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Vermont
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 Vermont.
13Documented
0In custody
13Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Vermont
Where Vermont’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 3
2020s 2
1980s 2
1910s 2
2000s 1
1970s 1
Documented cases
13 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Murray Bookchin
Released
Leading American eco-anarchist theorist and founder of the Institute for Social Ecology at Goddard College in...
Matthew Lyon
Released
Matthew Lyon, a Congressman from Vermont, was convicted under the Sedition Act for publishing and circulating...
Mohsen Mahdawi
Awaiting Trial
Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian student and activist who was a graduate student at Columbia University and had...
Cyrus Pringle
Released
Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, a Quaker from Charlotte, Vermont — later one of the great American botanists — was one...
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Bob Atchison
Released
Vermont-based climate activist and member of Declare Emergency, a group that used disruptive highway blockades...
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Robert Chantal
Released
Robert Chantal — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installa...
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Peter Dakin
Released
Peter Dakin, a Quaker from Ferrisburgh, Vermont, was one of three Vermont Quakers drafted into the Union Army...
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Martin Holladay
Released
Martin Holladay was a carpenter from Sheffield, Vermont, and the son of three-time Plowshares activist Jean Ho...
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Harold G. Mackley
Released
Harold G. Mackley, from Holland, Vermont, was convicted for "disloyalty to ourcountry " and sentenced to fifte...
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Lindley Macomber
Released
Lindley M. Macomber, a Vermont Quaker, was drafted in 1863 together with Cyrus Pringle and Peter Dakin and, li...
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Leo Schiff
Released
Leo Schiff was a draft-registration resister and natural-foods chef from Vermont. No further detailed biograph...
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Clarence W. Waldron
Released
Clarence W. Waldron, a Pentecostal preacher from Windsor, Vermont, was convicted in part for distributing a pa...
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Paul Yaskar
Released
Paul Yaskar was one of five Vermont Marble Company strikers imprisoned for one to two years in the state penit...
Institutions in Vermont
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Vermont that appear in the census’s case files.
Vergennes JailVergennes, Vermont
1 case
Bennington JailBennington, Vermont
1 case