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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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Samuel Lippman
Released
Samuel Lippman, an anarchist from New York, New York, was sentenced along with Jacob Abrams and Mollie Steimer...
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Sidney Wallace Mader
Released
Sidney Wallace Mader, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in Berlin, New Hampshire, on September 1, 1917, under t...
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Ernesto Mangaoang
Released
Ernesto Mangaoang was a business agent and leader of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle-based Filipino cannery workers...
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Joseph Manning
Released
Joseph Manning was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
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Laurence Manning
Released
Laurence Manning was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail a...
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Ed Mead
Released
Ed Mead was the principal theorist of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based militant prison-solidarity f...
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Tyre Means
Released
Tyre Means was a Seattle defendant in the May 30, 2020 downtown Seattle protests following the police murder o...
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Chris Mensalvas
Released
Chris Mensalvas (also spelled Mensalvos) was a Filipino American labor leader and poet who in 1949 was elected...
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Ed Miller
Released
Ed Miller was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and char...
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Sid Mills
Released
Sid Mills, Yakama and Cherokee, was a wounded Vietnam veteran who in October 1968 publicly refused further U.S...
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Vallentine Mink
Released
Vallentine Mink began serving a prison sentence in McNeil Island Penitentiary on September 18, 1918.
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Ivor Moe
Released
Ivor Moe was a Communist candidate for state senator, sentenced to one to two years and a $200 fine in the Ana...
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Christopher Monfort
Released
Christopher Monfort shot and killed Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton on October 31, 2009, in attacks he...
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T. A. Montgomery
Released
T. A. Montgomery, from Tacoma, Washington, began serving a prison sentence on June 4, 1918, in the Pierre Coun...
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Justin Christopher Moore
Released
On September 7, 2020 during a racial justice protest in Seattle, WA sparked by George Floyd's murder, Justin C...
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Louis Morgan
Released
Louis Morgan was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and c...
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Tom Nash
Released
Tom Nash received a ten-year prison sentence in Walla Walla Prison for violating the state's criminal syndical...
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Carl Newman
Released
Carl Newman was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and ch...
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Phan Nguyen
Released
Vietnamese-American Port Militarization Resistance organizer in Olympia, Washington. Arrested at the November...
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John Nugent
Released
John Nugent was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and ch...
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Jack O'Connell
Released
Jack O'Connell was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from September 18...
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Katherine Olejnik
Released
Katherine "KteeO" Olejnik was one of the Pacific Northwest anarchists jailed in 2012 for civil contempt for re...
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Earl Osborne
Released
Earl Osborne was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and c...
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Julianne Panagacos
Released
Named plaintiff in Panagacos v. Towery (W.D. Wash. No. 3:10-cv-05018-RBL), the federal civil-rights lawsuit fi...

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