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Alabama
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 Alabama.
280Documented
5In custody
155Released
3Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Alabama
Where Alabama’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 176
1960s 36
1970s 26
2020s 11
1950s 11
1980s 4
Recent dashboard entries from Alabama
The newest published events and reporting located in Alabama, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 400 march silently to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an 'All Roads Lead to the South' voting-rights action
Protest
Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights
Prosecution
The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 federal fraud and money-laundering counts; the civil-rights group pleaded not guilty, called it a vindictive, politically motivated prosecution, and moved to dismiss the case
Prosecution
Fairhope "No Kings" costume protester Renea Gamble acquitted on all charges
Arrest
Woman in an inflatable costume arrested at the Fairhope No Kings protest
Protest
About 5,000 rally at Railroad Park for a Birmingham No Kings protest
Protest
A No Kings rally draws a crowd at the Houston County Courthouse in Dothan
Protest
Jeana Gamble arrested in a costume at an Alabama "No Kings" protest; acquitted of all charges
Documented cases
280 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Kyle Calvert
In Custody
Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Ironside AL, placed and detonated an explosive device outside the Alabam...
Tadashi Ryan Erekson
In Custody
Tadashi Ryan Erekson is a defendant in a September 2026 federal firearms investigation in Huntsville, Alabama....
Michael Kimble
In Custody
Michael Kimble is a Black gay anarchist prisoner and organizer in Alabama. Supporters describe the killing und...
Anthony Elijah Slota
In Custody
Anthony Elijah Slota is a defendant in a September 2026 federal firearms case in northern Alabama. An ATF affi...
Kenneth Shaun Traywick
In Custody
Kenneth Shaun Traywick, known as Swift Justice, is an incarcerated Alabama writer, prison abolitionist and co-...
Ralph Abernathy
Released
Ralph Abernathy was a Baptist minister, civil rights leader, and a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King J...
Lucious Amerson
Released
The first Black sheriff in Alabama since Reconstruction (Macon County/Tuskegee), indicted on charges The Black...
Charles Avery Jr.
Released
Charles Avery Jr. led fellow Hooper City High School students into the Birmingham Children's Crusade in May 19...
Celeste Belcher
Awaiting Trial
Celeste "Cici" Belcher is identified by a Huntsville support fundraiser as an 18-year-old transgender woman ja...
Charles Billups
Released
Rev. Charles Billups was a Civil Rights leader who along with 11 other pastors founded the Alabama Christian M...
Thomas Brown (Decatur, 1933)
Thomas Brown was a Black Decatur defendant arrested August 21, 1933 after Mrs. George Dugger accused him of ra...
Bert S. Brush
Released
Bert S. Brush was a conscientious objector from Alabama imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
Alice Burke
Released
Alice Burke, born Alice Phillips in Montana in 1909, was a Communist and Unemployed Council organizer in Birmi...
Lester Carter
Released
Lester Carter was a white witness detained in Scottsboro during the 1931 prosecution of nine Black youths. In...
Jesse James Clanzy
Released
Jesse James Clanzy was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inma...
Elmore Clark
Elmore Clark, also printed Elmore Clarke, was a Black teenager held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1933 prosec...
Clement C. Clay Jr.
Released
Clement C. Clay Jr. was a former U.S. senator from Alabama and Confederate agent in Canada. Clement C. Clay Jr...
Ned Cobb
Released
Ned Cobb was a Black Alabama tenant farmer who joined the Share Croppers' Union in 1931. During the December 1...
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Released
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights worker. After six days in jail, he was ki...
George Chagina Dobbins
George “Chagina” Dobbins was a former Collinsville, Alabama, police officer who became chairman of Inmates for...
Alireza Doroudi
Released
Alireza Doroudi is an Iranian PhD student in mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama who was arres...
Tommy Dotson
Released
Tommy “Yukeena” Dotson was an Alabama prisoner associated with the Atmore-Holman prison-rights struggle. Conte...
Frank Dukes
Released
The Rev. Frank Dukes was a Birmingham civil-rights organizer and Miles College student leader who helped lay t...
Edward Ellis
Released
Edward Ellis was one of the eleven Atmore-Holman Brothers — Alabama prisoners and active members of Inmates fo...
Institutions in Alabama
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Alabama that appear in the census’s case files.
Birmingham City JailBirmingham, Alabama
20 cases
Kilby PrisonMontgomery, Alabama
11 cases
Atmore State PrisonAtmore, Alabama
8 cases
Holman PrisonAtmore, Alabama
7 cases
Montgomery City JailMontgomery, Alabama
4 cases
Jefferson County Jail (Birmingham, Alabama)Birmingham, Alabama
4 cases
Montgomery County JailMontgomery, Alabama
3 cases
Etowah County JailGadsden, Alabama
1 case