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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 M. Respess
Released
Herman M. Respess appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of...
M
Michael J. Riney
Released
Michael J. Riney appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
J
Joseph Rittenour
Released
Joseph Rittenour appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of d...
M
Max Salzman
Max Salzman, a Communist organizer, was kidnapped and beaten in Kansas according to Gilpin’s August 1936 discu...
C
Carl A. Schmidt
Released
Carl A. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
D
Daniel J. Schmidt
Released
Daniel J. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martiale...
S
Schmieder (Leavenworth prisoner, 1919)
Schmieder is identified by surname in H. Austin Simons's first-person Fort Leavenworth account as a fellow pri...
B
Butch Scott
Released
Butch Scott appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
S
Stephen Shuren
Released
Stephen Shuren was arrested in Kansas and scheduled to be tried in the mass IWW trial in Wichita. While awaiti...
J
James Signon
Released
James Signon was imprisoned in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth as a conscientious resister durin...
T
Tom Sincavitch
Released
Tom Sincavitch appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
K
Kenneth Stolte Jr.
Released
Kenneth Stolte Jr. appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of...
D
Donald Tiedmann
Released
Donald Tiedmann was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resi...
W
Willard Titus
Willard Titus was a Kansas miners’ union official or committee member named among five men freed by Judge Dani...
K
Kusma Tkachuk
Kusma Tkachuk is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Le...
A
Alex Urosky
Alex Urosky is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leav...
J
Joseph Volsky
Joseph Volsky is listed as a political prisoner confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Le...
C
Cornelius Voth
Released
Cornelius Voth was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas who was drafted on August 5, 1918, and sent...
W
William Weyh
Released
William Weyh was an IWW leader. William Weyh was convicted of seditious conspiracy at the mass IWW trial in Ch...
J
James Williford
Released
James Williford appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...
M
Mark Wilson
Released
Mark Wilson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
G
George Yager
George Yager is identified as a conscientious objector imprisoned at Leavenworth in Charles Plahn’s signed Dec...
G
George P. Yarlott
Released
George P. Yarlott was from Kansas. George P. Yarlott was sentenced to two years and ten months in prison and s...
F
Frank Zamatowitz
Frank Zamatowitz 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