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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.

237Documented

6In custody

230Released

Eras of repression in District of Columbia

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

1910s 159 2020s 19 1980s 12 2010s 8 1800s 8 1970s 6

Documented cases

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

Elizabeth Green Kalb

Elizabeth Green Kalb (1896-1973) was born in Columbus, Ohio, and was living in Houston, Texas at the time of h...

Rhoda Kellogg (January 23, 1898 - August 21, 1987), later Rhoda Kellogg Rypins, was a member of the National W...

Beatrice Kinkead

Minnie Beatrice Reynolds Kinkead (November 8, 1874 - November 11, 1947), recorded in contemporary sources as M...

Adam Kokesh is a Marine veteran and antiwar activist who later organized libertarian civil-disobedience action...

Hattie Kruger was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...

Dorothy Day/New Haven Catholic Worker and chronicler of the movement. He took part in the 1982 Trident Nein ac...

David Lasser was the national president of the Workers Alliance of America, the organization of the unemployed...

Dora Kelly Lewis

Dora Kelly Lewis Philadelphia widow from a prominent family who became one of Alice Paul's earliest and most s...

Maud Malone was a New York librarian and longtime suffragist arrested on September 4, 1917 and sentenced to si...

Jean Marshall, a Catholic nurse from Kingston, Massachusetts, and the sister of fellow defendant Paulette Harl...

Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 - April 15, 1951), also recorded as Anna or Annie Martin and occasio...

Timothy Martin, an architect from North Carolina with the climate group Declare Emergency, smeared red and bla...

Louise Parker Mayo

Louise Parker Mayo was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned dur...

Nell Mercer was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the...

Vida Milholland

Vida Milholland Younger sister of Inez Milholland; Vassar-trained singer who abandoned her musical career afte...

Bertha Berglin Moller Delin (1888-1951) was a Minnesota member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "S...

Mary Agnes Hosmer Morey (October 25, 1868 - March 28, 1924) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one...

Phoebe C. Munnecke

Phoebe C. Munnecke (1885 - November 13, 1955) was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silen...

Gwendolyn Myers

Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers (codename Agent 123) was the wife and co-conspirator of Walter Kendall Myers, the...

Kendall Myers (born Walter Kendall Myers) was a long-serving U.S. foreign-affairs official accused of using hi...

Mun Chol Myong is a North Korean businessman who was in the process of importing goods from Singapore to his n...

Jerritt Jeremy Pace is a Washington, DC man sentenced to three years in federal prison for attempting to burn...

Alice Paul Founder of the National Woman's Party and chief strategist of the militant U.S. suffrage movement....

Berry Pottier was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during t...

Institutions in District of Columbia

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

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

War Tax ResistanceWashington, District of Columbia

4 cases

D.C. Central Detention FacilityWashington, District of Columbia

2 cases

Old Capitol PrisonWashington, District of Columbia

2 cases

U.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaWashington, District of Columbia

2 cases

Washington, D.C. JailWashington, District of Columbia

1 case

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