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Nebraska
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 Nebraska.
137Documented
1In custody
80Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Nebraska
Where Nebraska’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 79
1980s 25
1930s 11
1950s 7
1970s 6
2020s 5
Recent dashboard entries from Nebraska
The newest published events and reporting located in Nebraska, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
A Grand Island High ICE walkout ends in an altercation; one man arrested
Protest
Thousands fill Turner Park for the Omaha No Kings rally
Protest
Rep. Mike Flood booed over the budget bill and Medicaid at a Lincoln town hall
Protest
Protesters use the College World Series as a backdrop to decry ICE raids
Prosecution
Four protesters charged after Omaha ICE raid at meatpacking plant
Protest
Immigration raid rocks Nebraska plant; protesters and police clash
Arrest
Four people were arrested after a protest against an ICE raid at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha; one, a US-citizen plant worker, was charged with assaulting officers and breaking a vehicle window with a rock
Documented cases
137 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Oscar Swanson
Released
Oscar Swanson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eight...
Stanley Dale Sydow
Released
Stanley Dale Sydow was a Korean War objector prosecuted in Omaha in 1952 for refusing induction into the Army,...
Kristin Layng Szakos
Released
Kristin Layng Szakos is a writer, community organizer, and former Charlottesville city councilor. While a stud...
Brent Vanderlinden
Released
Brent Vanderlinden is a Catholic peace activist associated with the Des Moines Catholic Worker. On December 28...
John Zeitler
Released
John Zeitler was a Roman Catholic priest, social worker, and peace activist born April 28, 1940 in East Brady,...
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John Squires
John Squires was a Nebraska farmer and Farm Holiday organizer prosecuted with Ella Reeve Bloor after the June...
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Portius Sell
Portius Sell was the son of Arcadia, Nebraska farmer Bert/Burt Sell and a defendant prosecuted with Mother Blo...
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Rich Koeppen
Rich Koeppen was individually reported as serving an Offutt Air Force Base protest sentence from November 28 t...
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Mike Palecek
Mike Palecek was individually reported as serving an Offutt Air Force Base protest sentence from November 28 t...
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Margaret Olsen
Margaret Olsen began actually serving a thirty-day jail sentence on November 29, 1983 following November 15 se...
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R. Kevin McGuire
R. Kevin McGuire was imprisoned in connection with nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons. R. Kevin McGuire...
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Ron Renkowski
Ron Renkowski was arrested during the February 14, 1985 anti-nuclear witness at Offutt Air Force Base and rema...
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Watkins
Named as Watkins in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13, 1917 co...
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Mrs. Elmer Buse
Named as Mrs. Elmer Buse in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13,...
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D. O. Anderson
Named as D. O. Anderson in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13,...
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Gus Aubrey
Named as Gus Aubrey in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13, 1917...
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Gerald Baldwin
Named as Gerald Baldwin in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13,...
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C. E. Bates
Released
C. E. Bates was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over 18 mont...
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Roy Becker
Released
Roy Becker was an Industrial Workers of the World member arrested in Omaha, Nebraska, during a November 1917 r...
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H. Biddiscomb
Latchem identifies H. Biddiscomb in the November 13, 1917 Omaha IWW arrests and individually records release o...
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Bob Yellow Bird
Released
Bob Yellow Bird was the Nebraska state coordinator of the American Indian Movement. On September 15, 1976, pol...
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Floyd Booth
Released
Floyd Booth was a Black unemployed-workers' organizer in Loup City, Nebraska. He was arrested after the June 1...
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Loretta Booth
Released
Mrs. Floyd Booth was jailed with her husband, Black unemployed-workers' organizer Floyd Booth, and Ella Reeve...
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Bill Boyler
Named as Bill Boyler in E. W. Latchem’s April 12, 1920 account of IWW members arrested at the November 13, 191...
Institutions in Nebraska
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Nebraska that appear in the census’s case files.
Nebraska State PenitentiaryLincoln, Nebraska
2 cases
Lancaster County District Court
1 case
Fort Robinson
1 case