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North Carolina
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 North Carolina.
200Documented
5In custody
147Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in North Carolina
Where North Carolina’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 48
1970s 37
1920s 32
2010s 15
2020s 14
1800s 10
Recent dashboard entries from North Carolina
The newest published events and reporting located in North Carolina, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Federal jury convicts William Stanley and Heather Morrow of misdemeanors after a blockade of Charlotte’s ICE office
Other
Treasury denies G20 summit credentials to reporters from major outlets and Asheville newsrooms
Protest
Hundreds rally and march in Pack Square Park for May Day 'Workers Over Billionaires'
Protest
Hundreds stage a die-in against ICE in Wilmington
Prosecution
Heather Morrow's felony assault charge is dropped and refiled as misdemeanors after a Charlotte ICE protest
Protest
Student-led march against ICE and Border Patrol raids in Durham
Protest
Hundreds of NC State students march against ICE from the Memorial Belltower
Arrest
Woman charged with assaulting an officer at a Charlotte ICE-office protest
Documented cases
200 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
James McKoy
Released
James McKoy was one of the Wilmington 10, convicted in 1972 on conspiracy and arson charges arising from the F...
Louis McLaughlin
Released
Louis McLaughlin was one of seven National Textile Workers Union defendants convicted on October 21, 1929 of c...
Jean McNair
Released
Jean McNair was a teacher and black revolutionary who along with her husband and three others hijacked Delta A...
Larry Medley
Released
Larry Medley was one of the High Point Four, jailed after the February 10, 1971 confrontation at the Panther i...
Sophie Melvin
Released
Sophie Melvin was a nineteen-year-old youth organizer and one of the three women charged with murder. Sophie M...
Clarence Miller
Released
Clarence Miller was a National Textile Workers Union organizer convicted on October 21, 1929, of conspiracy in...
Wayne Moore
Released
Wayne Moore was among the Black students drawn into Wilmington’s 1971 school boycott and protests for educatio...
Heather Morrow
Released
Heather Morrow was arrested on the morning of November 16, 2025 while protesting immigration enforcement outsi...
Howard Overman
Released
Howard Overman was a Burlington, North Carolina textile worker prosecuted over mill-dynamiting incidents durin...
Charles Parker
Released
Charles Parker was a young civil rights and antiwar activist in Charlotte during an era when Black political o...
Marvin Patrick
Released
Marvin “Chilly” Patrick was one of the Wilmington-area Black students involved in the protest movement and sch...
Boyd Payton
Released
Boyd Ellsworth Payton was a regional director of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), heading the unio...
Gail Phares
Released
Gail S. Phares is a former Maryknoll lay missioner who served in Nicaragua and Guatemala in the 1960s and is a...
Charles Pittman
Released
Arson of Fayetteville Market House during May 30 2020 protest. Sentence: 5 years federal prison. Verified via...
Alexander Charles Pridgen
Released
Alexander Charles Pridgen, 18, of Greenville NC, threw a brick through a ground-floor window of the federal ba...
Thomas James Reddy
Released
Black poet, painter, and civil rights activist and one of the 'Charlotte Three,' convicted in 1972 in Charlott...
George Saul
Released
George J. Saul organized Southern textile workers for the National Textile Workers Union and worked for the In...
Cliff Saylors
Released
Cliff Saylors was a textile worker and Southern organizer for the International Labor Defense during the Gasto...
Junius Scales
Released
Junius Scales was born in Greensboro, NC; his great-uncle was NC Governor Alfred Moore Scales. Chair Carolinas...
Amy Schechter
Released
Amy Schechter was a Workers International Relief organizer and one of the three women charged with murder. Amy...
David Simpson
Released
David 'Fuzzy' Simpson was a seven-year-old boy arrested with nine-year-old Hanover Thompson in the 1958 'Kissi...
Duncan Andrew Small
Released
Duncan Andrew Small, 30, Asheville co-defendant of Chioke Fugate; lit and threw explosive devices at the forme...
Dustin Stevens
Released
Dustin Stevens entered the U.S. Army in 2002 and refused to complete 82nd Airborne Division training after con...
Shante Sutton
Released
Set fires inside Greenville NC businesses during May 31 2020 unrest; served active sentence for burning a buil...
Institutions in North Carolina
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in North Carolina that appear in the census’s case files.
North Carolina state courtsWilmington, North Carolina
10 cases
Gaston County JailGastonia, North Carolina
9 cases
North Carolina State Penitentiary (Central Prison)Raleigh, North Carolina
7 cases
Buncombe County Superior Court
5 cases
Union County JailMonroe, North Carolina
3 cases
Camp Lejeune brigCamp Lejeune, North Carolina
2 cases
North Carolina State Prison System
2 cases
FMC ButnerButner, North Carolina
2 cases