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North Carolina
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 North Carolina.
192Documented
2In custody
140Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in North Carolina
Where North Carolina’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 48
1970s 37
1920s 32
2020s 13
1960s 10
1950s 10
Recent dashboard entries from North Carolina
The newest published events and reporting located in North Carolina, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Federal jury convicts William Stanley and Heather Morrow of misdemeanors after a blockade of Charlotte’s ICE office
Other
Treasury denies G20 summit credentials to reporters from major outlets and Asheville newsrooms
Protest
Hundreds rally and march in Pack Square Park for May Day 'Workers Over Billionaires'
Protest
Hundreds stage a die-in against ICE in Wilmington
Prosecution
Heather Morrow's felony assault charge is dropped and refiled as misdemeanors after a Charlotte ICE protest
Protest
Student-led march against ICE and Border Patrol raids in Durham
Protest
Hundreds of NC State students march against ICE from the Memorial Belltower
Arrest
Woman charged with assaulting an officer at a Charlotte ICE-office protest
Documented cases
192 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Richard Rubalcava
In Custody
Richard Rubalcava was a Black Lives Matter protestor who was accused of setting fires during a May 30, 2020 pr...
Joseph Shine White Stewart
In Custody
Joseph Shine White Stewart, North Carolina Department of Public Safety inmate number 0802041, has been incarce...
Robert Allen
Released
Robert Allen was a defendant in the 1929 Gastonia textile-strike prosecution. The December10 Charlotte dispatc...
John L. Anderson
Released
John L. "Slim" Anderson was president of the Piedmont Textile Council in Burlington, North Carolina. Born in V...
Fred Beal
Released
Fred Beal was a National Textile Workers Union organizer convicted on October 21, 1929 of conspiracy in the de...
Rayquan Borum
Rayquan Borum was held in Mecklenburg County Jail in the Charlotte Black Lives Matter prosecution, as document...
Faye Brown
Released
Faye was a 22-year-old Black woman on North Carolina's death row for the alleged killing of a state trooper, c...
Vera Buch
Released
Vera Buch was a National Textile Workers Union organizer and one of the three women charged with murder. Vera...
K. O. Byers
Released
K. O. Byers was a Loray mill striker arrested with Fred Beal at Spartanburg. K. O. Byers was one of the sixtee...
Tom Canipe
Released
Tom Canipe was a North Carolina textile worker prosecuted after the September 1934 general textile strike in B...
George Carter
Released
George Carter was a National Textile Workers Union defendant in the Gastonia case. Police seized him at gunpoi...
James Cato
James Cato was a Black Army veteran and part-time community worker with the Winston-Salem Black Panther Party....
Ben Chavis
Released
Ben Chavis was arrested on February 29, 1972.
Civil-rights organizer (United Church of Christ Commission for...
Ricky Clousing
Released
Ricky Clousing was an Army interrogator who spoke publicly against the Iraq War after returning from deploymen...
Jabari Devon Davis
Released
Jabari Devon Davis was arrested by federal agents on June 4, 2020 after attempting to burn a marked Raleigh Po...
George DeWitt
Released
George DeWitt was one of the High Point Four, jailed after the February 10, 1971 confrontation at the Panther...
Reginald Epps
Released
Reginald Epps was one of the Black student participants in Wilmington’s 1971 boycott and protest movement, whi...
Woodrow Wilson Gillis
Released
Woodrow Wilson Gillis was a Black man who, after being attacked by a white man and woman in Kinston, North Car...
Jim Grant
Released
Jim Grant was a Black civil rights organizer and one of the 'Charlotte Three,' convicted in 1972 in Charlotte,...
Otis L. Hairston Jr.
Released
Otis L. Hairston Jr. was a Greensboro civil-rights activist and later the city’s first Black council member. H...
J. F. Harraway
Released
J. F. Harraway, spelled Haraway in the court record, was one of seven Burlington, North Carolina textile worke...
Joseph Harrison
Released
Joseph Harrison was a National Textile Workers Union organizer convicted on October 21, 1929 of conspiracy in...
Eddie Hatcher
Released
Eddie Hatcher was a Tuscarora activist and member of Concerned Citizens for Better Government in Robeson Count...
Shirley Herlth
Released
Shirley was a Black prisoner at the North Carolina Women's Prison charged with assault after defending a fello...
Institutions in North Carolina
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in North Carolina that appear in the census’s case files.
North Carolina state courtsWilmington, North Carolina
10 cases
Gaston County JailGastonia, North Carolina
9 cases
North Carolina State Penitentiary (Central Prison)Raleigh, North Carolina
7 cases
Buncombe County Superior Court
5 cases
Union County JailMonroe, North Carolina
3 cases
Camp Lejeune brigCamp Lejeune, North Carolina
2 cases
North Carolina State Prison System
2 cases
FMC ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases