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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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Richard H. Stanton
Released
Richard H. Stanton of Maysville, Kentucky was arrested on October 2, 1861 by order of General William Nelson,...
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Edward Stevenson
Released
Edward Stevenson was a minister in Russellville, Kentucky. On June 30, 1862, federal authorities arrested him...
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Roy Storms
Roy Storms was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injuncti...
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Mac Sumner
Mac Sumner was an active National Miners Union member reported abducted from his home on December 3, 1931 by t...
C
Chip Tallon
Released
Chip Tallon was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
A
Allan Taub
The March chronology dates Taub’s obstructing-justice arrest January 6, 1932. The January 15 issue describes s...
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Thomas J. Taylor
Released
Thomas J. Taylor was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...
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Pless Thomas
Released
Pless Thomas was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner prosecuted after the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts. He wa...
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Harry Thornton
Portelli identifies Harry Thornton as a Black Harlan miner jailed for drunkenness after attending National Min...
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Hannah Toliver
Released
Hannah Toliver was a free Black woman arrested in 1864 for violating Kentucky's law against "enticing a slave,...
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Kevin Towle
Released
Kevin Towle was a Vietnam-era draft resister associated with Monadnock Meeting. He was imprisoned for refusing...
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Bill Turpin
Released
Bill Turpin was a union miner prosecuted for first-degree murder after the May5,1931 Battle of Evarts in Harla...
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Lee Valentine
Lee Valentine was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injun...
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G. Vaughan
G. Vaughan appears among the Kentucky miners on the September 1934 ILD prisoner roster. It places him at Kentu...
A
Andy Vaughn
Released
Andy Vaughn was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the...
J
Jessie Wakefield
Released
Jessie London Wakefield was an International Labor Defense field representative who organized legal defense an...
A
Adelaide Walker
Adelaide Walker was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser commit...
C
Charles M. Walker
Released
Charles M. Walker was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I...
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Jeffrey Whittier
Released
Jeffrey Whittier was imprisoned at Ashland as a conscientious or antiwar resister during the 1960s.
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Carl Williams
Released
Carl Williams was an Evarts miner jailed in the Harlan roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of t...
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Henry Williams (Kentucky relief worker)
Henry Williams is named among four Central Relief Committee members tried at Pineville for robbery after recov...
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Bige Wilson
Bige Wilson, a local strike leader, was released after the witness declined to testify at his criminal-syndica...
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Michael Wittels
Released
Michael Wittels was a Philadelphia artist and Army reservist imprisoned at Fort Knox for conscientiously refus...
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Rich Wolf
Rich Wolf is named among four Central Relief Committee members tried at Pineville for robbery after recovering...
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