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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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John Flage
John Flage is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leave...
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Jack Fleming
Jack Fleming was a Kansas miners’ union official or committee member named among five men freed by Judge Danie...
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Tom Foley
Industrial Pioneer reports Tom Foley arrested in Florence, Kansas on March 5 among about twenty men. Most were...
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Abraham Goertz
Released
Abraham Goertz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Thomas Goggin
Released
Thomas Goggin appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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Richard Guy
Released
Richard Guy appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Milton Haworth
Released
Milton Haworth was a conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Helen Hester
Helen Hester was the county organizer of the American Workers Union and a former relief case worker in Kansas...
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David O. Hiebert
Released
David O. Hiebert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Peter Hiebert
Released
Peter Hiebert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
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Ross Michael Holwach
Ross Michael Holwach is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at...
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Jack Jarvis
Jack Jarvis is named among IWW prisoners placed in the Leavenworth black hole on April 14, 1919 in Charles Pla...
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David Joff
David Joff is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leave...
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Peter Johnson
Released
Peter Johnson was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
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Steve Johnson
Released
Steve Johnson was a constable of Treece. A contemporary Daily Worker account of February 25, 1936 names him am...
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George Kalert
GeorgeKalert, printed Geo.Kalert, was arrested upon arrival in Hutchinson while collecting Communist ballot si...
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Verne Lester Kessler
Released
Verne Lester Kessler was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World W...
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Allan Killfoile
Released
Allan Killfoile appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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Ed Kissel
Released
Ed Kissel was a justice of the peace in Lyon Township and president of Local 111 of the Mine, Mill and Smelter...
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George Kleihege
Released
George Kleihege was a University of Kansas professor and socialist. Federal authorities arrested him on May 31...
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Thomas Kostes
Released
Thomas Kostes appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of cons...
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Jacob Lalek
Jacob Lalek is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leav...
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Melvin J. Lindsay
Released
Melvin J. Lindsay appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of...
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Ronald Lockman
Released
Ronald Lockman was an African American soldier from Philadelphia who publicly refused orders to deploy to Viet...
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