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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 Maryland.
121Documented
0In custody
113Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Maryland
Where Maryland’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 43
1960s 16
1970s 14
1980s 11
1910s 9
2000s 7
Documented cases
121 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Tom Lewis
Released
Tom Lewis was a member of the "Baltimore Four", a group of antiwar protestors during the late 60s who poured b...
Neil McLaughlin
Released
Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Catholic Left anti-war activist. Indicted as a member of t...
Marjorie Melville
Released
A former Maryknoll sister and peace activist shaped by years of work in Guatemala, Melville joined the Catonsv...
Tom Melville
Released
A former Maryknoll priest whose activism was shaped by experiences in Guatemala, Melville became part of the C...
John Merryman
Released
John Merryman was a wealthy Maryland farmer and lieutenant in a state militia secessionist company who was arr...
George Aloysius Meyers
Released
George Aloysius Meyers was a textile-union organizer and Communist Party leader imprisoned under the Smith Act...
George Mische
Released
A Catholic peace organizer, Mische was one of the principal planners of the Catonsville Nine’s 1968 draft-reco...
Mary Moylan
Released
A nurse-midwife and antiwar activist, Moylan was one of two women in the Catonsville Nine. She participated in...
Michele Naar-Obed
Released
Michele Naar-Obed is associated with Catholic pacifist direct action against nuclear weapons and militarism, p...
Maximilian J. "Max" Obuszewski
Released
Maximilian J. "Max" Obuszewski (born around 1944-1945) is a Baltimore-based peace activist arrested roughly se...
Geoffrey Parsons
Released
Activist from Maryland arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in Atlan...
Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones
Awaiting Trial
Aurelio Luis Perez-Lugones is a systems engineer and information technology specialist from Laurel, Maryland —...
John Potthast
Released
John Potthast, a laborer from Baltimore, Maryland, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sente...
Rexford Powell
Released
Rexford Powell was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
Anthony Scoblick
Released
Former Josephite priest from Baltimore; participated in the November 7, 1969 Boston 8 draft-board raid. Indict...
Mary Cain Scoblick
Released
Former Catholic nun from Baltimore married to former priest Anthony Scoblick. Participated in the November 196...
Darius Stewart
Released
Black Baltimore defendant convicted of arson on West North Avenue during the April 2015 Freddie Gray uprising....
Charles T. Torrey
Released
Charles Turner Torrey was a Congregationalist minister and abolitionist editor. He is credited with helping ap...
Severn Teackle Wallis
Released
Severn Teackle Wallis was a distinguished Baltimore lawyer and man of letters and a member of the Maryland Hou...
Joseph Wenderoth
Released
Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, member of the Baltimore "Ghetto Priests" working in inn...
Laura Whitehorn
Released
Laura Whitehorn emerged from 1960s-era civil rights and anti-war organizing into a trajectory of feminist educ...
Ross Winans
Released
Ross Winans was a wealthy Baltimore inventor and railroad-equipment manufacturer who, at the outbreak of the C...
Donald Zepeda
Released
Donald Jose-David Zepeda, age 35, of Maryland, a member of the climate group Declare Emergency, dumped red pow...
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George Armistead Appleton
Released
George Armistead Appleton was a Baltimore civilian detained without charge during the federal suppression of s...
Institutions in Maryland
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Maryland that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort McHenryBaltimore, Maryland
10 cases
Kent County Detention CenterChestertown, Maryland
6 cases
Calvert County Detention CenterPrince Frederick, Maryland
5 cases
Maryland PenitentiaryBaltimore, Maryland
4 cases
Charles County Detention CenterLa Plata, Maryland
3 cases
FCI CumberlandCumberland, Maryland
2 cases
Washington, DC RRMAnnapolis Junct, Maryland
1 case
Baltimore City JailBaltimore, Maryland
1 case