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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.

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.

A
Armin Von Harder
Released
Armin Von Harder was sentenced to three years in prison and served his sentence at McNeil Island Penitentiary...
B
Barbara Hartle
Released
Barbara Hartle was the one woman among the Seattle defendants prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCart...
R
R. R. Hoffman
Released
R. R. Hoffman was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in McNeil Island Penitentiary.
E
E. F. Hollingsworth
Released
E. F. Hollingsworth was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jai...
F
Frank J. Howenstine
Released
Frank J. Howenstine received a sentence of ten years in prison, which was commuted to three. He served in McNe...
H
Henry P. Huff
Released
Henry P. Huff was chairman of the Washington State Communist Party and was prosecuted under the Smith Act duri...
C
Cody Ingram
Released
Cody Ingram was charged in federal court (W.D. Wash.) with destruction of government property after the Occupy...
J
James Johnson
Released
James Johnson was arrested in Seattle on September 29, 1916, as Everett authorities attempted to build an arso...
A
Anton Karachun
Released
Anton Karachun was a Russian-born United States Army soldier sent to Siberia with the 31st Infantry during the...
W
W. H. Kaufman
Released
W. H. Kaufman, a "single taxer " from Olympia, Washington, began serving a five-year prison sentence on August...
I
Idell Kennedy
Released
Idell Kennedy was convicted in the federal wartime speech prosecutions in Washington State and sentenced on Ju...
S
Shyam Prasad Khanna
Released
South Asian-American PMR activist arrested for blocking a Stryker convoy departing the Port of Olympia in Nove...
J
John Kidenowski
Released
John Kidenowski was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from July 20,...
J
Jennifer Kolar
Released
Member of the Earth Liberation Front "The Family" cell — the Pacific Northwest ELF/ALF affiliation responsible...
T
Theodore Lauer
Released
Theodore Lauer was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
W
William Lawson
Released
William Lawson was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
B
Ben Legg
Released
Ben Legg was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and charg...
C
Chief Leschi
Chief Leschi was a Nisqually leader who resisted Governor Isaac Stevens's coercive 1854 Treaty of Medicine Cre...
M
Morris Levine
Released
Morris Levine, a transient from Seattle, Washington, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced...
S
Samuel Lippman
Released
Samuel Lippman, an anarchist from New York, New York, was sentenced along with Jacob Abrams and Mollie Steimer...
S
Sidney Wallace Mader
Released
Sidney Wallace Mader, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in Berlin, New Hampshire, on September 1, 1917, under t...
E
Ernesto Mangaoang
Released
Ernesto Mangaoang was a business agent and leader of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle-based Filipino cannery workers...
J
Joseph Manning
Released
Joseph Manning was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
L
Laurence Manning
Released
Laurence Manning was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail a...

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