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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 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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A. Robert Kaufman
Released
A. Robert Kaufman was a 28-year-old Baltimore socialist convicted of disorderly conduct and fined $50 for sell...
J
Jen Kipka
Released
Jen Kipka was arrested in a Citizen Weapons Inspection at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...
A
Andrew Lawrence
Released
Andrew Lawrence was a 28-year-old former Peace Corps volunteer and peace activist living at Jonah House in Bal...
M
Mortimer C. Lovett
Released
Mortimer C. Lovett, of Maryland, was held roughly twenty months, north and south, before being released on the...
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Hazwell Magruder
Released
Hazwell Magruder, of Prince George's County, Maryland, was sentenced to a year for harboring and assisting Con...
H
Henry May
Released
Henry May was a United States Congressman from Maryland representing a Baltimore district, elected as a Unioni...
S
Steve McCutchin
Steve McCutchin was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the d...
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Neil McLaughlin
Released
Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Catholic Left anti-war activist. Indicted as a member of t...
T
Tom Melville
Released
A former Maryknoll priest whose activism was shaped by experiences in Guatemala, Melville became part of the C...
S
Samuel Loring Morison
Released
Civilian Navy intelligence analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Maryland (1974-1984),...
M
Maximilian J. "Max" Obuszewski
Released
Maximilian J. "Max" Obuszewski (born around 1944-1945) is a Baltimore-based peace activist arrested roughly se...
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Haniffa Bin Osman
Released
Haniffa Bin Osman was a Singaporean arms broker who acted as a middleman between weapons suppliers and the Lib...
S
Samuel H. Pairo
Released
Samuel H. Pairo, of Baltimore, Maryland, was a young Baltimorean sentenced by Gen. Lew Wallace for blockade ru...
M
Michael Patschak
Released
Michael Patschak is a Maryland activist who participated in the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. On Decemb...
J
John Pendleton
Released
John Pendleton was a member of the Jonah House nonviolent resistance community in Baltimore and a two-time Plo...
J
Jim Perkins
Released
Jim Perkins was a teacher and father living in the Jonah House resistance community in Baltimore at the time o...
C
Charles H. Pitts
Released
Charles H. Pitts was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates arrested in the September 1861 federal sweep...
S
Solomon Porter
Released
Solomon Porter, of Maryland, was held as a political prisoner and released on the oath of amnesty. He was held...
J
James Powell
James Powell was named as a jailed Baltimore Panther defendant in 1970.
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Robert W. Rasin
Released
Robert W. Rasin, of Baltimore, Maryland, was held as a 'prisoner of State' with, by his account, no charge or...
F
Francis A. Richardson
Released
Francis A. Richardson, of Baltimore, Maryland, was the former editor of the Baltimore Republican, held under a...
R
Reinhard Rusli
Released
Reinhard Rusli, 35, Tamil Tigers ICE-sting defendant. 12 months federal prison + 24 months supervised release.
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Lawrence Sangston
Released
Lawrence Sangston was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates arrested in the September 1861 federal seizu...
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Suzanne Schmidt
Released
Suzanne Schmidt was a mother, grandmother, and worker with people with disabilities who lived in the Jonah Hou...

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