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Maryland
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 Maryland.
121Documented
0In custody
113Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Maryland
Where Maryland’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 43
1960s 16
1970s 14
1980s 11
1910s 9
2000s 7
Documented cases
121 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Sherrie Brown
Sherrie Brown was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the def...
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Allen Bullock
Released
Black teenage Baltimore protester whose photograph smashing a Baltimore Police Department patrol car windshiel...
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George Butler
Released
George Butler was linked, in a recovered account from the Fort Delaware State Park series, with Wesley Shields...
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Mark Caesar
Released
Mark Caesar, a free Black man of Charles County, Maryland, was tried in 1845 as an "accomplice of slave flight...
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John Clark
John Clark was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the defend...
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Lewis William Cohen
Released
Lewis William Cohen was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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James Cunningham
Released
James Cunningham, 40 at the time of Trident Nein, was a former lawyer who had given up a high-living legal pra...
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David Darst
Released
David Darst, born James Darst, was a Christian Brother and member of the Catonsville Nine. He joined the May 1...
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John W. Davis
Released
John W. Davis was a Baltimore police commissioner. On July 1, 1861, after federal authorities seized control o...
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Robert Douglas
Released
The Reverend Robert Douglas was a Baltimore-area clergyman detained during the federal crackdown on Confederat...
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Robert E. Fox
Released
Robert E. Fox was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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William H. Gatchell
Released
William H. Gatchell was a Baltimore police commissioner. On July 1, 1861, after federal authorities seized con...
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Isaac Gibson
Released
Isaac Gibson, a free African American of Caroline County, Maryland, helped an enslaved man named John Stokes a...
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William H. Gibson
Released
William H. Gibson, of Maryland, was held without trial and released on the oath of amnesty. He was held as a c...
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Frank T. Grady
Released
Frank T. Grady, of Maryland, was held without trial; he firmly refused the oath and was released on parole to...
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William G. Harrison
Released
William G. Harrison was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates arrested in the September 1861 federal swe...
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Hugh Hazlett
Released
Hugh Hazlett was an Irish immigrant wood sawyer and Underground Railroad conductor in Maryland. On the night o...
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Charles D. Hinks
Released
Charles D. Hinks was a Baltimore police commissioner. On July 1, 1861, after federal authorities seized contro...
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Charles Hopkins
Released
Charles Hopkins — who adopted the name Mansa Musa after reading Malcolm X's writings on African history, rejec...
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Charles Howard
Released
Charles Howard was president of the Baltimore Board of Police Commissioners. On July 1, 1861, after federal au...
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Jack Ivory Johnson
Released
Jack Ivory Johnson was a member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. On April 24, 1970 Baltimo...
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Stephen J. Joice
Released
Stephen J. Joice, of Baltimore, Maryland, was the former editor of the Baltimore Republican, held under a sent...
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Malik Jones
Malik Jones was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the defen...
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Orphan Jones
Orphan Jones — also known as Euel Lee — was an elderly Black farm hand jailed at Snow Hill, Maryland in 1931 a...
Institutions in Maryland
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Maryland that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort McHenryBaltimore, Maryland
10 cases
Kent County Detention CenterChestertown, Maryland
6 cases
Calvert County Detention CenterPrince Frederick, Maryland
5 cases
Maryland PenitentiaryBaltimore, Maryland
4 cases
Charles County Detention CenterLa Plata, Maryland
3 cases
FCI CumberlandCumberland, Maryland
2 cases
Washington, DC RRMAnnapolis Junct, Maryland
1 case
Baltimore City JailBaltimore, Maryland
1 case