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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.
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Roy Hudson
Page 1 identifies Roy Hudson, secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, as recently arrested on vagran...
R
Ronald Humphrey
Released
Ronald Louis Humphrey, born around 1936, was a United States Information Agency (USIA) foreign-service officer...
R
Robert Lee Johnson
Robert Lee Johnson was a Black Virginia prisoner whose Norfolk murder conviction became an International Labor...
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Osbert Jones
Released
Osbert Jones appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
J
Jeff Keith
Released
Jeff Keith was a conscientious objector imprisoned at Lewisburg and Petersburg during the 1960s.
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Timothy Ryan Kennedy
Released
Timothy Ryan Kennedy was convicted of attempted arson in connection with the January 2004 ELF-claimed Molotov-...
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Joseph P. Klein
Page 1 identifies Joseph P. Klein, Communist Party section organizer, as recently arrested on vagrancy charges...
W
William E. “Bill” Kuykendall
Released
William E. “Bill” Kuykendall was a control-room operator trainee at Virginia Electric and Power Company’s Surr...
R
Robert LaDue
Released
Robert LaDue was listed among imprisoned war objectors in contemporary CCCO reports from 1970 and 1971.
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Ronald LaDue
Released
Ronald LaDue was listed among imprisoned war objectors in contemporary CCCO reports from 1970 and 1971.
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Guilford Lee
Guilford Lee is a gay prisoner at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Virginia who sought legal assistance and filed...
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Norvel Lee
Released
Norvel Lee was a boxer, educator and civil rights pioneer from Eagle Rock, Virginia. On September 14, 1948, th...
R
Reginald Leftwich
Released
Reginald Leftwich was a Black farmworker held on a murder charge in the Lynchburg area of Virginia in 1933. He...
A
Aaron Labe Linas
Released
Aaron Labe Linas, age 19, was convicted of conspiracy to damage and destroy property by means of fire and expl...
J
John Mason
Released
John Mason was from Accomac County, Virginia. John Mason was confined about six months on a charge of smugglin...
M
Mohammad Mazhar
Released
Mohammad Mazhar, Pakistani citizen, brother of dhow captain Muhammad Pahlawan; indicted December 4, 2024 in th...
J
John W. McCabe
Released
John W. McCabe was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War I. C...
C
Connor Joris McCarty
Released
Connor Joris McCarty joined a March 11, 2024 Palestine-solidarity action that blocked Interstate 95 near Richm...
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James A. Merrill Jr.
Released
James A. Merrill Jr. was a control-room operator trainee at Virginia Electric and Power Company’s Surry nuclea...
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Sarah Elizabeth Milkowski Dahlgren
Released
Sarah Elizabeth Milkowski Dahlgren joined a March 11, 2024 Palestine-solidarity action that blocked Interstate...
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Larry Moreland
Larry Moreland was imprisoned after an antiwar protest that marked the Pentagon with Reagan-Herod graffiti dur...
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Thomas Morgan
Released
Thomas Morgan was a conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
A
Arthur Moskovitz
Released
Arthur Moskovitz appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
J
Jay Allen Moss
Released
Jay Allen Moss was imprisoned at Petersburg for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
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