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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 Indiana.
150Documented
5In custody
113Released
Eras of repression in Indiana
Where Indiana’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 51
1930s 35
1960s 16
1800s 9
2000s 7
1990s 7
Recent dashboard entries from Indiana
The newest published events and reporting located in Indiana, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Judge quashes subpoena seeking reporter Mike Emery’s testimony about an Indiana warehouse fire
Arrest
Sheriff’s deputy handcuffs protester during emotional IMPD hearing
Protest
Over 100 rally outside the Indianapolis ICE office against increased immigration enforcement
Protest
More than 50 join an Indianapolis hotel noise protest; organizers believed ICE agents were staying there
Protest
Hundreds rally at Holland Park in support of immigrants and against a nearby mass-deportation event
Other
Salah Sarsour released from ICE detention following federal court ruling
Arrest
Hobart data center meeting draws large crowd, one arrest
Arrest
Man removed and arrested at Indiana data center meeting
Documented cases
150 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
John C Cole Jr.
In Custody
John C. Cole Jr., aka Balagoon, has been locked up in the corrupt Indiana Department of Corrections since the...
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
In Custody
Khalfani Malik Khaldun, legally Leonard B. McQuay and formerly listed as Khalfani X. Khaldun, is a New Afrikan...
Kwame Shakur
In Custody
Kwame Beans Shakur is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective and National Direct...
Shaka Shakur
In Custody
Shaka Adiyia Shakur is a New Afrikan political prisoner held under Indiana Department of Correction number 199...
Christopher Trotter
In Custody
Christopher Trotter had three months left in his sentence for petty theft when he saw a fellow inmate getting...
Frank Ambrose
Released
Frank Ambrose was an Earth Liberation Front activist and the then-husband of fellow ELF organizer Marius Mason...
Zolo Azania
Released
Zolo Azania is a former Black Panther convicted of a 1981 bank robbery that left a Gary, Indiana cop dead. He...
Leon Benson
Released
Leon Benson is a musician and prisoner-rights organizer who was wrongfully imprisoned in Indiana for the murde...
William A. Bowles
Released
William A. Bowles was an Indiana physician and a leader of the Sons of Liberty, an antiwar secret society. Arr...
Eugene Debs
Released
Eugene Debs was the foremost American socialist of his era — locomotive fireman, founder of the American Railw...
Luther Donnell
Released
Luther Donnell was a Decatur County, Indiana abolitionist who in 1847 helped a woman named Caroline and her ch...
José Felan
Released
José Felan was a Black Lives Matter protestor who was arrested on May 28th, 2020 in relation to fires set duri...
Waldo Frank
Released
Waldo Frank was an American novelist and essayist and the first chairman of the League of American Writers. He...
Earl I. Garber
Released
Earl I. Garber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
Maggie Gates
Released
Maggie Gates is an activist from Indiana who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Traini...
John T. Gojack
Released
John T. Gojack was a vice-president of the United Electrical Workers and head of its District 9. He was prosec...
Stephen Horsey
Released
Stephen Horsey was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis with Lambdin...
Andrew Humphreys
Released
Andrew Humphreys was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis in the Son...
Nathalie Rose Jones
Released
Nathalie Rose Jones was arrested after participating in a Washington, D.C. protest on August 16, 2025 and accu...
T. Luesse
Released
Theodore Luesse, later known as Jim Moore, organized unemployed workers in Indianapolis during the Great Depre...
Daniel McGowan
Released
Daniel Gerard McGowan is an American environmental activist previously affiliated with the Earth Liberation Fr...
Jo Ann Mulert
Released
One of the eight Beaver 55 defendants prosecuted for the Oct 31, 1969 raid on the Indianapolis Selective Servi...
Lambdin P. Milligan
Released
Lambdin P. Milligan was an Indiana lawyer and Copperhead Democrat who in October 1864 was arrested by Union mi...
William Dudley Pelley
Released
William Dudley Pelley was a writer and former Hollywood screenwriter who founded the fascist Silver Legion of...
Institutions in Indiana
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Indiana that appear in the census’s case files.
Communications Management UnitAlbany, Indiana
6 cases
United States Penitentiary, Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
4 cases
USP Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
3 cases
Terre Haute JailTerre Haute, Indiana
3 cases
FCI Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
2 cases
Indiana State PrisonMichigan City, Indiana
2 cases
Pendleton Correctional FacilityPendleton, Indiana
1 case
Miami Correctional FacilityBunker Hill, Indiana
1 case