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Maryland
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.
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William T. Aud
Released
William T. Aud, of Montgomery County, Maryland, was sentenced to a year for aiding a woman's escape to the Sou...
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Archie Bayer
Released
Archie Bayer was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Jon Bayless
Released
A layperson and, at age 17, the youngest of the Silver Spring Three, Jon Bayless (brother of Les Bayless) took...
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Les Bayless
Released
A young layperson (age 22) living at the 'Blair House' commune near the draft board, Les Bayless was one of th...
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Donta Betts
Released
Black Baltimore 20-year-old federally convicted for his role in the April 2015 Freddie Gray uprising — specifi...
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Kristen Betts
Released
Kristen Betts was arrested at the Andrews Air Force Base Open House on May 2000 for holding a banner and leafl...
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Kathy Boylan
Released
Kathy Boylan is a longtime peace activist with Jonah House in Baltimore and a member of the Atlantic Life Comm...
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Michael Bransome
Released
A layperson (age 18) living at the Blair House commune, Bransome was one of the three who destroyed several hu...
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Sherrie Brown
Sherrie Brown was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the def...
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Allen Bullock
Released
Black teenage Baltimore protester whose photograph smashing a Baltimore Police Department patrol car windshiel...
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George Butler
Released
George Butler was linked, in a recovered account from the Fort Delaware State Park series, with Wesley Shields...
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Mark Caesar
Released
Mark Caesar, a free Black man of Charles County, Maryland, was tried in 1845 as an "accomplice of slave flight...
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John Clark
John Clark was jailed during a 1969 Baltimore Panther confrontation with police. The Party reported the defend...
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Lewis William Cohen
Released
Lewis William Cohen was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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James Cunningham
Released
James Cunningham, 40 at the time of Trident Nein, was a former lawyer who had given up a high-living legal pra...
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John W. Davis
Released
John W. Davis was a Baltimore police commissioner. On July 1, 1861, after federal authorities seized control o...
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Robert Douglas
Released
The Reverend Robert Douglas was a Baltimore-area clergyman detained during the federal crackdown on Confederat...
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Robert E. Fox
Released
Robert E. Fox was a conscientious objector from Maryland imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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William H. Gatchell
Released
William H. Gatchell was a Baltimore police commissioner. On July 1, 1861, after federal authorities seized con...
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Isaac Gibson
Released
Isaac Gibson, a free African American of Caroline County, Maryland, helped an enslaved man named John Stokes a...
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William H. Gibson
Released
William H. Gibson, of Maryland, was held without trial and released on the oath of amnesty. He was held as a c...
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Frank T. Grady
Released
Frank T. Grady, of Maryland, was held without trial; he firmly refused the oath and was released on parole to...
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William G. Harrison
Released
William G. Harrison was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates arrested in the September 1861 federal swe...
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Hugh Hazlett
Released
Hugh Hazlett was an Irish immigrant wood sawyer and Underground Railroad conductor in Maryland. On the night o...
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