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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.
Clarence Cyphert
Released
Clarence Cyphert was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail a...
Desmond David-Pitts
Released
On August 24, 2020 Desmond David-Pitts, 19, allegedly set fire to the Seattle Police Department East Precinct....
C. W. Davis
Released
C. W. Davis was secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union in Seattle, Washington. He was conv...
Roy Davis
Released
Roy Davis was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and char...
William Davis
Released
William Davis was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
Joseph Dibee
Released
Joseph Mahmoud Dibee is an environmentalist and an alleged member of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Lib...
Aaron Dixon
Released
Aaron Dixon was a University of Washington Black Student Union leader who, after the March 1968 sit-in at Seat...
J. T. Doran
Released
J. T. Doran, an electrician from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentence...
Axel Downey
Released
Axel Downey was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and ch...
John Downs
Released
John Downs was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and cha...
Adolph Ersson
Released
Adolph Ersson was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
Wesley Everest
Released
Wesley Everest was an IWW Wobbly, lumber worker, and World War I infantry veteran. On Armistice Day, November...
Harry Feinburg
Released
Harry Feinburg was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
Henri Feola
Released
Henri Feola, 22, is an activist from Spokane, Washington who grew up in Happy Valley, Oregon and earned a degr...
C. L. Filigno
Released
C. L. Filigno was arrested among the Spokane IWW leaders in November 1909 in Washington. He was released on Ma...
E. J. Foote
Released
E. J. Foote was arrested among the Spokane IWW leaders in November 1909 in Washington. He was released on Marc...
John M. Foss
Released
John M. Foss, a steam fitter from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenc...
Jay Fox
Released
Jay Fox was an anarchist and labor organizer who edited The Agitator at the Home anarchist colony in Washingto...
Billy Frank Jr.
Released
Billy Frank Jr. was a Nisqually fisherman and treaty-rights organizer first arrested in December 1945 at age 1...
Ted Fraser
Released
Ted Fraser, a meat cutter from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced...
Larry Giddings
Released
Larry W. Giddings is most visible in the public record through long-running incarceration and litigation tied...
Ron Glick
Released
Ronald Glick was arrested in Washington in February 2004 and returned to Montana to face felony sexual assault...
Larry Gossett
Released
Larry Gossett was a Seattle Black Power and civil-rights activist who co-founded the University of Washington'...
Jacob Greenburg
Released
Jacob Greenburg is a Washington state activist who was convicted for his participation in black bloc activitie...
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