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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.
110Documented
2In custody
98Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Virginia
Where Virginia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 30
2010s 13
2000s 12
1910s 12
1970s 10
2020s 9
Documented cases
110 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Thomas W. Edwards
Released
Thomas W. Edwards, of Leesburg, Virginia, was a Leesburg citizen held as a hostage for civilians captured by M...
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Enten Eller
Released
Son of Church of the Brethren minister Rev. Vernard Eller. An honors physics-and-math major at church-affiliat...
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Charles F. Fadeley
Released
Charles F. Fadeley, of Leesburg, Virginia, was a Leesburg citizen held as a hostage for civilians captured by...
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Henry Kyle Frese
Released
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst convicted under the Espionage Act for leaking classi...
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Albert Wilfred Fullwood
Released
Albert Wilfred Fullwood was a conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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F. L. Galleher
Released
F. L. Galleher, of Loudoun County, Virginia, was a Loudoun County citizen prisoner captured with Gen. Rogers's...
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Archie Gibbs
Released
Archie Gibbs was a twenty-two-year-old seaman and member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union who served for...
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Emily Gillespie
Released
Emily Gillespie participated in the May 2013 blockade of the Alpha Natural Resources headquarters access road...
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William White Graham
Released
William White Graham was the teenage fourth member of the Tuller group's 1972 self-styled revolutionary crime...
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Francis DeSales Grayson
One of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the alleged gang rape of Ru...
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Howard Hairston
Howard Hairston was one of the "Martinsville Seven," seven Black men convicted by all-white juries of the rape...
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James Luther Hairston
One of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the alleged gang rape of Ru...
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Joe Henry Hampton
One of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the alleged gang rape of Ru...
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George W. Harris
Released
George W. Harris, of Loudoun County, Virginia, was a Baptist minister seized as a hostage with the Loudoun Cou...
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Ronald Humphrey
Released
Ronald Louis Humphrey, born around 1936, was a United States Information Agency (USIA) foreign-service officer...
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Frank Hairston Jr.
One of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the alleged gang rape of Ru...
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Timothy Ryan Kennedy
Released
Timothy Ryan Kennedy was convicted of attempted arson in connection with the January 2004 ELF-claimed Molotov-...
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Stephen Kim
Released
Stephen Jin-Woo Kim is a Korean-American nuclear-proliferation expert and former contractor at the U.S. State...
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O. A. Kinsolving
Released
O. A. Kinsolving, of Loudoun County, Virginia, was an Episcopal minister (Gen. Rogers's son-in-law) seized as...
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Reginald Leftwich
Released
Reginald Leftwich was a Black worker held on a murder charge at Lynchburg, Virginia in 1933 in a case the ILD...
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Tim Lietzke
Released
Tim Lietzke was a member of Jeremiah House, a Catholic peace community in Richmond, Virginia, at the time of t...
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Aaron Labe Linas
Released
Aaron Labe Linas, age 19, was convicted of conspiracy to damage and destroy property by means of fire and expl...
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John Mason
Released
John Mason, of Accomac County, Virginia, was confined about six months on a charge of smuggling goods to the S...
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Mohammad Mazhar
Released
Mohammad Mazhar, Pakistani citizen, brother of dhow captain Muhammad Pahlawan; indicted December 4, 2024 in th...
Institutions in Virginia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Virginia that appear in the census’s case files.
Occoquan Workhouse
15 cases
FCI PetersburgHopewell, Virginia
11 cases
Occoquan Workhouse / DC JailLorton, Virginia
11 cases
Virginia State PenitentiaryRichmond, Virginia
8 cases
Charles Town Jail (Jefferson County)Charles Town, Virginia
7 cases
Castle GodwinRichmond, Virginia
3 cases
Federal Reformatory, PetersburgPetersburg, Virginia
3 cases
Norfolk Naval Station (USS Iowa) — Nuclear Navy Plowshares
2 cases