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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.
83Documented
1In custody
80Released
Eras of repression in Kansas
Where Kansas’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 59
1970s 7
1930s 6
1920s 5
1800s 3
2020s 1
Documented cases
83 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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John Jacob Plenert
Released
John Jacob Plenert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Carl A. Schmidt
Released
Carl A. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
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Daniel J. Schmidt
Released
Daniel J. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martiale...
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Stephen Shuren
Released
Stephen Shuren was arrested in Kansas and scheduled to be tried in the mass IWW trial in Wichita. While awaiti...
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Ira Tackett
Released
Ira Tackett was one of ten CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attack on...
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Cornelius Voth
Released
Cornelius Voth was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas who was drafted on August 5, 1918, and sent...
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Otto Wangerin
Released
Otto H. Wangerin was a railroad machinist and left-wing Socialist — later a charter member of the Communist Pa...
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William Webb
Released
William Webb was one of ten CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attack on...
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William Weyh
Released
William Weyh, an IWW leader, was convicted of seditious conspiracy at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced...
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George P. Yarlott
Released
George P. Yarlott, from Kansas, was sentenced to two years and ten months in prison and served in Leavenworth...
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Juan Álamo Díaz
Juan Álamo Díaz was a Puerto Rican independence supporter imprisoned at Leavenworth. Executive Order 7731 iden...
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
569 cases
United States Penitentiary, LeavenworthLeavenworth, Kansas
163 cases
Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary BarracksFort Leavenworth, Kansas
45 cases
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison
9 cases
Kansas State PenitentiaryLansing, Kansas
2 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