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Kansas
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 Kansas.
169Documented
2In custody
127Released
Eras of repression in Kansas
Where Kansas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 88
1960s 35
1930s 13
1920s 13
1970s 8
1800s 4
Recent dashboard entries from Kansas
The newest published events and reporting located in Kansas, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Emporia drops municipal charges against Lux Claridge after data-center meeting arrest
Arrest
Emporia police arrest teacher Lux Claridge after applause for opponents of the Flint Hills Digital Campus
Protest
Nurses at Research Medical Center to hold rally demanding immediate action on unsafe patient care conditions
Protest
About 280 occupy the four corners of 9th and Main in Winfield for 'No Kings'
Protest
A community march for trans rights against the SB 244 bathroom bill in Lawrence
Protest
Hundreds rally on Mass Street after ICE detentions of five Lawrence residents
Protest
Hundreds condemn ICE in a rally at the Kansas Statehouse
Other
Kansas journalist hit with search warrant after photographing police range
Documented cases
169 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Terry Lynn Nichols
In Custody
Terry Lynn Nichols was convicted for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing and is serving life imprisonment. T...
Henry Parker
In Custody
Henry Parker, 30, of Wichita, KS was sentenced to 25 years in prison for firing multiple gunshots at police of...
Edward Anderson
Released
Edward Anderson was originally sentenced to two years in prison. He served at Leavenworth Penitentiary from Ja...
Giovanni Baldazzi
Released
Giovanni Baldazzi was sentenced to ten years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from August 30,...
George Bankhead
Released
George Bankhead was a member of the CIO-affiliated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prose...
Albert Barr
Released
Albert Barr was from Kansas. Albert Barr was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penit...
Maurice Becker
Released
Maurice Becker was a radical artist for The Masses who, as a World War I conscientious objector, was court-mar...
Odell Bennett
Released
Odell Bennett was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in co...
A. M. Blumberg
Released
A. M. Blumberg was from Kansas. A. M. Blumberg was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and sentenced to...
G. W. Bouldin
Released
G. W. Bouldin was given a prison sentence of two years, which was commuted to a year and a day. He served in L...
E. M. Boyd
Released
E. M. Boyd was from Kansas. E. M. Boyd was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Peniten...
Spencer Kellogg Brown
Released
Spencer Kellogg Brown was raised in the free-state struggle in Kansas. Spencer Kellogg Brown served the Union...
Lux Claridge
Lux Claridge is an Emporia high-school physics teacher who opposed a proposed data center. Police arrested the...
Lyda Conley
Released
Lyda Conley was a Wyandot lawyer — the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar — who fought for decades to stop...
Harry Drew
Released
Harry Drew was from Kansas. Harry Drew was sentenced to four years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Peniten...
Godfrey Ebel
Released
Godfrey Ebel was a laborer and an IWW member from San Francisco, California. Godfrey Ebel was convicted at the...
G. A. Fanning
Released
G. A. Fanning was sentenced to a year and six months in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from Mar...
Jacob Frohwerk
Released
Jacob Frohwerk was a Kansas City newspaperman prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a series of artic...
Linn A. E. Gale
Released
Linn A. E. Gale was sentenced to seven years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Gale published...
Elmer J. Garner
Released
Elmer J. Garner was a Wichita editor and publisher of Publicity, a far-right newspaper. He was among the oldes...
Isaac Gilberg
Released
Isaac Gilberg was a Topeka tailor and socialist. Federal authorities arrested him on May 31, 1917 in the prose...
Fred Grau
Released
Fred Grau was from Kansas. Fred Grau was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitent...
J. Gresbach
Released
J. Gresbach was from Kansas. J. Gresbach was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He served in Leave...
Joyce Guerrero
Released
Joyce Guerrero was a 27-year-old Potawatomi woman and mother of two who, The Black Panther reported (September...
Institutions in Kansas
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Kansas that appear in the census’s case files.
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort LeavenworthFort Leavenworth, Kansas
579 cases
United States Penitentiary, LeavenworthLeavenworth, Kansas
174 cases
Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary BarracksFort Leavenworth, Kansas
38 cases
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison
9 cases
Kansas State PenitentiaryLansing, Kansas
3 cases
Kansas City RRMKansas City, Kansas
1 case
Harvey County JailNewton, Kansas
1 case
Sedgwick County District Court / Kansas Department of CorrectionsWichita, Kansas
1 case