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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.
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Elizabeth Hamilton
Released
Elizabeth Hamilton was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
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Mrs. George Hill
Released
Mrs. George Hill was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned durin...
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Ralph Holmes
Released
Ralph Holmes was one of a group of Black youths indicted for the first-degree murder of Park Policeman Milo Ke...
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Mrs. L. H. Hornsby
Released
Mrs. L. H. Hornsby was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
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Elizabeth Minnie Huff
Released
Elizabeth Minnie Huff (January 28, 1891 - 1989), later Elizabeth Minnie Huff Johnson and sometimes recorded as...
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Eunice Huff
Released
Eunice Sarah Huff (January 21, 1893 - August 1985), also called Enna Huff and later Eunice S. Huff Noack, was...
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Heather Idoni
Released
Heather Idoni, a Christian mother from Linden, Michigan, was one of the "DC Nine" convicted in the October 22,...
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Bertha M. Jackson
Released
Bertha M. Jackson, recorded more fully as Bertha Maude Rehbein Mather Jackson, was born about 1876 and was a m...
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Bob Jackson
Released
Bob Jackson was one of a group of Black youths indicted for the first-degree murder of Park Policeman Milo Ken...
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Joseph Jackson
Released
Joseph Jackson was one of a group of Black youths indicted for the first-degree murder of Park Policeman Milo...
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Peggy Baird Johns
Released
Peggy Baird Johns was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
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Willie Grace Johnson
Released
Willie Grace Johnson was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned d...
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Karl Jones
Released
Karl Jones, an organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, was one of the leaders arrested in the December...
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Reza Sarhangpour Kambiz
Released
Reza Sarhangpour has been publicly linked to U.S. criminal allegations involving violations of sanctions and e...
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Todd Kaplan
Released
Todd Kaplan was engaged in work with the poor in Washington, DC at the time of Pershing Plowshares. No further...
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Mary Jane Keeney
Released
Mary Jane Keeney was a United Nations employee prosecuted for contempt of Congress after the McCarran Committe...
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Ada Louise Davenport Kendall
Released
Ada Louise Davenport Kendall (March 31, 1867 - April 14, 1950) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and...
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Marie Ernst Kennedy
Released
Marie Ernst Kennedy was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned du...
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Margaret Wood Kessler
Released
Margaret Wood Kessler was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned...
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Alice Kimball
Released
Alice Mary Kimball (December 24, 1886 - May 13, 1982) was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of th...
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Ruby E. Koenig
Released
Ruby E. Koenig (born about 1886 - June 22, 1968) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Si...
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Anna Kuhn
Released
Dr. Anna Louise Kuhn (April 13, 1859 - October 6, 1934) was a Maryland physician who took part in the 1917-191...
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Art Laffin
Released
Dorothy Day/New Haven Catholic Worker and chronicler of the movement. He took part in the 1982 Trident Nein ac...
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Katherine Lincoln
Released
Katherine Lincoln 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