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Kentucky
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 Kentucky.
219Documented
2In custody
141Released
Eras of repression in Kentucky
Where Kentucky’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 132
1970s 21
1960s 19
1950s 9
1800s 9
1980s 8
Recent dashboard entries from Kentucky
The newest published events and reporting located in Kentucky, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Taylor Marshall arrested on felony charge over Roebling Bridge anti-ICE protest
Protest
Hundreds protest after the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Lexington
Protest
An anti-ICE protest fills Noble Park in Paducah after an ICE shooting
Protest
Police arrest more than a dozen at anti-ICE Roebling Bridge march
Protest
UC students detained during Roebling Bridge ICE protest
Arrest
Student journalist Lucas Griffith arrested covering an anti-ICE march in Covington, KY (felony rioting count dropped; convicted of failure to disperse)
Protest
A rally for an ICE-detained 18-year-old outside Rep. Brett Guthrie's office
Protest
Several thousand rally at Metro Hall for a Louisville No Kings protest
Documented cases
219 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Reuben T. Durrett
Released
Reuben T. Durrett, acting editor of the Louisville Courier, was arrested by military authorities in Kentucky a...
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Willie Echols
Released
Willie Echols was a Benham miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of th...
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Tom Epps
Tom Epps, a 53-year-old Black Harlan miner, was held in Harlan jail in connection with strike-related food-sto...
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Leonard Farmer
Released
Leonard Farmer was a Harlan County, Kentucky miner accused in connection with the Christmas night 1931 shootin...
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Frank Femia
Released
Frank Femia appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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I. O. Ford
Released
I. O. Ford was a labor-movement defendant who spoke at the Cleveland defense meeting for Paul Kassay reported...
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Bill Franks
Released
Bill Franks was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
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Chester Fugate
Chester Fugate was a Kentucky tenant farmer jailed after killing his landlord, identified as Watkins, in a dis...
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G. G. Green
The April 15 Knoxville dispatch individually named these prisoners as released on bond from Pineville jail in...
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J. C. Garland
Released
J. C. Garland was the youngest Garland brother, who fled the deputies to avoid a criminal-syndicalism arrest d...
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W. M. Garland
Released
W. M. Garland was Aunt Molly Jackson's brother, jailed at Pineville with seven other miners on a criminal-synd...
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William Gibbs
William Gibbs was a Harlan County coal-strike prisoner in 1931. On September 15 he signed a statement with fiv...
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Dan Gibson
Dan Gibson was a Baptist preacher who resisted strip mining at Clear Creek in Knott County, Kentucky, in 1965....
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Mary Louise Gilbert
Released
Mary Louise Gilbert was a social worker indicted under Kentucky sedition law in the 1954 Louisville case over...
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Arthur Goldschmidt
Released
Arthur Goldschmidt was a student from San Antonio, Texas, who denied Communist, Young Communist League or Pion...
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W. W. Goodman
W. W. Goodman was a Harlan County miner who testified for the arrested National Miners Union strike organizers...
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G. Green (Middlesboro organizer, 1932)
The chronology reports actual arrest January 6, 1932 at Middlesboro during the mine-strike repression. The pri...
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Kyke Hall
Released
Kyke Hall was with unemployed miner Virgil Hutton on Christmas night 1931 as they distributed National Miners...
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Debbie Hands
Released
Debbie Hands was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist and gay-liberation collective subpoenaed...
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Morris Hansford
Released
Morris Hansford was an Evarts miner jailed in the roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the mo...
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Robert Hart
Robert Hart, a Letcher County deputy sheriff and UMWA member, entered Lynch on January 6, 1935 to serve a murd...
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Henry Henderson
Henry Henderson, a 22-year-old Harlan miner, was arrested May3, 1931 and told he faced banding and confederati...
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Henry Henderson (Harlan miner, 1931)
The August 28, 1931 Harlan report names these imprisoned miners as defendants on banding-and-confederating acc...
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Steve Hibbard
The August 28, 1931 Harlan report names these imprisoned miners as defendants on banding-and-confederating acc...
Institutions in Kentucky
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Kentucky that appear in the census’s case files.
Harlan County JailHarlan, Kentucky
18 cases
Ashland FCIDedham, Kentucky
13 cases
Bell County JailPineville, Kentucky
13 cases
FCI LexingtonLexington, Kentucky
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, AshlandAshland, Kentucky
5 cases
FCI AshlandAshland, Kentucky
3 cases
Federal Medical Center, Lexington (women's)Lexington, Kentucky
2 cases
FPC LexingtonLexington, Kentucky
2 cases