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Arkansas
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 Arkansas.
94Documented
0In custody
81Released
Eras of repression in Arkansas
Where Arkansas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 53
1930s 29
2020s 6
1950s 2
1980s 1
1970s 1
Recent dashboard entries from Arkansas
The newest published events and reporting located in Arkansas, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Charges against Arkansas governor's-mansion protester Olivia Thompson to be dropped after six months of good behavior
Protest
Little Rock Central High students walk out and march to the Arkansas Capitol over ICE
Protest
Over a dozen protest ICE outside the Little Rock Homeland Security office
Protest
Daily anti-ICE protests outside Little Rock's DHS deportation hub
Protest
Thousands line the Broadway Bridge for the Little Rock No Kings protest
Protest
Thousands rally on Dickson Street for a Fayetteville No Kings protest
Arrest
A counter-protester was arrested for disorderly conduct at the "No Kings" rally in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Documented cases
94 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Alfred Banks Jr.
Released
Alfred Banks Jr. was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Ware" defendants — Black sharecroppers se...
Daisy Bates
Released
Daisy Bates was the president of the Arkansas NAACP and a mentor to the Little Rock Nine. After city officials...
Dave Benson
Released
Dave Benson was a Workers Alliance organizer who supported the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union during the June...
Ocier S. Bratton
Released
Ocier S. Bratton was involved in arranging legal representation for Black sharecroppers seeking fair payment f...
A. B. Brookins
Released
A. B. Brookins was a Black preacher, organizer, chaplain and song leader of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union...
Ed Coleman
Released
Ed Coleman was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentenc...
J. M. Danley
Released
J. M. Danley was a farmer, a self-described "good Christian, " a member of the Working Class Union and a fifte...
Aline Espinosa-Villegas
Released
Aline "Ángel" Espinosa-Villegas is a trans woman federally prosecuted for arson committed during the George Fl...
Joe Fox
Released
Joe Fox was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Ware" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentenced t...
Albert Giles
Released
Albert Giles was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Ware" defendants — Black sharecroppers senten...
Renea Goddard
Released
Renea Goddard is one of the four Little Rock, Arkansas defendants — alongside Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Cody N...
Paul Hall
Released
Paul Hall was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentence...
Ed Hicks
Released
Ed Hicks was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentenced...
Frank Hicks
Released
Frank Hicks was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers senten...
Paul Jacob
Released
Libertarian activist who at a Jan. 5, 1981 Little Rock post-office demonstration publicly told reporters he ha...
Dawn Jeffrey
Released
Dawn Jeffrey is a community activist from Central Arkansas. She is the founder of the Little Rock Freedom Fund...
Josephine Johnson
Released
Josephine Winslow Johnson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who reported on the Southern Tenant Farmers' U...
Joseph John “Joe” Jones
Released
Joseph John “Joe” Jones was a St. Louis painter and social realist whose work depicted labor and rural poverty...
Howard Kester
Howard Kester was an organizer and editor of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union’s Sharecroppers Voice. H.L.Mitc...
J. E. Knox
Released
J. E. Knox was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentenc...
Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho
Released
Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho is a Little Rock, Arkansas defendant in the federal prosecution of the 2020 Little Ro...
John Martin
Released
John Martin was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Ware" defendants — Black sharecroppers sentenc...
Frank Moore
Released
Frank Moore was one of the "Elaine Twelve," and one of the six "Moore" defendants — Black sharecroppers senten...
Ward H. Rodgers
Released
Ward H. Rodgers was a Methodist minister, teacher and Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union organizer. He was arreste...
Institutions in Arkansas
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Arkansas that appear in the census’s case files.
Arkansas State Penitentiary
47 cases
Tucker Farm Penitentiary
2 cases
Sebastian County JailFort Smith, Arkansas
1 case
Cummins Unit
1 case