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Missouri
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 Missouri.
65Documented
3In custody
59Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Missouri
Where Missouri’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 17
2010s 16
2020s 8
1950s 6
1930s 5
1980s 4
Documented cases
65 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Joshua Williams
Released
Joshua Williams became known as a young organizer and participant in protests following the 2014 police killin...
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Khalid Al-Sudanee
Released
Khalid Al-Sudanee allegedly assisted the now-defunct Islamic American Relief Agency in moving money.
Case cha...
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Gabriella (Ella) Antolini
Released
Gabriella (Ella) Antolini, an eighteen-year-old anarchist and Italian immigrant residing in New England, was c...
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Michael J. Avery
Released
On May 25-29, 2020 Michael J. Avery, 28, was charged with rioting after posting calls to action on Facebook un...
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Brandon Orlando Baldwin
Released
Brandon Orlando Baldwin, 22, NBPP leader; with co-defendant Olajuwon Davis, conspired during the November 2014...
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Edward Brand
Released
Edward Brand was a conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Thomas Cornell
Released
Thomas Cornell, a Socialist from St. Louis, Missouri, began serving a two-year prison sentence on October 31,...
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Jonathan Cowden
Released
Jonathan Cowden participated in Anonymous online actions supporting Palestinians. He served federal prison tim...
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Wayne Cryts
Released
Wayne Cryts was a southeast-Missouri soybean farmer who became a national symbol of the early-1980s farm crisi...
J
John A. Cummings
Released
Father John A. Cummings was a Missouri Catholic priest prosecuted for continuing to preach without taking the...
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Olajuwon Davis
Released
Olajuwon Davis, 22, NBPP leader; co-defendant of Brandon Baldwin in the November 2014 Ferguson explosive-devic...
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William P. Elmer
Released
William P. Elmer, from Dent County, Missouri, was sentenced to five years in prison for writing a newspaper ar...
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Nicholas Ryan Entwistle
Released
Nicholas Ryan Entwistle, age 19, of Kansas City, was one of the Asheville 11 indicted for the May 1, 2010 May...
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Gustav Erdtmann
Released
Gustav Erdtmann, of St. Louis, Missouri, began serving a prison sentence on June 27, 1918.
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Frank A. Feldman
Released
Frank A. Feldman appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecution...
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Allen Flory
Released
Allen Flory was president of Cleaning & Dye House Workers' Union Local 20 in St. Louis, arrested with Matthew...
D
Dorothy Forest
Released
Dorothy Forest was a Communist Party defendant indicted in St. Louis in 1953 under the Smith Act. The Smith Ac...
C
Carl Glesser
Released
Carl Glesser, a newspaper editor from Kansas City, Missouri, was a co-defendant with Jacob Frohwerk. He began...
T
Ted Graham
Released
Ted Graham was the business agent of Cleaning & Dye House Workers' Union Local 20 in St. Louis, arrested along...
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Mubarak Hamed
Released
Mubarak Hamed was the executive director of the now-defunct Islamic American Relief Agency from 1991 to Octobe...
J
Jesse D. Hartzler
Released
Jesse D. Hartzler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Missouri who was drafted and arrived at Camp Mac...
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Ora J. Hartzler
Released
Ora J. Hartzler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Marcus Marlvin Hunt
Released
In May 2020 in St. Louis, MO, Marcus Marlvin Hunt, 29, was charged with distribution of information relating t...
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Oral James
Released
Oral James was a young conscientious objector from St. Louis — one of two youths the future ACLU founder Roger...
Institutions in Missouri
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Missouri that appear in the census’s case files.
United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, SpringfieldSpringfield, Missouri
4 cases
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of MissouriSt. Louis, Missouri
3 cases
Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson CityJefferson City, Missouri
2 cases
United States Medical Center for Federal PrisonersSpringfield, Missouri
2 cases
Missouri State PenitentiaryJefferson City, Missouri
1 case
Jefferson City Correctional CenterJefferson City, Missouri
1 case
Jefferson Barracks / Fortress Monroe
1 case
Minuteman silo N5, Whiteman AFB — Good Friday Plowshares Missile Silo Witness
1 case