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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
Other
White House excludes Politico from Air Force One press pool
Protest
Pro-Data Center Party Interrupted by Protesters in DC
Other
White House excludes CNN from Air Force One press pool for presidential trips
Protest
Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down
Other
CNN, MS NOW and Politico barred from White House access; outlets challenge the ban
Arrest
He brought a guillotine to D.C. He didn’t expect to get arrested.
Prosecution
Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information 'leakers' being 'hunted down'
Documented cases
370 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Mary Jane Keeney
Released
Mary Jane Keeney was a librarian and former United Nations employee prosecuted after she declined to answer a...
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Kennedy (Washington anti-war demonstrator)
One of the four remaining defendants prosecuted following the March 26, 1932 anti-war demonstration at the Jap...
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Marie Ernst Kennedy
Released
Marie Ernst Kennedy was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned du...
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Joseph Kers
Joseph Kers was one of the individually named signatories of a protest from Washington’s First Precinct statio...
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Margaret Wood Kessler
Released
Margaret Wood Kessler was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned...
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Alice Kimball
Released
Alice Kimball was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
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Ruby E. Koenig
Released
Ruby E. Koenig was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during...
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Jake Kreilick
Jake Kreilick was a Native Forest Network activist who protested Australian woodchipping at the Australian Emb...
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Jan Kuenning
Jan Kuenning was jailed after a Good Friday 1984 peace action at the Pentagon. On July 12 she was sentenced to...
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Anna Kuhn
Released
Anna Kuhn was a Maryland physician who took part in the 1917-1919 National Woman’s Party campaign to picket th...
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Marta C. Kusic
Released
Marta C. Kusic joined the first recorded sit-in inside the White House on March 11, 1965, demanding federal pr...
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Saul Langdon
Saul Langdon was one of the individually named signatories of a protest from Washington’s First Precinct stati...
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Jessie Lawrence (Washington, 1935)
Jessie Lawrence was a Black youth beaten by four Washington, D.C. policemen and imprisoned in the Occoquan Jai...
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Linda Letendre
Linda Letendre was held overnight after the March 12, 2008 antiwar Senate-gallery protest, then released after...
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Katherine Lincoln
Released
Katherine Lincoln was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned duri...
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Elliot Linzer
Judy Willis’s account individually names this Pentagon antiwar demonstrator among men actually in D.C. Jail’s...
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Dr. Sarah H. Lockrey
Released
Dr. Sarah H. Lockrey was a Philadelphia surgeon and a member of the National Woman's Party who took part in th...
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Roger Ludwig
Released
Roger Ludwig was a poet and musician engaged in work with the poor in Washington, DC. He was a two-time Plowsh...
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Annie J. Magee
Released
Annie J. Magee was recorded among the members of the National Woman's Party jailed during the 1917-1919 campai...
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Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi
Released
Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, 26, climbed the Christopher Columbus statue in DCs Columbus Circle on July 24, 2024 and...
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Effie B. Main
Released
Effie B. Main was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...
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Albert Mallin
Released
Albert Mallin was arrested on February 17, 1930 while distributing unemployment leaflets outside the United St...
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Michael Mattin
Judy Willis’s account individually names this Pentagon antiwar demonstrator among men actually in D.C. Jail’s...
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Patrick McCann
Veterans For Peace board member Patrick McCann described a night in police lockup following the September 15,...
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