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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.

404Documented
2In custody
321Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Washington

Where Washington’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1910s 155 1970s 38 2000s 28 1960s 28 2020s 25 1980s 25

Recent dashboard entries from Washington

The newest published events and reporting located in Washington, updated automatically from the live dashboard.

Other

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home

Washington, D.C. · Associated Press
Other

White House excludes Politico from Air Force One press pool

Washington, D.C. · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Pro-Data Center Party Interrupted by Protesters in DC

PubKey, Washington, DC · Newsweek
Other

White House excludes CNN from Air Force One press pool for presidential trips

Washington, DC · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC · PBS NewsHour
Other

CNN, MS NOW and Politico barred from White House access; outlets challenge the ban

White House, Washington, DC · U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Protest

Protesters hit Hagerstown to protest major data center proposed for city

Washington County Commissioners, Hagerstown, MD · LocalNews1
Arrest

He brought a guillotine to D.C. He didn’t expect to get arrested.

U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court, Washington, DC · The Washington Post
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Documented cases

404 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Kyle Robert Tornow
Released
Kyle Robert Tornow, 36, of Seattle, was arrested September 2, 2020 for using the Portland Police TrackIT syste...
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Ray Trafton
Released
Ray Trafton was a carpenter and Communist candidate for county commissioner in Skagit County, Washington. He w...
K
Kimberly Jeannine Trimiew
Released
Kimberly Jeannine Trimiew volunteered with the Coalition Against Fur Farms. Her refusal to answer federal gran...
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Paul L. Trout
Released
Paul L. Trout was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
E
Edwart Truitt
Released
Edwart Truitt was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
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Angelus Nick Vlachos
Released
Angelus Nick Vlachos was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Forrest W. Udy
Forrest W. Udy, a Marine Workers Industrial Union activist, was arrested in Seattle and convicted before Judge...
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Bennie Washington
Bennie Washington was a prisoner at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. In a first-person report pub...
N
Nancy Michelle Whitnack
Seattle grand jury resister identified as Michelle Whitnack in her signed July 24, 1976 letter. She reports ac...
R
Russel Milton Wills
Released
Russel Milton Wills was a University of Washington philosophy graduate student who destroyed his draft card in...
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Daniel Wilson
Daniel Wilson was jailed in Olympia after pleading guilty in a May Day 2008 bank-attack case. A contemporary r...
P
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson was one of the former Hudson’s Bay Company employees whom Washington territorial authorities held...
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William Wollertz
Released
William Henry Wollertz, also known as Bill Wollertz, was a lumber worker and organizer of the Anacortes Unempl...
J
Joshua Wollstein
Released
Joshua Wollstein was arrested during Seattle's May Day protest on May 1, 2013 and charged with felony riot. A...
C
Charles Wren
Charles Wren was one of the former Hudson’s Bay Company employees whom Washington territorial authorities held...
B
Buddy Eugene Yates
Buddy Eugene Yates was a Seattle Black Panther section leader. He was arrested in the Market Basket grocery-st...
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Peter James Yeager
Released
Peter James Yeager, 45, USMC veteran, drove from Grand Coulee WA to Spokane on December 9, 2020 with a preconc...
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Leroy Yocash
Leroy Yocash was a Yakama defendant in the Columbia River fishing-rights dispute. Treaty Council News reports...
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Paul Zilsel
Member of Seattle’s Left Bank political collective. Dragon’s editorial note reports all three taken to the pol...
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Nicholas S. Zogg
Released
Nicholas S. Zogg was a civil engineer and an anarchist. Nicholas S. Zogg was convicted in Los Angeles of viola...

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
67 cases
USP McNeil IslandSteilacoom, Washington
43 cases
Washington State PenitentiaryWalla Walla, Washington
13 cases
SeaTac Federal Detention CenterSeaTac, Washington
9 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla / U.S. District Court, W.D. WashingtonWalla Walla, Washington
8 cases
US Forest Service, Sullivan LakeMetaline Falls, Washington
7 cases
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla WallaWalla Walla, Washington
5 cases
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