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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.
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Gordon Brown
Released
Gordon Brown appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
R
Richard Dean Bucklin
Released
Richard Dean Bucklin was a U.S. Army war resister who left his unit in Germany and lived in Sweden before retu...
F
Frank Burke
Released
Frank Burke was a Socialist conscientious objector from Chicago who was court-martialed after the armistice en...
J
Jack Caffray
Released
Jack Caffray was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita. He went insane in Shawnee County (Kansas) Jail....
J
John Carr
Released
John Carr appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of conscien...
E
Ed Cassell
Ed Cassell was a union member and strike leader in the Treece, Kansas, mining community. In DeWitt Gilpin’s re...
C
Chatto
Chatto was the leading member of an Apache delegation sent to Washington in 1886 during negotiations over the...
A
Alex Cherly
Alex Cherly is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leav...
D
David Clark
Released
David Clark appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
H
H. D. Cohn
H. D. Cohn is named as a prisoner associate editor of the Wire City Weekly, produced by inmates of Fort Leaven...
R
Raymond Crane
Released
Raymond Crane was a conscientious resister imprisoned in United States military custody during the 1960s.
M
Matt Cushing
Released
Matt Cushing was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing pla...
H
Harry Daile
Released
Harry Daile was imprisoned his sentence at Leavenworth Penitentiary under an Espionage/Sedition Act-era prosec...
W
William Danton
Industrial Pioneer reports William Danton arrested in Rice County, Kansas on July 1, 1920 under the criminal s...
H
High Delaney
Industrial Pioneer reports High Delaney arrested in Florence, Kansas on March 5 among about twenty men. Most w...
I
Isaac T. Dirks
Released
Isaac T. Dirks was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
A
August Dorchy
August Dorchy was a Kansas miners’ union official or committee member named among five men freed by Judge Dani...
J
John P. Dunn
Released
John P. Dunn appears in two early1968 CCCO rosters of imprisoned draft and military conscientious resisters at...
R
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco
Released
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco was a Puerto Rican Nationalist organizer and commander of the Cadets of the Republic. Bo...
E
E. B. Eastwood
Released
E. B. Eastwood was arrested in the 1928 Kansas City, Kansas raids on workers' meetings at the Armour packing p...
J
Jesse Lee Evans
Released
Jesse Lee Evans was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in...
J
James Fagnoni
Released
James Fagnoni appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
D
Duane Ferre
Released
Duane Ferre appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of consci...
H
Harold Fiske
Released
Harold Fiske was a young IWW organizer recruiting farm workers in Kansas. Harold Fiske was arrested in 1923 an...
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