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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.

John Lamb
Released
John Lamb was one of the eight IWW defendants tried at Montesano (Grays Harbor County), WA from January 26 to...
Jack Leonard
Released
Jack Leonard was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and c...
Robert Leonard
Released
Robert Leonard was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
Michael Lerner
Released
Michael Phillip Lerner was an American rabbi, political activist, and editor known for his leadership in progr...
Chief Leschi
Chief Leschi was a Nisqually leader who resisted Governor Isaac Stevens's coercive 1854 Treaty of Medicine Cre...
Roger Lippman
Released
Roger Lippman was an antiwar organizer and Seattle Seven defendant. He describes being jailed after his April...
Samuel Lippman
Released
Samuel Lippman was an anarchist from New York, New York. Samuel Lippman was sentenced along with Jacob Abrams...
Jacob D. Little
Released
Jacob D. Little, 24, was charged September 10, 2020 with possession of a stolen firearm after stealing a Colt...
Harry Lloyd
Released
Harry Lloyd was branch secretary of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, in Seattle, Washington. He...
Pat Lyons
Released
Pat Lyons was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and char...
Herbert Mahler
Released
Herbert Mahler was secretary of the IWW General Defense Committee and treasurer of the Everett Defense Committ...
Ernesto Mangaoang
Released
Ernesto Mangaoang was a business agent and leader of ILWU Local 37, the Seattle-based Filipino cannery workers...
James H. Manning
Released
James H. Manning was a laborer from Seattle, Washington. James H. Manning was convicted at the mass IWW trial...
Laurence Manning
Released
Laurence Manning was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail a...
Walfred E. Marker
Released
Walfred E. Marker was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War...
Charles Clark Marshall III
Released
Charles Clark Marshall III, known as Chip Marshall, was an antiwar organizer and Seattle Seven defendant. He r...
John Martin
Released
John Martin was a lumberjack from Seattle, Washington. John Martin was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chic...
William Hamilton Martin
In Exile
William Hamilton Martin was a National Security Agency cryptologist who defected with his colleague Bernon Mit...
Janet McCloud
Released
Janet McCloud, born on the Tulalip Reservation and a descendant of Chief Seattle, was a Tulalip-Nisqually fish...
I. P. McDowell
Released
I. P. McDowell was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
James McInerney
James McInerney was an Irish-born logger and I.W.W. member, actively working to organize among Pacific Northwe...
Christopher McIntosh
Released
Christopher W. McIntosh pleaded guilty to setting fire to a McDonald’s restaurant near Seattle’s Space Needle...
C. D. McLennan
Released
C. D. McLennan was one of the 74 Industrial Workers of the World members held in the Snohomish County jail and...
Ed Mead
Released
Ed Mead was the principal theorist of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based militant prison-solidarity f...

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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