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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.
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Randolph Kilfoil
Released
Member ("King Paul") of the Greensboro chapter of the Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation and half-brother of c...
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Avery Kimrey
Released
Avery Kimrey was one of seven Burlington, North Carolina textile workers prosecuted over mill-dynamiting incid...
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Roderick Kirby
Released
Roderick Lionell Kirby was an 18-year-old Wilmington, North Carolina civil-rights activist arrested after an O...
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Russell Knight
Released
Russell Knight was a striker held in an isolation cell after contracting smallpox in jail. Russell Knight was...
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Kendall Langley
Kendall Langley was listed by Breakthrough in its Summer 1992 prisoner directory as a Gulf War military resist...
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Seth Laughlin
Released
Seth Laughlin was a North Carolina man who, having become convinced of Friends' peace principles, joined the M...
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Alton Lawrence (North Carolina Socialist, 1934)
Alton Lawrence was state secretary of the Socialist Party in North Carolina. The Daily Worker of September 8,...
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Lawrence La’Stylez
Lawrence La’Stylez is a Black queer prison-rights activist from Norfolk, Virginia. In June 2025 UPROAR identif...
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Simon C. Legain
Released
Simon C. Legain was a Quaker conscientious objector from North Carolina imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...
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Justin Gray Liverman
Released
Justin Gray Liverman, known online as D3F4ULT, participated in Crackas With Attitude, a politically motivated...
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Walter Lloyd
Released
Walter Lloyd is individually listed among eight Gastonia textile-strike defendants already out on bonds in the...
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Benny Long
Released
Benny Long was jailed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after city police, led by Officer R.A. Spillman, forced...
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John Lowery
Released
John Lowery was one of the Monroe, North Carolina defendants held on the kidnapping charge that arose from the...
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Patrick Lowrie
Released
Patrick Lowrie was an active-duty Marine from Miami who resisted participation in the Persian Gulf War. A cont...
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Ernest Martin
Released
Ernest Martin is individually listed among eight Gastonia textile-strike defendants already out on bonds in th...
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McGuinnas (Gastonia striker)
McGuinnas was among the Gastonia textile-strike pickets actually arrested and tried on a parading accusation....
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Fred McMahan
Released
Fred McMahan was a United Textile Workers member from Gastonia, North Carolina. Arrested and sentenced on Octo...
E
Edith Saunders Miller
Released
Edith Saunders Miller was a Gastonia textile-strike participant and defense witness in 1929. The October 16 Da...
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Alph Minter
Released
Alph Minter was a Black farmer with small farms in Orange and Chatham counties, North Carolina. The January 2,...
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George Moore
Released
George Moore was sentenced to death at Winston-Salem, North Carolina for stealing a pair of shoes reportedly w...
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Leon Moore
Released
Leon Moore was a nineteen-year-old textile striker sentenced to five to seven years for dynamiting a house dur...
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Marty Nathan
Marty Nathan was a Greensboro anti-Klan activist and the widow of a Communist Workers Party member killed in t...
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Charlie Henry Newkirk
Released
Charlie Henry Newkirk was a conscientious objector from North Carolina imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Albert E. Perry Jr.
Released
Dr. Albert E. Perry Jr. was vice-president of the Union County NAACP in Monroe, North Carolina, and a close al...
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