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South 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 South Carolina.
57Documented
2In custody
23Released
Eras of repression in South Carolina
Where South Carolina’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 10
1800s 10
2020s 9
2000s 9
1930s 5
1920s 5
Recent dashboard entries from South Carolina
The newest published events and reporting located in South Carolina, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
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Ridge Spring police chief accused of threatening arrest after a resident criticized Flock cameras on Facebook
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BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
Protest
Protests continue at SC State House for 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton
Protest
State House rally reignites calls for justice after Rick Chow found not guilty
Protest
Demonstrators in Bluffton protest ICE operation, call for support of immigrant families
Protest
Protesters rally on Statehouse steps to oppose redistricting in South Carolina
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May Day protest fills the South Carolina State House grounds
Protest
Hundreds rally at Falls Park demanding immigration accountability
Documented cases
57 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Malik Fard Muhammad
In Custody
During the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Malik Muhammad, a disabled army veteran with ext...
Shabazz Akeem Isiah Watson
In Custody
Shabazz Akeem Isiah Watson was federally prosecuted for setting fires at four Charleston, South Carolina busin...
Sundiata Jawanza
Released
Sundiata Jawanza, born Darvin Allen, has been imprisoned in the South Carolina state prison system since 1995,...
Daniel Clarke-Pounder
Released
Daniel Clarke-Pounder was arrested on March 13, 2025 for allegedly throwing incendiary devices at a North Char...
Cliff Cornell
Released
Specialist Cliff Cornell was a U.S. Army soldier with the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia, who...
Joseph DeLaine
Released
Joseph DeLaine was a minister who organized the Clarendon County, South Carolina school-desegregation campaign...
Thomas Gaither
Released
Thomas Walter Gaither, born November 12, 1938 in Great Falls, South Carolina, was a Claflin College graduate a...
Tearra NaAsia Guthrie
Released
Tearra NaAsia Guthrie was 23 and from Charleston when charged September 8, 2020 with civil disorder for the Ma...
Kelsey Donnel Jackson
Released
Kelsey Jackson, 28, of Charleston, SC pled guilty to arson of a Charleston Police Department patrol car on May...
Ryan Jackson
Released
Ryan Jackson was a US Army private who sought release from military service on conscientious grounds before de...
Abraham Elijah Jenkins
Released
Abraham Elijah Jenkins, 26, of Charleston SC, was charged September 8, 2020 with civil disorder for the May 30...
Orlando Shalrocko King
Released
Orlando King, 31, of North Charleston, SC was indicted on charges of violating the Anti-Riot Act on May 30, 20...
Brittany Martin
Released
Brittany Martin was arrested on June 4, 2020 following protests against police violence in Sumter, South Carol...
Andrew Pulley
Andrew Pulley was a Black antiwar Army organizer at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and a member of the Fort Jac...
Cleveland Sellers
Released
Cleveland Sellers was the national program director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). O...
Albert Stangeland
Released
Albert Stangeland was an Industrial Workers of the World member from Chicago imprisoned by the US military dur...
Charles Wakefield
Released
Charles Wakefield was a 21-year-old Black man in Greenville, South Carolina, convicted in 1976 of murdering Gr...
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Joe Rudder
Joe Rudder was an Army private and member of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam at Fort Jackson, South Caro...
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Joe Cole
Joe Cole was an Army private and member of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam at Fort Jackson, South Caroli...
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James Yee
Released
James Yee was a U.S. Army chaplain at Guantánamo Bay who raised concerns about prisoners’ treatment. The Easte...
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William Anderson
Released
William Anderson was a 19-year-old assistant secretary of the Greenville, South Carolina NAACP branch and head...
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Joe Booker
The Fort Jackson Eight report names this soldier among the four still in the stockade at the time of the April...
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Martin Carter
Martin Carter was executed with Starling Clayton in Barnwell District, South Carolina, for assisting fugitive...
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Milton Chaney
Milton Chaney was convicted in Lancaster District, South Carolina, of carrying away an enslaved man named Tone...
Institutions in South Carolina
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in South Carolina that appear in the census’s case files.
Aiken County JailAiken, South Carolina
5 cases
FCI EdgefieldEdgefield, South Carolina
3 cases
South Carolina Department of CorrectionsColumbia, South Carolina
2 cases
U.S. District Court, District of South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
2 cases
Turbeville Correctional InstitutionTurbeville, South Carolina
1 case
Federal Correctional Institution, WilliamsburgSalters, South Carolina
1 case
Naval Consolidated Brig, CharlestonCharleston, South Carolina
1 case
York County Prison FarmYork, South Carolina
1 case