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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.
James Emerson Dennis
Released
James Emerson Dennis was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom...
Alfonso Denson Jr.
Released
Alfonso Denson Jr., an eighteen-year-old Jim Hill High School student, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, o...
Dion Tyrone Diamond
Released
Dion Tyrone Diamond was a Howard University student, Freedom Rider and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committ...
John Luther Dolan
Released
John Luther Dolan was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 25, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rid...
Grady H. Donald
Released
Grady H. Donald, a minister, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961, for participating in the F...
Albert L. Dunn
Released
Albert L. Dunn was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides a...
Geraldine Edwards
Released
Geraldine Edwards was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 27, 1961, for the Tougaloo Nine read-in at th...
Marilyn Irene Eisenberg
Released
Marilyn Irene Eisenberg was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 15, 1961, for participating in the Freed...
James Walker Evans
Released
James Walker Evans was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1961, as one of fifteen Episcopal cl...
John M. Evans
Released
John M. Evans was one of the fifteen Episcopal clergymen arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 19...
Medgar Evers
Released
Medgar Evers was the NAACP field secretary for Mississippi and the state's foremost civil-rights organizer. In...
David Brokaw Fankhauser
Released
David Brokaw Fankhauser was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...
James Farmer
Released
James Farmer was the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality and the principal organizer of the 1...
Miriam Feingold
Released
Miriam Feingold was a 20-year-old Swarthmore College student from Brooklyn who rode as a Freedom Rider in 1961...
Robert Earl Filner
Released
Robert Earl Filner, born in Pittsburgh and later a member of Congress and mayor of San Diego, was arrested in...
Ralph Floyd
Released
Ralph Floyd was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 4, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent sit-in at...
Mary Freelon
Released
Mary Freelon was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1961, for participating in the Freedom Rides an...
Judith Ann Frieze
Released
Judith Ann Frieze was a Smith College student and NAACP member from Boston, born about 1939 and joined a Montg...
Winston Fuller
Released
Winston Fuller was a UCLA graduate student, born about 1937 and joined the July 30, 1961 Illinois Central trai...
John Goodrich Gager Jr.
Released
John Goodrich Gager Jr. was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 7, 1961, for participating in the Freedo...
Glenda Jean Gaither
Released
Glenda Jean Gaither was an eighteen-year-old Claflin College student arrested after arriving by train in Jacks...
Donna Sage Garde
Released
Donna Sage Garde was born about 1935 and traveled from Nashville with three other Freedom Riders and was arres...
Maxie Jewel Gardner
Released
Maxie Jewel Gardner was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 22, 1961, for participating in a nonviolent...
Francis L. Geddes
Released
Francis L. Geddes was a San Francisco minister and was arrested with eight other airport Freedom Riders at the...
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