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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.
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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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June Hunter
June Hunter was one of seven Black workers arrested May 26, 1936 during a St. Louis relief-office protest invo...
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C. Gregory Hyde
Released
C. Gregory Hyde appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Georg...
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Eugene Jaccard
Released
Eugene Jaccard appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
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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...
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William C. Jameson
William C. Jameson appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Ge...
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Robert Jarrott
Released
Robert Jarrott appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
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James Johnson (St. Louis defense case, 1935)
Page 3's October 30 St. Louis dispatch identifies James Johnson as a local Black worker sentenced to life impr...
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William Jordan
Released
William Jordan appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
T
Thomas Kearney
Released
Thomas Kearney appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
J
James Keelan
Released
James Keelan appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E...
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George Kingsland
Released
George Kingsland appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
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Leroy Kingsland
Released
Leroy Kingsland appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Georg...
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Gunnar Knutson
Released
Gunnar Knutson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
J
Joseph Lancaster
Released
Joseph Lancaster appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
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Loren Lentz
Released
Loren Lentz was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
D
David Lindeman
Released
David Lindeman was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
D
David Linderman
Released
David Linderman appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...
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Harry Lockwood
Released
Harry Lockwood was a truck drivers’ union picket jailed in Kansas City, Missouri during a 1936 organizing stru...
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Stanley Magruder
Released
Stanley Magruder was a conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Orest Stephen Makar
In Exile
Orest Stephen Makar was a Ukrainian-born photogrammetrist who entered the United States as a displaced person...
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Robert Manewitz
Released
Robert Manewitz was a St. Louis trade unionist and Communist Party organizer prosecuted with four others under...
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B. Mango
Released
B. Mango appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E. Le...
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Peter Markey
Released
Peter Markey appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E...
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