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Washington
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 Washington.
280Documented
1In custody
270Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Washington
Where Washington’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 141
2000s 22
1950s 21
2020s 19
1970s 19
2010s 11
Documented cases
280 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Earl Osborne
Released
Earl Osborne was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and c...
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Julianne Panagacos
Released
Named plaintiff in Panagacos v. Towery (W.D. Wash. No. 3:10-cv-05018-RBL), the federal civil-rights lawsuit fi...
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Devinare Antwan Parker
Released
Devinare Antwan Parker, 25, was charged in Seattle, WA with unlawful possession of a destructive device after...
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A. J. Partan
Released
A. J. Partan was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from May 6, 1919, t...
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Morris Pass
Released
Morris Pass was the brother of Joseph Pass. An artist from Seattle, Washington, Morris Pass received a two-yea...
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C. F. Payne
Released
C. F. Payne received a prison sentence for violating the state's criminal syndicalism law because he belonged...
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Rudolph Peterson
Released
Rudolph Peterson, a laborer from Yakima, Washington, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in McNe...
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Maddy Pfeiffer
Released
Maddy Pfeiffer was the longest-held of the PNW Grand Jury Resisters: subpoenaed by a successor federal grand j...
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Herbert J. Phillips
Released
Herbert J. Phillips was a former University of Washington philosophy professor, fired in 1948, who was jailed...
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Herbert Phillips
Released
Herbert J. Phillips was a former University of Washington philosophy professor — one of the first scholars fir...
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Edgecomb Pincho
Released
Edgecomb Pincho was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from Augus...
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Roman Pisito
Released
Roman Pisito was a Spokane-based Filipino member of the Alaska Cannery Workers and ILWU Local 37 who faced den...
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Michael D. Poulin
Released
Michael D. Poulin was convicted in 2003 of damaging electricity transmission towers in Washington state in a s...
J
Joe Prudencio
Released
Joe Prudencio was a member of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle Filipino cannery workers' union, facing deportation u...
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William Randall
Released
William Randall, secretary of the IWW local in Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced to three years in prison. He...
J
John Rawlings
Released
John Rawlings was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
J
Jose Raymundo
Released
Jose Raymundo was a member of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle Filipino cannery workers' union, facing deportation u...
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Thomas F. Reed
Released
Thomas F. Reed was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Michael J. Reilly
Released
Michael J. Reilly was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail...
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W. M. Reivo
Released
W. M. Reivo was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in McNeil Island Penitentiary from May 6, 19...
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Paul Douglas Revak
Released
Paul Douglas Revak, age 20, an anarchist, was arrested after attempting to purchase explosives from an underco...
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Andrea Robbins
Released
Named plaintiff in Panagacos v. Towery (W.D. Wash. No. 3:10-cv-05018-RBL), the federal civil-rights lawsuit fi...
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Fred H. Robinson
Released
Fred H. Robinson was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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Alicia Rosenbaum
Released
Alicia Rosenbaum, a twenty-one-year-old stenographer, was arrested with W. E. Spear and Ed Burns in the April...
Institutions in Washington
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Washington that appear in the census’s case files.
Snohomish County JailEverett, Washington
75 cases
McNeil Island Federal PenitentiarySteilacoom, Washington
63 cases
USP McNeil IslandSteilacoom, Washington
46 cases
Washington State PenitentiaryWalla Walla, Washington
10 cases
SeaTac Federal Detention CenterSeaTac, Washington
8 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla / U.S. District Court, W.D. WashingtonWalla Walla, Washington
7 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla WallaWalla Walla, Washington
5 cases
Washington State ReformatoryMonroe, Washington
5 cases