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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.
Junius Underwood
Released
Junius "Boo Red" Underwood was a Black Panther Party member from Richmond, Virginia. Arrested at seventeen, he...
Junior Walk
Released
Junior Walk participated in the May 2013 blockade of the Alpha Natural Resources headquarters access road near...
Odell Waller
Odell Waller was a Black Virginia sharecropper condemned to death after killing his landlord. The February 8,...
Timothy Webster
Released
Timothy Webster was an English-born operative of Pinkerton's detective agency. Timothy Webster was one of the...
Lenore Yarger
Released
Lenore Yarger is identified as a Catholic Worker in the Nuclear Resister report of an Atlantic Life Community...
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Benjamin Drake Daley
Released
Benjamin Drake Daley was arrested on October 2, 2018.
Daley was a California Rise Above Movement member prose...
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Michael Paul Miselis
Released
Michael Paul Miselis was arrested on October 2, 2018.
Miselis was a California Rise Above Movement member arr...
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Thomas Walter Gillen
Released
Thomas Walter Gillen was arrested on October 2, 2018.
Gillen was a California Rise Above Movement member arre...
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Cole Evan White
Released
Cole Evan White was arrested October 2, 2018 in the Charlottesville riot prosecution and pleaded guilty to con...
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George Crawford
George Crawford appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The article...
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Harold Christoffel
Harold Christoffel appears in a prisoner-aid committee list published by Laisvė on December 19, 1953. The arti...
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Amy Moose
Amy Moose, a New York City peace activist, participated with Michele Naar-Obed, Rick Sieber and Erin Sieber in...
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Samuel Pasha Cristopher
Samuel Pasha Cristopher is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dr...
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Rodney A. Cobbs
Rodney A. Cobbs is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Dragon, in...
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Isaac Shomari Archer
Isaac Shomari Archer is individually listed in the July 1975 Black Community News Letter, Awakening of a Drago...
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Booker
Booker was an enslaved man jailed in Sussex County, Virginia, during prosecutions following Nat Turner’s 1831...
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Gabriel
Gabriel was an enslaved blacksmith prosecuted in Virginia for conspiracy and insurrection in 1800. He entered...
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Ned
Ned was an enslaved man held in the Sussex County jail during prosecutions following Nat Turner’s 1831 uprisin...
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Nicholas
Nicholas was an enslaved man jailed in Sussex County, Virginia, during prosecutions following Nat Turner’s 183...
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Solomon
Solomon was an enslaved man jailed and condemned in Sussex County, Virginia, during prosecutions following Nat...
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Ahmadzai Abdul Ghafoor
Released
Ahmadzai Abdul Ghafoor served on the security detail of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president before entering th...
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Fred Allen
Released
Fred Allen was the Communist Party section organizer in Norfolk. The November 10, 1932 Daily Worker reports th...
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John A. Atwood
Released
John A. Atwood was from Loudoun County, Virginia. John A. Atwood was held about eight months, never brought to...
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Roby Lee Barnes
Released
Roby Lee Barnes was a Quaker conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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