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Washington
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 Washington.
277Documented
1In custody
267Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Washington
Where Washington’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 141
2000s 22
1950s 21
2020s 19
1970s 18
2010s 11
Documented cases
277 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Maddy Pfeiffer
Released
Maddy Pfeiffer was the longest-held of the PNW Grand Jury Resisters: subpoenaed by a successor federal grand j...
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Lacey Phillabaum
Released
Member of the Earth Liberation Front "The Family" cell — the Pacific Northwest ELF/ALF affiliation responsible...
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Herbert J. Phillips
Released
Herbert J. Phillips was a former University of Washington philosophy professor, fired in 1948, who was jailed...
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Herbert Phillips
Released
Herbert J. Phillips was a former University of Washington philosophy professor — one of the first scholars fir...
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Edgecomb Pincho
Released
Edgecomb Pincho was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from Augus...
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Roman Pisito
Released
Roman Pisito was a Spokane-based Filipino member of the Alaska Cannery Workers and ILWU Local 37 who faced den...
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Leah-Lynn Plante
Released
Leah-Lynn Plante was subpoenaed before the same federal grand jury that jailed Duran and Olejnik; she briefly...
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Michael D. Poulin
Released
Michael D. Poulin was convicted in 2003 of damaging electricity transmission towers in Washington state in a s...
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Joe Prudencio
Released
Joe Prudencio was a member of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle Filipino cannery workers' union, facing deportation u...
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William Randall
Released
William Randall, secretary of the IWW local in Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced to three years in prison. He...
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John Rawlings
Released
John Rawlings was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
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Jose Raymundo
Released
Jose Raymundo was a member of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle Filipino cannery workers' union, facing deportation u...
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Thomas F. Reed
Released
Thomas F. Reed was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Michael J. Reilly
Released
Michael J. Reilly was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail...
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W. M. Reivo
Released
W. M. Reivo was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from May 6, 19...
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Paul Douglas Revak
Released
Paul Douglas Revak, age 20, an anarchist, was arrested after attempting to purchase explosives from an underco...
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Andrea Robbins
Released
Named plaintiff in Panagacos v. Towery (W.D. Wash. No. 3:10-cv-05018-RBL), the federal civil-rights lawsuit fi...
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Fred H. Robinson
Released
Fred H. Robinson was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Alicia Rosenbaum
Released
Alicia Rosenbaum, a twenty-one-year-old stenographer, was arrested with W. E. Spear and Ed Burns in the April...
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Ed Roth
Released
Ed Roth was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and charge...
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James Rowan
Released
James Rowan, the secretary-treasurer of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, from Spokane, Washingt...
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Thomas Savage
Released
Thomas Savage was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
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Otto Frederick Schmidt
Released
Otto Frederick Schmidt, a twenty-six-year-old member of the IWW arrested in Spokane, Washington, was held for...
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Karol Schulkin
Released
Early Ground Zero member arrested with Shelley Douglass and Mary Grondin walking the warhead rail line into Ba...
Institutions in Washington
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Washington that appear in the census’s case files.
Snohomish County JailEverett, Washington
74 cases
McNeil Island Federal PenitentiarySteilacoom, Washington
63 cases
USP McNeil IslandSteilacoom, Washington
45 cases
Washington State PenitentiaryWalla Walla, Washington
10 cases
SeaTac Federal Detention CenterSeaTac, Washington
8 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla / U.S. District Court, W.D. WashingtonWalla Walla, Washington
7 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla WallaWalla Walla, Washington
5 cases
Washington State ReformatoryMonroe, Washington
5 cases