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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 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.
Eva Harding
Released
Eva Harding was a Topeka physician and political activist. Federal authorities arrested her on May 31, 1917 in...
Lillian Harman
Released
Lillian Harman was an American free-thought and free-love activist, the daughter of Lucifer, the Light-Bearer...
Morris Hecht
Released
Morris Hecht was from Kansas. Morris Hecht was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Pen...
Ernest Henning
Released
Ernest Henning was sentenced to three years in prison and served at Leavenworth Penitentiary beginning Decembe...
P. J. Higgins
Released
P. J. Higgins was convicted in the Kansas federal IWW prosecution. Senate Document 159 records a three-year-si...
Alf Hill Jr.
Released
Alf Hill Jr. was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in con...
Ernest Honeywell
Released
Ernest Honeywell was one of eleven CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante at...
Alexander Howat
Released
Alexander Howat was the long-time president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers who was jailed f...
Alfred Jasper
Released
Alfred Jasper was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in co...
Otis Kent
Released
Otis Kent appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft an...
Noah Leatherman
Released
Noah Leatherman was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
Jesse Lopez
Released
Jesse Lopez was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in conn...
Burt Lorton
Released
Burt Lorton was a nine-year IWW member and secretary of its Chicago Recruiting Union. Burt Lorton was convicte...
Enrique Flores Magon
Released
Enrique Flores Magon was an anarchist publisher from Mexico City, Mexico. Enrique Flores Magon was convicted o...
Paul Maihak
Released
Paul Maihak was convicted in the Kansas federal IWW prosecution and sentenced to three years on December 18, 1...
Harry McCarl
Released
Harry McCarl was from Kansas. Harry McCarl was sentenced to three years and six months. He served in Leavenwor...
Armando Miramon
Released
Armando Miramon was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in...
Joe Neil
Released
Joe Neil was an IWW member. Joe Neil was incarcerated in the insane ward of the Kansas State Penitentiary (fro...
John T. Neufeld
Released
John T. Neufeld was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas. Drafted on June 26, 1918 and sent to Camp...
Hugo Oehler
Released
Hugo Oehler was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing plan...
Carl Schnell
Released
Carl Schnell was from Kansas. Carl Schnell was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Pe...
John Schrag
Released
John Schrag was a prosperous Swiss-Mennonite farmer from Harvey County, Kansas, whose faith forbade supporting...
Amos Martin Showalter
Released
Amos Martin Showalter was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-...
Ira Tackett
Released
Ira Tackett was a member of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prosecuted after the Apr...
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