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Mississippi
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 Mississippi.
413Documented
1In custody
388Released
Eras of repression in Mississippi
Where Mississippi’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 369
1930s 18
1970s 10
1950s 4
1910s 4
2010s 2
Recent dashboard entries from Mississippi
The newest published events and reporting located in Mississippi, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Thousands rally at the Old Capitol against redistricting and for voting rights
Protest
Marshall County residents rally against a proposed ICE detention facility
Protest
About 1,500 surround the Mississippi Capitol for a No Kings protest
Protest
No Kings rally at the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando
Protest
A coalition rallies against Elon Musk's xAI gas turbines near Memphis
Other
Mississippi newspaper ordered to remove op-ed critical of city officials
Documented cases
413 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Kid Boy Jackson
Known in the source as Kid Boy Jackson, this Mississippi sharecropper was held in Magnolia jail after a deadly...
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Levi Jackson
Released
Levi Jackson participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.
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Richard Jewett
Released
Richard Jewett participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
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Robert Edward Johnson
Released
Robert Edward Johnson was a Black civil-rights organizer in Grenada, Mississippi, and a conscientious objector...
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Johnny Jones
Page 2 names Johnny Jones among three Black Memphis defendants condemned at Hernando. The February 13 dispatch...
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Martha Jones
Released
Martha Jones participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
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Robert Jones (Mississippi farm laborer)
Robert Jones was a Black farm laborer in official custody before a lynching at Michigan City, Mississippi on A...
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Peg Lockett
Peg Lockett was a Black Mississippi prisoner lynched while being transferred from De Kalb to Scooba for a hear...
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Joe Love
Joe Love was one of two Black men lynched near Clarksdale, Mississippi on June 9, 1934. The June 20 Daily Work...
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Chokwe Lumumba
Front Line reports that human-rights lawyer Chokwe Lumumba served three days in jail for contempt while challe...
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Spade de Mau Mau
Released
Spade de Mau Mau was identified by RNA president Imari Obadele as one of the people arrested with him at the o...
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Ernest McGhee
Page 2 names Ernest McGhee among three Black Memphis defendants condemned at Hernando. The February 13 dispatc...
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Patricia Meyers
Released
Patricia Meyers participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
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Clinton Montgomery
Released
Clinton Montgomery was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
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Karim Njabafudi
Released
Karim Hekima Oman Wadu Njabafudi — born Larry Jackson in New Orleans, also recorded as Karim and "Brother Blac...
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Tawwab Nkrumah
Released
Tawwab Nkrumah was identified by RNA president Imari Obadele as one of the people arrested with him at the org...
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Sylvester Lee Palmer
Released
Sylvester Lee Palmer participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
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Annie James Rankin
Released
Annie James Rankin was a Mississippi voting-rights and anti-poverty organizer. She participated in the 1968 Po...
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George Robinson (Raymond, Mississippi)
George Robinson was a Black man held for purported safekeeping in the county jail at Raymond, Mississippi. The...
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Aisha Salim
Released
Born Brenda Blount. Served as RNA Minister of Information at the time of the August 18, 1971 raid. One of thre...
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Henry Shields
Released
Henry Shields was one of three Black Mississippi sharecroppers tortured into confessing to the murder of Raymo...
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Isaac Thomas
Isaac Thomas was one of two Black men lynched near Clarksdale, Mississippi on June 9, 1934. The June 20 Daily...
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Widijonaiko Tjokroadisunatto
Released
Widijonaiko Tjokroadisunatto was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 29, 1961, for participating in a Fr...
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William Veal
Released
William Veal participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
Institutions in Mississippi
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Mississippi that appear in the census’s case files.
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman)
11 cases
Mississippi state and federal courtsJackson, Mississippi
10 cases
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm)Sunflower County, Mississippi
5 cases
Montgomery County Jail (Winona, MS)Winona, Mississippi
4 cases
Hinds County Jail / Laurel CourthouseLaurel, Mississippi
1 case
Pike County Jail / Magnolia (McComb, MS)Magnolia, Mississippi
1 case
Hinds County Jail (Jackson, MS)Jackson, Mississippi
1 case
Mississippi State Penitentiary at ParchmanParchman, Mississippi
1 case