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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.

413Documented
1In custody
332Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Washington

Where Washington’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1910s 158 1970s 38 2000s 28 1960s 28 2020s 27 1980s 25

Recent dashboard entries from Washington

The newest published events and reporting located in Washington, updated automatically from the live dashboard.

Other

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home

Washington, D.C. · Associated Press
Other

White House excludes Politico from Air Force One press pool

Washington, D.C. · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Pro-Data Center Party Interrupted by Protesters in DC

PubKey, Washington, DC · Newsweek
Other

White House excludes CNN from Air Force One press pool for presidential trips

Washington, DC · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC · PBS NewsHour
Other

CNN, MS NOW and Politico barred from White House access; outlets challenge the ban

White House, Washington, DC · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Protesters hit Hagerstown to protest major data center proposed for city

Washington County Commissioners, Hagerstown, MD · LocalNews1
Arrest

He brought a guillotine to D.C. He didn’t expect to get arrested.

U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court, Washington, DC · The Washington Post
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Documented cases

413 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Carl Swanson
Carl Swanson was an Industrial Workers of the World prisoner who died by suicide in Spokane County Jail on Sep...
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Carl Swelgin
Carl Swelgin was a German-born IWW organizer whose United States naturalization was annulled after government...
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Al M. Talaga
Released
Al M. Talaga, 32, of Auburn, WA was arrested and charged federally as a felon in possession of a firearm. On J...
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Ramon Tancioco
Released
Ramon Tancioco chaired the Portland defense committee for members of the Filipino cannery workers’ union, late...
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St. William Thomas
Released
St. William Thomas was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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James P. Thompson
Released
James P. Thompson was one of the founders of the IWW, from Seattle, Washington. James P. Thompson was convicte...
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Glenn Timpke
Released
Glenn Timpke appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Kyle Robert Tornow
Released
Kyle Robert Tornow, of Seattle, was arrested September 2, 2020 for using the Portland Police TrackIT system on...
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Ray Trafton
Released
Ray Trafton was a carpenter and Communist candidate for county commissioner in Skagit County, Washington. He w...
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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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Carlo Voli
Carlo Voli was arrested during a 2012 antinuclear blockade outside Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington.
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Forrest W. Udy
Forrest W. Udy, a Marine Workers Industrial Union activist, was arrested in Seattle and convicted before Judge...
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Bennie Washington
Bennie Washington was a prisoner at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. In a first-person report pub...
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Vic White
Vic White was cited and released at the August 5, 2024 nuclear-disarmament blockade at Naval Base Kitsap-Bango...
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Nancy Michelle Whitnack
Nancy Michelle Whitnack was a Seattle grand-jury resister who signed her account Michelle Whitnack. Seattle g...
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Russel Milton Wills
Released
Russel Milton Wills was a University of Washington philosophy graduate student who destroyed his draft card in...
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Daniel Wilson
Daniel Wilson was jailed in Olympia after pleading guilty in a May Day 2008 bank-attack case. A contemporary r...
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Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson was one of the former Hudson’s Bay Company employees whom Washington territorial authorities held...
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Bill Wollertz
Released
William Henry Wollertz, also known as Bill Wollertz, was a lumber worker and organizer of the Anacortes Unempl...
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Joshua Wollstein
Released
Joshua Wollstein was arrested during Seattle's May Day protest on May 1, 2013 and charged with felony riot. A...
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Charles Wren
Charles Wren was one of the former Hudson’s Bay Company employees whom Washington territorial authorities held...

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
67 cases
USP McNeil IslandSteilacoom, Washington
43 cases
Washington State PenitentiaryWalla Walla, Washington
13 cases
SeaTac Federal Detention CenterSeaTac, Washington
10 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla / U.S. District Court, W.D. WashingtonWalla Walla, Washington
8 cases
US Forest Service, Sullivan LakeMetaline Falls, Washington
7 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla WallaWalla Walla, Washington
5 cases
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