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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.
Larry Medley
Released
Larry Medley was one of the High Point Four, jailed after the February 10, 1971 confrontation at the Panther i...
Sophie Melvin
Released
Sophie Melvin was a nineteen-year-old youth organizer and one of the three women charged with murder. Sophie M...
Clarence Miller
Released
Clarence Miller was a National Textile Workers Union organizer convicted on October 21, 1929, of conspiracy in...
Wayne Moore
Released
Wayne Moore was among the Black students drawn into Wilmington’s 1971 school boycott and protests for educatio...
Heather Morrow
Released
Heather Morrow was arrested on the morning of November 16, 2025 while protesting immigration enforcement outsi...
Howard Overman
Released
Howard Overman was a Burlington, North Carolina textile worker prosecuted over mill-dynamiting incidents durin...
Charles Parker
Released
Charles Parker was a young civil rights and antiwar activist in Charlotte during an era when Black political o...
Marvin Patrick
Released
Marvin “Chilly” Patrick was one of the Wilmington-area Black students involved in the protest movement and sch...
Boyd Payton
Released
Boyd Ellsworth Payton was a regional director of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), heading the unio...
Gail Phares
Released
Gail S. Phares is a former Maryknoll lay missioner who served in Nicaragua and Guatemala in the 1960s and is a...
Charles Pittman
Released
Charles was sentenced to prison for arson in a case arising from the May 2020 protests.
Arson of Fayetteville...
Alexander Charles Pridgen
Released
Alexander Charles Pridgen, of Greenville NC, threw a brick through a ground-floor window of the federal bankru...
Thomas James Reddy
Released
Thomas James Reddy was arrested in 1972.
Black poet, painter, and civil rights activist and one of the 'Charl...
George Saul
Released
George J. Saul organized Southern textile workers for the National Textile Workers Union and worked for the In...
Cliff Saylors
Released
Cliff Saylors was a textile worker and Southern organizer for the International Labor Defense during the Gasto...
Junius Scales
Released
Junius Scales was born in Greensboro, NC; his great-uncle was NC Governor Alfred Moore Scales. Chair Carolinas...
Amy Schechter
Released
Amy Schechter was a Workers International Relief organizer and one of the three women charged with murder. Amy...
David Simpson
Released
David 'Fuzzy' Simpson was a seven-year-old boy arrested with nine-year-old Hanover Thompson in the 1958 'Kissi...
Duncan Andrew Small
Released
Duncan Andrew Small, Asheville co-defendant of Chioke Fugate; lit and threw explosive devices at the former Va...
Dustin Stevens
Released
Dustin Stevens entered the U.S. Army in 2002 and refused to complete 82nd Airborne Division training after con...
Shante Sutton
Released
Shante was sentenced to prison for setting fires during the May 2020 unrest.
Set fires inside Greenville NC b...
Hanover Thompson
Released
Hanover Thompson was arrested on October 28, 1958.
James Hanover Thompson was a nine-year-old boy at the cent...
Joseph Thompson
Joseph Thompson, a Jamaican green-card holder, father and chef raised in New Jersey and New York, spent two ye...
Connie Tindall
Released
Connie Tindall was among the Black student activists in Wilmington who participated in the 1971 school boycott...
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