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Virginia
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 Virginia.
208Documented
6In custody
164Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Virginia
Where Virginia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 42
2020s 30
1970s 28
1930s 20
2010s 18
2000s 18
Recent dashboard entries from Virginia
The newest published events and reporting located in Virginia, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
NYT: CIA Secretly Established New Cuba Task Force
Other
Fourth Circuit upholds Badar Khan Suri’s release and rejects government bid to re-detain him
Protest
Richmond protesters demand a statewide moratorium on new Virginia data-center approvals
Other
Trump Loyalist Bill Pulte Begins Purge at National Intelligence Office
Other
The Defense Department Is Posting QAnon Memes
Protest
A Charlottesville housing coalition rallies at City Hall over student-housing
Arrest
Virginia Beach woman Jessica Pinsky was charged with disorderly conduct for kicking a "Trump Train" pickup at a "No Kings" rally; the case is pending
Prosecution
Eleview International owner Oleg Nayandin and a senior employee, Vitaliy Borisenko, were sentenced for illegally exporting millions of dollars of U.S. technology to Russia through third countries
Documented cases
208 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Enten Eller
Released
Enten Eller was a son of Church of the Brethren minister Rev. Vernard Eller. An honors physics-and-math major...
Charles James Faulkner
Released
Charles James Faulkner was a former U.S. congressman from Virginia and U.S. minister to France. On returning f...
Henry Kyle Frese
Released
Henry was a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst convicted under the Espionage Act for le...
Archie Gibbs
Released
Archie Gibbs was a twenty-two-year-old seaman and member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union who served for...
Stephan Graham
Released
Stephan Graham was a local secretary of the International Labor Defense. Stephan Graham was arrested at Portsm...
Stephen Graham
Released
Stephen Graham, also known as Stephan Graham and Stephen Grahovac, was a Communist organizer from a Croatian f...
Francis DeSales Grayson
Released
Francis DeSales Grayson was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for...
Leonard Grimes
Released
Leonard Grimes was a free-born African American Underground Railroad activist in Washington, DC. He served two...
Gokhan Gun
Released
Gokhan Gun, a civilian Defense Department engineer with a top-secret clearance, was arrested on August 9, 2024...
Howard Hairston
Released
Howard Hairston was one of the "Martinsville Seven," seven Black men convicted by all-white juries of the rape...
James Luther Hairston
Released
James Luther Hairston was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for t...
Daniel Hale
Released
Daniel Hale is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst and former contractor at the National Geospatial-I...
Joe Henry Hampton
Released
Joe Henry Hampton was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the a...
Eric Hancock
Released
Eric Hancock is an antifascist prisoner serving a year’s sentence for unlawful wounding after a confrontation...
Laurence Henry
Released
Laurence Henry founded the Nonviolent Action Group at Howard University. Arlington police arrested him and Dio...
Naomi Destiny Isaac
Released
Naomi “Nomi” Isaac is a Richmond organizer with the Virginia Student Power Network and Black Alliance for Peac...
Frank Hairston Jr.
Released
Frank Hairston Jr. was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the...
Stephen Kim
Released
Stephen Jin-Woo Kim is a Korean-American nuclear-proliferation expert and former contractor at the U.S. State...
O. A. Kinsolving
Released
O. A. Kinsolving was from Loudoun County, Virginia. O. A. Kinsolving was an Episcopal minister (Gen. Rogers's...
John Kiriakou
Released
John Kiriakou was a CIA case officer, and senior counterterrorism investigator for the Senate Foreign Relation...
John Letcher
Released
John Letcher was a Virginia lawyer, newspaper editor, congressman, and the state’s governor during the first t...
Pryce Lewis
Released
Pryce Lewis was a Welsh-born Pinkerton operative. Pryce Lewis was sent into Richmond in 1862 to check on the a...
Tim Lietzke
Released
Tim Lietzke was a member of Jeremiah House, a Catholic peace community in Richmond, Virginia, at the time of t...
Corey Long
Released
Corey Long was arrested on October 13, 2017.
Used an improvised aerosol flamethrower at the Aug 2017 Unite th...
Institutions in Virginia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Virginia that appear in the census’s case files.
Castle ThunderRichmond, Virginia
22 cases
Castle GodwinRichmond, Virginia
21 cases
Occoquan Workhouse
15 cases
Virginia State PenitentiaryRichmond, Virginia
12 cases
Occoquan Workhouse / DC JailLorton, Virginia
11 cases
Charles Town Jail (Jefferson County)Charles Town, Virginia
7 cases
FCI PetersburgHopewell, Virginia
6 cases
Federal Reformatory, PetersburgPetersburg, Virginia
3 cases