...
Lucy Ewing
Released
Lucy Ewing was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
Estella Eylward
Released
Estella Ladds Eylward, formerly Estella Vouraka, was born in New Mexico in 1880 and was a member of the Nation...
Walter Edward Fauntroy
Released
Walter Fauntroy was the District of Columbia's first elected nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House (1971-1991)...
Mary Gertrude Fendall
Released
Mary Gertrude Fendall was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned...
Katharine Fisher
Released
Katharine Fisher was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned durin...
Rose Fishstein
Released
Rose Fishstein was a Philadelphia businesswoman and a member of the National Woman's Party, one of the "Silent...
Catherine M. Flanagan
Released
Catherine M. Flanagan was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned...
Abram Flaxer
Released
Abram Flaxer was president of the United Public Workers union who refused to surrender the union's membership...
Martha Foley
Released
Martha Foley was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during th...
Janet Fotheringham
Released
Janet Fotheringham was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
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