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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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Jesse D. Sykes
Released
Jesse D. Sykes was from Princess Anne County, Virginia. Jesse D. Sykes was sentenced to about a year for aidin...
R
Robert Talmanson
Released
Robert Talmanson was a Vietnam-era draft resister convicted of failing to comply with orders to report for a p...
L
Lottie E. Taylor
Released
Lottie E. Taylor was a Black bus passenger who challenged segregated seating while traveling from Washington,...
B
Barbara A. Thomas
Released
Barbara A. Thomas was a 21-year-old student at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College who served a 30-d...
G
Gillet Thorn
Released
Gillet Thorn was from Accomac County, Virginia. Gillet Thorn was an Eastern Shore citizen confined for blockad...
J
James True
Released
James True was a Washington-area writer and publisher of Industrial Control Reports. He promoted antisemitic a...
N
Nat Turner
Nat Turner was imprisoned and prosecuted following the 1831 uprising in Southampton County, Virginia. A gubern...
G
Ghufran Ullah
Released
Ghufran Ullah, Pakistani citizen and crewmember of the dhow Yunus, was indicted August 7, 2024 in the Pahlawan...
T
Thomas Wansley
Released
Thomas Wansley was a Black teenager arrested in 1962 in Lynchburg, Virginia at the age of 17 on a rape charge...
B
Burnham Wardwell
Released
Burnham Wardwell was a Maine-born ice dealer living in Richmond. Burnham Wardwell was an outspoken Union sympa...
S
Scott Kenji Warren
Released
Scott Kenji Warren was a Washington-area Catholic Worker peace activist who joined an April 2001 nonviolent ac...
E
Ernest D. Wells
Released
Ernest D. Wells was from Virginia. Ernest D. Wells was a Christadelphian and objected to military service on r...
E
Edwin Westphal
Released
Edwin Westphal was held under guard in an alcoholic ward at the Federal Rehabilitation Camp in Fort Eustis, Vi...
K
Kim Williams
Released
Kim Williams is associated with the Norfolk Catholic Worker. An eyewitness report by Art Laffin documents her...
J
John Beery Wilson
Released
John Beery Wilson was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Virginia imprisoned during World Wa...
S
Steve Woolford
Released
Steve Woolford was a Catholic Worker peace activist. He served six months in 2003 following a Pentagon blood-p...
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Robert Wray
Released
Robert Wray was listed among imprisoned war objectors in contemporary CCCO reports from 1970 and 1971.
A
Alexander Wright
Released
Alexander Wright was a Black Norfolk dockworker and Communist Party organizer who ran for the United States Se...
C
Charles Wright
Released
Charles Wright was from Accomac County, Virginia. Charles Wright was an Eastern Shore citizen confined for blo...
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