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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.
H
Herman Loewen
Released
Herman Loewen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
S
Stanley A. Marshall
Stanley A. Marshall is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at F...
J
Jacob N. Martens
Released
Jacob N. Martens was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Co...
W
Wes Mattern
Released
Wes Mattern appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
H
H. Earl Maxwell
H. Earl Maxwell was a Kansas miners’ union official or committee member named among five men freed by Judge Da...
S
Sam Mazur
Sam Mazur is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leaven...
J
James McElwrath
James McElwrath was a Kansas miners’ union official or committee member named among five men freed by Judge Da...
R
Robert Michener
Released
Robert Michener was a nineteen-year-old Quaker and Drake University student sentenced to ten years in federal...
C
Chris E. Miller
Released
Chris E. Miller was a Kansas Mennonite conscientious objector assigned to Camp MacArthur, Texas, during World...
E
Ernest Hartzler Miller
Released
Ernest Hartzler Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court...
J
John Y. Miller
Released
John Y. Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
M
Marshall Miller
Released
Marshall Miller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of co...
A
Abraham F. Neufeld
Released
Abraham F. Neufeld was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
E
Ernest Newman
Released
Ernest Newman was a Topeka carpenter. Federal authorities arrested him on May 31, 1917 in the prosecution over...
S
Sedor Okilko
Sedor Okilko is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Lea...
P
Peter W. Pankratz
Released
Peter W. Pankratz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
F
Frank Payne (Kansas draft-registration defendant)
The Kansas account explicitly reports arrest before his October1917 indictment, release on personal bond and r...
P
Paul Perrier
Released
Paul Perrier was identified in contemporary lists of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resistanc...
P
Pietro Pieri
Pietro Pieri was an Italian Industrial Workers of the World prisoner identified by a contemporary Italian sail...
J
John Jacob Plenert
Released
John Jacob Plenert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
X
Xeny Pollack
Xeny Pollack is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Lea...
S
Stanley Quast
Released
Stanley Quast appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 military-prison lists of cons...
F
Frank E. Rayer
Frank E. Rayer is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort L...
S
Stephen Reckhoff
Stephen Reckhoff is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort...
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