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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.
Jeffrey Scott Hobgood
Released
Jeffrey Scott Hobgood, of Troy NC, sent an email October 11, 2023 to a Jewish organization stating that he was...
J. P. Hoggard
Released
J. P. Hoggard was a North Carolina textile worker and one of the Burlington defendants prosecuted after the Se...
Joyce Hollyday
Released
Joyce was a Yale Divinity-trained associate editor of Sojourners magazine for 15 years and co-founder of Witne...
Mack Ingram
Released
Mack Ingram was a Black North Carolina farmer convicted of assault for allegedly leering at a white girl from...
John Henry Isaac III
Released
John Henry Isaac III was a Marine reservist from Harlem who refused participation in the Gulf War on grounds o...
Jerry Jacobs
Released
Jerry Jacobs was among the Black students involved in Wilmington’s 1971 school boycott and related activism, p...
Timothy Jacobs
Released
Timothy Jacobs is a Tuscarora activist most closely associated with the 1988 Robeson County newspaper takeover...
Charles Robert Jenkins
In Exile
Charles Robert Jenkins was a U.S. Army sergeant from North Carolina who left a patrol and crossed into North K...
Randolph Jennings
Released
Randolph Jennings was a Black Panther Party member and one of the High Point Four arrested after police entere...
Nelson Johnson
Released
Nelson Johnson was arrested on November 3, 1979.
The Reverend Nelson Johnson was a veteran Black freedom orga...
Alexander H. Jones
Released
Alexander H. Jones was a western North Carolina newspaperman and outspoken Unionist. Alexander H. Jones founde...
J. Robert Jones
Released
J. Robert “Bob” Jones, the Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the United Klans of America — which und...
Joel Klimkewicz
Released
Joel Klimkewicz was arrested on November 30, 2004.
Private Joel Klimkewicz was a U.S. Marine who refused to t...
R. M. Lell
R. M. Lell was one of eight union and labor-defense organizers jailed after a North Charlotte raid in Septembe...
Bradford Mizell Lilley
Released
Bradford Mizell Lilley was one of the High Point Four, jailed after the February 10, 1971 confrontation at the...
Joan Little
Released
Joan Little (also written Joanne Little) was a young Black woman who became a landmark figure in the women's,...
Larry Little
Released
Larry Little was the coordinator of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, the Black Panther Party chapter...
Howie Machtinger
Released
Howard Norton Machtinger was born in the Bronx, graduated cum laude from Columbia in 1966 in sociology, and se...
James Marsicano
Released
James "Jamie" Marsicano is a law student at UNC Chapel Hill from Charlotte, North Carolina with multiple prior...
Dewey Martin
Released
Dewey Martin organized Southern textile workers for the National Textile Workers Union. In September 1929, he...
W. M. McGinnis
Released
W. M. McGinnis was a Loray Mill striker and one of seven defendants convicted on October 21, 1929 of conspirac...
James McKoy
Released
James McKoy was one of the Wilmington 10, convicted in 1972 on conspiracy and arson charges arising from the F...
Louis McLaughlin
Released
Louis McLaughlin was one of seven National Textile Workers Union defendants convicted on October 21, 1929 of c...
Jean McNair
Released
Jean McNair was a teacher and black revolutionary who along with her husband and three others hijacked Delta A...
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