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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.
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L. M. Mills
Released
L. M. Mills was an organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union at Tyronza, Arkansas. In early 1935 he was...
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Ed Mitchell
Released
Ed Mitchell was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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James Moore
Released
James Moore was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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Cody Nowlin
Released
Cody Nowlin is one of the four Little Rock, Arkansas defendants — alongside Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho, Renea Go...
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Emily Nowlin
Released
Emily Nowlin, 27, of Little Rock AR, was indicted December 14, 2020 in the Jeffrey et al. case for August 2020...
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D. Paine
Released
D. Paine was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in...
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Bob Reed
Bob Reed was a student at Commonwealth College. A February 6 dispatch in the Daily Worker of February 7, 1935,...
D
Dave Reed
Released
Dave Reed was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in...
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Ward Rogers
Ward Rogers was a preacher serving with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Jamieson reports that he was arrest...
D
Dan Rollins
Released
Dan Rollins was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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T. F. Schultz
Released
T. F. Schultz was a white relief worker jailed at Marked Tree, Arkansas in the 1935 raids on the Southern Tena...
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G. H. Smith (STFU organizer)
H. L. Mitchells union history names minister G. H. Smith as Ward Rodgerss companion in organizing a Southern T...
J
Jim Smith
Released
Jim Smith was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in...
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Warren E. Sumlin, Sr.
Released
Bay Area Black man on death row at Cummins prison in Arkansas for a first-degree murder he said he did not com...
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Will Steward
Released
Will Steward was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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I. W. Swats
Released
I. W. Swats was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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Albert Duane Swift
Released
Albert Duane Swift was a conscientious objector from Arkansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
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John Thomas
Released
John Thomas was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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Frank Tucker
Frank Tucker was a twenty-four-year-old Black man lynched in Crossett,Arkansas after a mob seized him from jai...
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Walter Ward
Released
Walter Ward was one of the Black sharecroppers imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919...
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Frank Weems
Released
Frank Weems, a Black Southern Tenant Farmers Union leader at Earle, Arkansas, survived an armed mob attack in...
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Sam Wilson
Released
Sam Wilson was one of the Black defendants imprisoned after the Elaine massacre of September–October 1919 in P...
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