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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.
Matilda Hall Gardner
Released
Washington, DC suffragist and Silent Sentinel arrested for picketing the Wilson White House for women's right...
Alice Gram
Released
Alice M. Gram (March 16, 1895 - January 24, 1984), later Alice M. Gram Robinson, was a member of the National...
Betty Gram
Released
Betty Gram was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
Natalie Gray
Released
Natalie Gray was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during th...
William Thomas Hallenback Jr.
Released
William Thomas, also known as Doubting Thomas, maintained a long-running anti-nuclear vigil opposite the White...
Lauren Handy
Released
Lauren Handy is a Catholic anti-abortion activist who organized a coordinated October 22, 2020 blockade of the...
Ernestine Hara
Released
Ernestine Hara (January 25, 1896 - November 1, 1978), later Ernestine Hara Kettler, was a member of the Nation...
Paula Harlow
Released
Paulette "Paula" Harlow, a Catholic from Kingston, Massachusetts, and the sister of fellow defendant Jean Mars...
Louisine Havemeyer
Released
Louisine Havemeyer was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
Kate Heffelfinger
Released
Kate Heffelfinger was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
Jessica Henderson
Released
Jessica Henderson was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
Minnie Hennessy
Released
Minnie Hennessy was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during...
Anna Herkner
Released
Anna Herkner (1879 - December 3, 1959) was a Baltimore child-labor inspector, a member of the National Woman's...
Elsie Hill
Released
Elsie Hill was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
John Hinshaw
Released
John Hinshaw, 67, of Levittown NY, DC Nine co-defendant in the October 22, 2020 Washington Surgi-Clinic blocka...
Hazel Hunkins
Released
Hazel Hunkins was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
Julia Hurlbut
Released
Julia Hurlbut was a New Jersey National Woman's Party organizer arrested on July 14, 1917 for picketing the Wi...
Mary Ingham
Released
Mary Ingham was a Philadelphia suffragist arrested on July 14, 1917 for picketing the Wilson White House for w...
Paula Jakobi
Released
Paula Jakobi was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during th...
Maud Jamison
Released
Maud Jamison was a Virginia Silent Sentinel and one of the movement's longest-serving repeat prisoners. She wa...
Amy Juengling
Released
Amy Juengling (December 9, 1886 - January 16, 1974), recorded more fully as Regina Amy Victoria Juengling, was...
Elizabeth Green Kalb
Released
Elizabeth Green Kalb (1896-1973) was born in Columbus, Ohio, and was living in Houston, Texas at the time of h...
Rhoda Kellogg
Released
Rhoda Kellogg (January 23, 1898 - August 21, 1987), later Rhoda Kellogg Rypins, was a member of the National W...
Beatrice Kinkead
Released
Minnie Beatrice Reynolds Kinkead (November 8, 1874 - November 11, 1947), recorded in contemporary sources as M...
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