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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.
266Documented
7In custody
212Released
4Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Missouri
Where Missouri’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 139
1910s 22
1960s 21
1930s 18
2010s 16
1980s 13
Recent dashboard entries from Missouri
The newest published events and reporting located in Missouri, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Two residents arrested at a Springfield City Council meeting amid protests over Flock cameras
Arrest
Data-center moratorium protester arrested during a march from the Missouri Capitol to the Governor’s Mansion
Arrest
Dominic O'Connor arrested while protesting Columbia's Flock surveillance cameras
Prosecution
Video evidence clears activist of felony charge
Protest
St. Joseph residents pack a City Council meeting to protest a proposed data center
Protest
Protest, summit highlight divide over data centers in Missouri
Protest
Nurses at Research Medical Center to hold rally demanding immediate action on unsafe patient care conditions
Protest
Five arrested disrupting St. Louis mayor's State of the City
Documented cases
266 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Dick Gregory
Released
Dick Gregory was a celebrity who used celebrity as a platform for direct participation in civil rights, antiwa...
Armin Harcevic
Released
Armin Harcevic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
C...
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic
Released
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria...
Sedina Unkic Hodzic
Released
Sedina Unkic Hodzic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syri...
J.B. Johnson
Released
Black St. Louis man facing a life term for the murder of a policeman during a 1970 robbery, in a case his supp...
Rev. Carl Kabat
Released
Rev. Carl Kabat was a Catholic priest with the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who became widely known f...
Rev. Paul Kabat
Released
Paul Kabat was an Oblate Catholic priest, the brother of Carl Kabat, and a participant with Carl, Larry Cloud-...
Eric King
Released
Eric King was an anarchist and local artist known to Kansas City police for doing unauthorized politically cha...
Joann Malone
Released
Joann Malone was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969 and dam...
Owen McIntire
Released
Owen McIntire was arrested on April 18, 2025 and federally charged over an incendiary attack that damaged two...
Howard Mechanic
Released
Howard Mechanic was a college student at Washington University in St. Louis who attended a protest at his loca...
Raymond I. Moore
Raymond I. Moore was a Kansas City antiwar organizer with the Federation for Democratic Control. He was prosec...
Kate Richards O'Hare
Released
Kate Richards O'Hare was a prominent Socialist Party of America organizer and antiwar speaker whose public lec...
Jermaine Parker
Released
In St. Louis, Jermaine Parker was arrested after a shooting incident that occurred during unrest following the...
Nihad Rosic
Released
Nihad Rosic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Case...
Mediha Medy Salkicevic
Released
Mediha Medy Salkicevic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and S...
Dakota P. Schee
Released
Dakota P. Schee was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of...
Antonia Sentner
Released
Antonia Sentner was a Yugoslav-born St. Louis labor organizer and the wife of union leader William Sentner. Im...
Mark Siljander
Released
Mark Siljander was a former Republican congressman from Michigan and an ardent social conservative and fundame...
Jerome White-Bey
Jerome White-Bey is a Missouri prisoner and anarchist organizer who founded the Missouri Prison Labor Union in...
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Matthew E. Madden
In Custody
Matthew E. Madden was arrested during protests in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 1, 2020, after police said he...
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D. B. Levis
D. B. Levis was the Kansas City secretary of the International Labor Defense. A report dated September 29, 193...
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Rose Levering
Rose Levering was individually named among Crawdad Alliance opponents of the Calloway nuclear power plant who...
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Willie Maxwell
Willie Maxwell was individually named among Crawdad Alliance opponents of the Calloway nuclear power plant who...
Institutions in Missouri
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Missouri that appear in the census’s case files.
Saint Louis Military PrisonSaint Louis, Missouri
127 cases
U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, SpringfieldSpringfield, Missouri
6 cases
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
St. Louis WorkhouseSt. Louis, Missouri
2 cases
United States Medical Center for Federal PrisonersSpringfield, Missouri
2 cases
Missouri State PenitentiaryJefferson City, Missouri
1 case