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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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Izhar Muhammad
Released
Izhar Muhammad, Pakistani citizen and crewmember of the dhow Yunus, indicted August 7, 2024 alongside Ghufran...
D
David Muserlian
Released
David Muserlian was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports fro...
P
Percy H. Peters
Released
Percy H. Peters was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War...
E
Eddie L. Phillips
Eddie L. Phillips was a Black prisoner in Virginia who described political retaliation and prolonged segregati...
W
William S. Pickett
Released
William S. Pickett was from Leesburg, Virginia. William S. Pickett was a Leesburg citizen held as a hostage fo...
H
Herbert Lee Pitts
Released
Herbert Lee Pitts was listed among imprisoned war objectors in contemporary CCCO reports from 1970 and 1971.
J
Jim Plato
Jim Plato was individually charged with depredation following the December 28, 1984 Pentagon blood-pouring act...
J
James S. Pleasants
Released
James S. Pleasants was from Loudoun County, Virginia. James S. Pleasants was charged with harboring a Confeder...
Z
Zayneabideen Rasul Al-Murshidi
Released
Zayneabideen Rasul Al-Murshidi joined a March 11, 2024 Palestine-solidarity action that blocked Interstate 95...
H
Homer Morris Reed
Released
Homer Morris Reed was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World Wa...
J
John L. Rinker
Released
John L. Rinker was from Leesburg, Virginia. John L. Rinker was a Leesburg citizen held as a hostage for civili...
E
Eddie Robinette
Released
Eddie Robinette was a conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
R
Roy Rudd
Roy Rudd chaired the Norfolk tenants' rent-strike committee. The November 10, 1932 Daily Worker names him and...
G
George W. Ryan
Released
George W. Ryan was a civilian from Leesburg, Virginia, held at Fort Delaware during the American Civil War. In...
C
Christopher Kyle Salmon
Released
Christopher Kyle Salmon was convicted of attempted arson in connection with the January 2004 ELF-claimed Molot...
L
Lindsey Scott
Lindsey Scott was a Black Marine corporal whose 1983 prosecution at Quantico became the subject of a civil-rig...
J
John Shanks
Released
John Shanks was from Norfolk, Virginia. John Shanks was a Norfolk 'underground' mail carrier condemned to impr...
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T. Jefferson Shreve
Released
T. Jefferson Shreve was from Loudoun County, Virginia. T. Jefferson Shreve was imprisoned for guiding the Conf...
E
Erin Sieber
Released
Erin Sieber was a Catholic Worker who in April 2001 carried out a symbolic disarmament action at the Pentagon....
A
Al Simmons
Released
Al Simmons, a Richmond, Virginia peace activist, was one of six people prosecuted after demonstrators carried...
J
Jeffrey Scott Sovern
Jeffrey Scott Sovern is a Suffolk, Virginia engineer who opposes automated license-plate surveillance. Police...
A
Andrew Moore Stegner
Released
Andrew Stegner, 19, of Lynchburg, VA was charged with throwing a projectile into an occupied building (felony)...
T
T. H. Stone
T. H. Stone was secretary of the Unemployed Council in Richmond, Virginia. The Daily Worker of December 23, 19...
B
Bill Streit
Released
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, DC); took part in the 1991 ANZUS Peace Force Plowshares at Griffiss A...
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