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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.
280Documented
1In custody
270Released
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 19
2010s 11
Documented cases
280 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Ray Trafton
Released
Ray Trafton was a carpenter and Communist candidate for county commissioner, sentenced to nine to twenty-one m...
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Kimberly Jeannine Trimiew
Released
Kimberly Jeannine Trimiew volunteered with the Coalition Against Fur Farms. Her refusal to answer federal gran...
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Paul L. Trout
Released
Paul L. Trout was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Edwart Truitt
Released
Edwart Truitt was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
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Angelus Nick Vlachos
Released
Angelus Nick Vlachos was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Kim Wahl
Released
Kim Wahl was a peace activist jailed following a protest at Boeing against the murders of Jesuits in El Salvad...
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Lowell Wakefield
Released
Lowell Wakefield, the editor of the Seattle labor weekly Voice of Action, was charged with criminal libel in 1...
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Yvonne Wanrow
Released
Colville Indian mother convicted of second-degree murder in 1974 for shooting William Wesler, a white man who...
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Morris White
Seattle Black Panther Party member arrested and charged with false solicitation, disorderly conduct and resist...
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James Whiteford
Released
James Whiteford was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail an...
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Hazel Wolf
Released
Hazel Wolf was a Canadian-born Seattle woman — later a celebrated environmental organizer — subjected to repea...
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William Wollertz
Released
William Wollertz was a mill worker sentenced to six to eighteen months and a $100 fine in the Anacortes food-r...
J
Joshua Wollstein
Released
Joshua Wollstein, then 28 and from Tacoma, Washington, was charged with riot — a Class C felony under Washingt...
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Paul Wright
Released
Former US Army soldier imprisoned in Washington State (#930783) who became a prominent jailhouse journalist an...
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Peter James Yeager
Released
Peter James Yeager, 45, USMC veteran, drove from Grand Coulee WA to Spokane on December 9, 2020 with a preconc...
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Nicholas S. Zogg
Released
Nicholas S. Zogg, a civil engineer and an anarchist, was convicted in Los Angeles of violating the Espionage A...
Institutions in Washington
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Washington that appear in the census’s case files.
Snohomish County JailEverett, Washington
75 cases
McNeil Island Federal PenitentiarySteilacoom, Washington
63 cases
USP McNeil IslandSteilacoom, Washington
46 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