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Virginia
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 Virginia.
211Documented
11In custody
161Released
4Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Virginia
Where Virginia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 41
2020s 35
1970s 27
1930s 20
2010s 18
2000s 18
Recent dashboard entries from Virginia
The newest published events and reporting located in Virginia, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
NYT: CIA Secretly Established New Cuba Task Force
Other
Fourth Circuit upholds Badar Khan Suri’s release and rejects government bid to re-detain him
Protest
Richmond protesters demand a statewide moratorium on new Virginia data-center approvals
Other
Trump Loyalist Bill Pulte Begins Purge at National Intelligence Office
Other
The Defense Department Is Posting QAnon Memes
Protest
A Charlottesville housing coalition rallies at City Hall over student-housing
Arrest
Virginia Beach woman Jessica Pinsky was charged with disorderly conduct for kicking a "Trump Train" pickup at a "No Kings" rally; the case is pending
Prosecution
Eleview International owner Oleg Nayandin and a senior employee, Vitaliy Borisenko, were sentenced for illegally exporting millions of dollars of U.S. technology to Russia through third countries
Documented cases
211 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Pryce Lewis
Released
Pryce Lewis was a Welsh-born Pinkerton operative. Pryce Lewis was sent into Richmond in 1862 to check on the a...
Tim Lietzke
Released
Tim Lietzke was a member of Jeremiah House, a Catholic peace community in Richmond, Virginia, at the time of t...
Corey Long
Released
Used an improvised aerosol flamethrower at the Aug 2017 Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville; disorderly con...
James Murray Mason
Released
James Murray Mason was a Virginia politician who served in the U.S. House and Senate — where he authored the F...
Noah McHugh
Released
Noah McHugh was a Department of Defense computer technician and hacker affiliated with the group Anonymous, Af...
Judith Miller
Released
Judith Miller was a New York Times reporter jailed for eighty-five days in 2005 for refusing to identify a con...
Booker T. Millner
Released
Booker T. Millner was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the a...
Albert Moore
Albert Moore helped organize the Black Community Information Center in Richmond, Virginia, with his brother Ho...
Howard Moore
Howard Moore worked with his brother Albert to establish the Black Community Information Center in Richmond, V...
Alejandra Pablos
Released
Alejandra Pablos is an immigration and reproductive justice activist who was brought to the United States as a...
Camilo Pereira
Released
Camilo Pereira participated in the June 2014 blockade of Alpha Natural Resources headquarters in Bristol, Virg...
Edward A. Pollard
Released
Edward A. Pollard was the editor of the Richmond Examiner and a prominent Confederate journalist, later author...
Asa Rogers
Released
Asa Rogers was from Loudoun County, Virginia. Asa Rogers was an aged militia officer seized without warning an...
Jocelyn Sawyer
Released
Jocelyn Sawyer is an environmental organizer who participated in the May 24, 2013 blockade of the access road...
Sharon Scranage
Released
Sharon Scranage was a clerk with the Central Intelligence Agency whose case became one of the best-known espio...
David E. Scull
Released
David E. Scull was a Quaker printer of Annandale, Virginia, who refused to answer 31 questions put to him by t...
Galen Sol Shireman-Grabowski
Released
Galen Sol Shireman-Grabowski, age 24, locked himself to a helicopter used by Mountain Valley Pipeline crews in...
Elmina Slenker
Released
Elmina Slenker was a freethought writer, atheist and birth control advocate, in Snowville, Virginia. Postal in...
Michael Agbotui Soussoudis
Released
Michael Agbotui Soussoudis was a Ghanaian intelligence officer accused of obtaining classified information fro...
Glenn Michael Souther
In Exile
Glenn Michael Souther was a former U.S. Navy photographer and intelligence specialist with access to sensitive...
Jeffrey Sterling
Released
Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA officer who leaked state secrets to the public (namely, the US's plan to give...
Badar Khan Suri
Released
Badar Khan Suri is an Indian researcher and scholar at Georgetown University who was detained by U.S. immigrat...
John Clabon Taylor
Released
John Clabon Taylor was one of the Martinsville Seven — seven Black Virginia men arrested January 1949 for the...
David Truong
Released
David Truong — born Trương Đình Hùng in Saigon on September 2, 1945 — was a Vietnamese anti–Vietnam War activi...
Institutions in Virginia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Virginia that appear in the census’s case files.
Castle ThunderRichmond, Virginia
22 cases
Castle GodwinRichmond, Virginia
21 cases
Occoquan Workhouse
15 cases
Virginia State PenitentiaryRichmond, Virginia
12 cases
Occoquan Workhouse / DC JailLorton, Virginia
11 cases
Charles Town Jail (Jefferson County)Charles Town, Virginia
7 cases
FCI PetersburgHopewell, Virginia
6 cases
Federal Reformatory, PetersburgPetersburg, Virginia
3 cases