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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.
Adam Kokesh
Released
Adam Kokesh is a Marine veteran and antiwar activist who later organized libertarian civil-disobedience action...
Hattie Kruger
Released
Hattie Kruger was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
David Lasser
Released
David Lasser was the national president of the Workers Alliance of America, the organization of the unemployed...
Dora Kelly Lewis
Released
Dora Kelly Lewis Philadelphia widow from a prominent family who became one of Alice Paul's earliest and most s...
Maud Malone
Released
Maud Malone was a New York librarian and longtime suffragist arrested on September 4, 1917 and sentenced to si...
Jean Marshall
Released
Jean Marshall, a Catholic nurse from Kingston, Massachusetts, and the sister of fellow defendant Paulette Harl...
Anne Martin
Released
Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 - April 15, 1951), also recorded as Anna or Annie Martin and occasio...
Timothy Martin
Released
Timothy Martin, an architect from North Carolina with the climate group Declare Emergency, smeared red and bla...
Louise Parker Mayo
Released
Louise Parker Mayo was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
Nell Mercer
Released
Nell Mercer was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...
Vida Milholland
Released
Vida Milholland Younger sister of Inez Milholland; Vassar-trained singer who abandoned her musical career afte...
Bertha Moller
Released
Bertha Berglin Moller Delin (1888-1951) was a Minnesota member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "S...
Agnes H. Morey
Released
Mary Agnes Hosmer Morey (October 25, 1868 - March 28, 1924) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one...
Phoebe C. Munnecke
Released
Phoebe C. Munnecke (1885 - November 13, 1955) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silen...
Kendall Myers
Kendall Myers (born Walter Kendall Myers) was a long-serving U.S. foreign-affairs official accused of using hi...
Mun Chol Myong
Released
Mun Chol Myong is a North Korean businessman who was in the process of importing goods from Singapore to his n...
Jerritt Pace
Released
Jerritt Jeremy Pace is a Washington, DC man sentenced to three years in federal prison for attempting to burn...
Alice Paul
Released
Alice Paul Founder of the National Woman's Party and chief strategist of the militant U.S. suffrage movement....
Berry Pottier
Released
Berry Pottier was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
Mrs. R. B. Quay
Released
Mrs. R. B. Quay was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during...
Tracye Redd
Released
Tracye Redd, age 28, of Washington DC, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Karl Reeve
Released
Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, was one of the leaders arrested in the December 1928 anti-war and "F...
Betsy Graves Reyneau
Released
Betsy Graves Reyneau (June 6, 1888 - October 18, 1964), later Betsy Graves Reyneau Ortmans, was a portrait pai...
Mrs. C. T. Robertson
Released
Mrs. C. T. Robertson was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned d...
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