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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 District of Columbia.

370Documented
8In custody
294Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in District of Columbia

Where District of Columbia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1910s 158 1980s 41 1960s 33 1930s 30 2020s 23 1970s 20

Recent dashboard entries from District of Columbia

The newest published events and reporting located in District of Columbia, 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
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
Prosecution

Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information 'leakers' being 'hunted down'

The White House, Washington, D.C. · BBC News
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Documented cases

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

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Lillian Gregory
Lillian Gregory joined her husband Dick Gregory and Massachusetts state senator Bill Owens in an anti-aparthei...
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Mrs. J. Irving Gross
Released
Mrs. J. Irving Gross was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned d...
M
Marie Grossman
The September 27 report names them among antiwar demonstrators imprisoned after police attacked the protest at...
T
Theresa Guisti
Released
Theresa Guisti participated in a December 28, 1981 antiwar action at the Pentagon, pouring blood on the River...
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Anna Gvinter
Released
Anna Gvinter was born about 1891 and was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silent Sentine...
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Elizabeth Hamilton
Released
Elizabeth Hamilton was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...
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Pam Hayes
The article’s sidebar individually names this woman with Sheila Ryan among those arrested in 1965 for the Whit...
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Mrs. George Hill
Released
Mrs. George Hill was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned durin...
J
James F. Hitselberger
Released
James F. Hitselberger is a former Navy contract linguist who worked with the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. Military...
R
Ralph Holmes
Ralph Edward Holmes was convicted with Joseph Jackson and Irvin Murray of first-degree murder in the 1932 Loga...
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Hamp Howell
Judy Willis’s report names this Pentagon antiwar demonstrator among those actually held at D.C. Jail after tra...
E
Elizabeth Minnie Huff
Released
Elizabeth Minnie Huff was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned...
E
Eunice Huff
Released
Eunice Huff was also called Enna Huff and later Eunice S. Huff Noack. Eunice Huff was a member of the National...
B
Bertha M. Jackson
Released
Bertha M. Jackson was born about 1876 and was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silent Se...
B
Bob Jackson
Released
This profile resulted from an erroneous expansion of the 1932 Logan Circle case. The indictment, appellate dec...
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Joseph Jackson
Released
Joseph Jackson was convicted with two other Black men of first-degree murder in the 1932 Logan Circle death of...
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Peggy Baird Johns
Released
Peggy Baird Johns was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
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Oakley Johnson
Oakley Johnson was described as a New York college professor arrested at the Bonus Army’s rank-and-file confer...
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Willie Grace Johnson
Released
Willie Grace Johnson was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned d...
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Karl Jones
Released
Karl Jones was an organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress. Karl Jones was one of the leaders arrested i...
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Tom Joyce
Released
Tom Joyce, identified as a Toronto peace activist, was arrested during a December 30, 1981 antiwar blood-pouri...
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Todd Kaplan
Released
Todd Kaplan was engaged in work with the poor in Washington, DC at the time of Pershing Plowshares. No further...
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Ivan Kastrow
The March 28 Washington dispatch reported an assault-case hearing after arrests during the Saturday antiwar de...
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Sally Kearsley
Sally Kearsley was jailed during the 1981 anti-nuclear actions at the White House. The December 12, 1981 Natio...

Institutions in District of Columbia

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in District of Columbia that appear in the census’s case files.

Old Capitol PrisonWashington, District of Columbia
216 cases
District of Columbia JailWashington, District of Columbia
7 cases
District of Columbia Department of CorrectionsWashington, District of Columbia
6 cases
Washington County JailWashington, District of Columbia
5 cases
Washington, D.C. JailWashington, District of Columbia
5 cases
War Tax ResistanceWashington, District of Columbia
4 cases
D.C. Central Detention FacilityWashington, District of Columbia
2 cases
Carroll PrisonWashington, District of Columbia
2 cases
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