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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.
137Documented
2In custody
120Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in North Carolina
Where North Carolina’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1970s 37
1930s 28
2010s 13
2020s 12
1920s 9
1960s 8
Documented cases
137 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Gail Phares
Released
Gail S. Phares is a former Maryknoll lay missioner who served in Nicaragua and Guatemala in the 1960s and is a...
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Jedidiah Poole
Released
Jedidiah Poole — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installa...
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Harold Reap
Released
Harold Reap was one of the defendants jailed on high bail in Monroe, North Carolina on the kidnapping charge g...
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Ann Shepard
Released
Ann Shepard was one of the Wilmington Ten, convicted on October 17, 1972 of firebombing Mike's Grocery and con...
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Duncan Andrew Small
Released
Duncan Andrew Small, 30, Asheville co-defendant of Chioke Fugate; lit and threw explosive devices at the forme...
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Nancy H. Smith
Released
Nancy H. Smith — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installa...
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J. H. Stephenson
Released
J. H. Stephenson was a United Textile Workers striker at the Eton Mill in Shelby, North Carolina, charged with...
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Randall Duncan Stezer
Released
Randall Duncan Stezer, age 17, of Graham NC, was one of the Asheville 11 indicted for the May 1, 2010 May Day...
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Ann Shepard Turner
The only white member of the Wilmington Ten, convicted in the trumped-up 1971 Wilmington, NC firebombing/consp...
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Irvin Vasquez
Released
Charged as a member ("King Dice") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. Indicte...
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Samuel Velasquez
Released
Charged as a member ("King Hype") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. Indicte...
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Joseph Waddell
Black Panther Party member known as 'Joe-Dell,' who The Black Panther Vol. 18 no.29 (1978) says was serving a...
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William Wellman
Released
William Wellman was a Black laborer sentenced to hang in North Carolina in 1942 on the familiar 'rape' charge,...
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Wesley Williams
Released
Member ("King Bam") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. Indicted December 201...
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Marvin Wilson
Released
Marvin Wilson was jailed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after city police, led by Officer R.A. Spillman, for...
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William Joe Wright
Released
William Joe Wright was one of the Wilmington Ten, convicted on October 17, 1972 of firebombing Mike's Grocery...
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Jason Yates
Released
Member ("King Squirrel") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. Indicted Decembe...
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
Federal Medical Center, ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases
North Carolina State Prison System
2 cases
FMC ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base — Pax Christi-Spirit of Life Plowshares
2 cases