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Vermont

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 Vermont.

27Documented
0In custody
23Released

Eras of repression in Vermont

Where Vermont’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

2010s 7 1930s 6 1800s 3 2020s 2 1980s 2 1970s 2

Documented cases

27 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

José Enrique Balcázar Sánchez
Released
José Enrique Balcázar Sánchez is a Vermont farmworker organizer with Migrant Justice. ICE detained him on Marc...
José Víctor García Díaz
Released
José Víctor García Díaz is a Migrant Justice farmworker organizer arrested by ICE on April 21, 2016. He became...
Miguel Alcudia Gamas
Released
Miguel Alcudia Gamas is a Migrant Justice farmworker organizer detained by ICE on September 22, 2016. A federa...
Murray Bookchin
Released
Murray Bookchin was a leading American eco-anarchist theorist and founder of the Institute for Social Ecology...
Robert “Nashua” Chantal
Released
Robert “Nashua” Chantal was an Americus, Georgia volunteer who provided housing assistance and worked with int...
Martin Holladay
Released
Martin Holladay was a carpenter from Sheffield, Vermont, and the son of three-time Plowshares activist Jean Ho...
Matthew Lyon
Released
Matthew Lyon was a Congressman from Vermont. He was convicted under the Sedition Act for publishing and circul...
Mohsen Mahdawi
Released
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian lawful permanent resident and Columbia University student organizer, was arreste...
Zully Palacios Rodríguez
Released
Zully Palacios Rodríguez is a Migrant Justice organizer detained by ICE on March 17, 2017, while travelling wi...
Cyrus Pringle
Released
Cyrus Pringle was a Quaker from Charlotte, Vermont — later one of the great American botanists. Cyrus Pringle...
Leo Schiff
Released
Leo Schiff was a draft-registration resister and natural-foods chef from Vermont. No further detailed biograph...
E
Edward Mingo
Edward Mingo was a West Haven, Vermont farmer imprisoned for nonpayment of a $350 civil court judgment. A cont...
B
Bob Atchison
Released
Vermont-based climate activist and member of Declare Emergency, a group that used disruptive highway blockades...
K
Kristina Berster
Released
Kristina Berster was a West German student and prison-reform activist who sought political asylum in the Unite...
E
Eli Calvo Cruz
Eli Calvo Cruz was a Migrant Justice member arrested by Border Patrol on October 25, 2018. The organization’s...
S
Steve Czochor
Released
Steve Czochor was a Vermont marble striker imprisoned during the struggle against the Proctor family-owned mar...
P
Peter Dakin
Released
Peter Dakin was a Quaker from Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Peter Dakin was one of three Vermont Quakers drafted into...
J
John De Saint
Released
John De Saint was a Vermont marble striker imprisoned during the struggle against the Proctor family-owned mar...
A
Anthony Haswell
Released
Anthony Haswell was an English-born printer and editor who emigrated to Massachusetts as a teenager, served br...
H
Halford G. Johnson
Released
Halford G. Johnson was a Vermont marble striker imprisoned during the struggle against the Proctor family-owne...
Z
Zigmont Kantorski
Released
Zigmont Kantorski was a Vermont marble striker imprisoned during the struggle against the Proctor family-owned...
H
Harold G. Mackley
Released
Harold G. Mackley was from Holland, Vermont. Harold G. Mackley was convicted for "disloyalty to ourcountry " a...
L
Lindley Macomber
Released
Lindley Macomber was a Vermont Quaker. Lindley Macomber was drafted in 1863 together with Cyrus Pringle and Pe...
Y
Yesenia Hernández Ramos
Yesenia Hernández Ramos was a Migrant Justice member who took part in a thirteen-mile farmworker-rights march...

Institutions in Vermont

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Vermont that appear in the census’s case files.

Vergennes JailVergennes, Vermont
1 case
Bennington JailBennington, Vermont
1 case