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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.
193Documented
4In custody
151Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Maryland
Where Maryland’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 51
1970s 33
1960s 28
1930s 25
1980s 14
1910s 9
Recent dashboard entries from Maryland
The newest published events and reporting located in Maryland, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Rep. Andy Harris Threatens Journalist With Potential Criminal Charges for Recording Him
Other
Attorney says Air Force Maj. Jason Watson remains in round-the-clock solitary confinement
Prosecution
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia deportation hearing canceled in Greenbelt
Protest
Protesters hit Hagerstown to protest major data center proposed for city
Protest
ICE agents use batons during a confrontation with protesters in Frederick’s Tasker’s Chance neighborhood
Other
Sonny Rollins Lived to See Justice for His Wrongly Convicted Father
Prosecution
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison in an admitted error, was returned to the U.S. and indicted on smuggling charges; a judge dismissed the case in May 2026 as a vindictive prosecution
Protest
Thousands rally against Trump and an ICE detention center in Hagerstown
Documented cases
193 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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...
Samuel Loring Morison
Released
Samuel Loring Morison was a Navy intelligence analyst and naval historian who supplied Jane’s Defence Weekly w...
Mary Moylan
Released
Mary Moylan was a nurse-midwife and antiwar activist and one of two women in the Catonsville Nine. She partici...
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 —...
Jim Perkins
Released
Jim Perkins was a teacher and father living in the Jonah House resistance community in Baltimore at the time o...
John Potthast
Released
John Potthast was a laborer from Baltimore, Maryland. John Potthast was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sac...
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...
Walter Stack
The July 3 issue’s retrospective labor-news summary identifies marine worker Walter Stack as jailed and banish...
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 T. Torrey was a Congregationalist minister and abolitionist editor. He is credited with helping approx...
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
Joseph Wenderoth was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, member of the Baltimore "Ghetto...
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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Donald Franklin Swope
In Custody
Donald Franklin Swope was taken into federal custody in September 2026 after prosecutors accused him of repeat...
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Rick Sanseverino
Rick Sanseverino was individually named among five Salem Resistance protesters who actually served three days...
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Gay Sanseverino
Gay Sanseverino was individually named among five Salem Resistance protesters who actually served three days i...
Institutions in Maryland
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Maryland that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort McHenryBaltimore, Maryland
92 cases
Maryland PenitentiaryBaltimore, Maryland
6 cases
Kent County Detention CenterChestertown, Maryland
5 cases
Baltimore City JailBaltimore, Maryland
5 cases
Calvert County Detention CenterPrince Frederick, Maryland
5 cases
Charles County Detention CenterLa Plata, Maryland
3 cases
FCI CumberlandCumberland, Maryland
2 cases
Washington, DC RRMAnnapolis Junct, Maryland
1 case