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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

Documented cases

169 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Jacob Tori
Released
Jacob Tori was an IWW delegate and organizer from San Francisco, California. Jacob Tori was indicted by the De...
Edwin C. Walker
Released
Edwin C. Walker was an American individualist-anarchist and free-thought writer, an associate editor of Lucife...
John Wallberg
Released
John Wallberg was from Kansas. John Wallberg was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and served...
Otto Wangerin
Released
Otto Wangerin was a railroad machinist and left-wing Socialist — later a charter member of the Communist Party...
William Webb
Released
William Webb was a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union member prosecuted after the April 11, 1937 shooting at...
Gerald B. Winrod
Released
Gerald Burton Winrod was a Wichita evangelist and publisher who founded the Defenders of the Christian Faith a...
T
Thomas Shotkin
Thomas Shotkin was a conscientious objector physically confined at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard Hous...
J
Joseph Brandon
Joseph Brandon was a conscientious objector physically confined at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard Hous...
E
Erny Davies
Erny Davies was individually identified by Ken Rippetoe’s signed first-person account as physically confined i...
A
Arnold Austad
Released
Arnold Austad appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
J
James Avila
Released
James Avila appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
J
John Babbitt
John Babbitt, thirty-six, was secretary of the Fort Scott Farmer-Labor Union. The January 18 report says polic...
L
Leopold B. Balner
Leopold B. Balner is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at For...
B
Benjamin Baltzer
Released
Benjamin Baltzer was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Co...
J
Jacob H. Barkman
Released
Jacob H. Barkman was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
E
Ezra E. Barnhart
Released
Ezra E. Barnhart was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
D
Douglas Bash
Released
Douglas Bash appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of consc...
V
Victor Bell
Released
Victor Bell appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
R
Robert Bender
Released
Robert Bender appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
C
C. E. Berquist
Released
C. E. Berquist was an IWW member. C. E. Berquist served a prison sentence for violating Kansas criminal syndic...
I
I. T. Boutell
Released
I. T. Boutell was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecution...
M
Michael Brachter
Released
Michael Brachter appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of c...
H
Harry Breen
Released
Harry Breen was arrested during a union drive in Wakeeney, Kansas, on July 9, 1920. He received a thirty-year...
D
David W. Brown
Released
David W. Brown was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resis...

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