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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 Ohio.

349Documented
6In custody
215Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Ohio

Where Ohio’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 83 1910s 66 2020s 42 1950s 31 1800s 31 1920s 23

Documented cases

349 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

G
George Neiber
George Neiber was an organizer of the Marine Workers Industrial Union. The Daily Worker of December 8, 1934, p...
C
Colin Neiburger
Released
Colin Neiburger participated in the Columbus antiwar movement of the 1970s. A May 1972 court opinion documents...
E
Edward A. Nightingale
Released
Edward A. Nightingale was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
H
Henry D. Niles
Released
Henry D. Niles was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On May...
S
Steve Novak
Steve Novak, militant leader of the strike, was among twelve Cleveland striking newsboys freed through the Int...
W
William Nusbaum
Released
William Nussbaum was a Mennonite conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
A
Albert S. Nussbaum
Released
Albert S. Nussbaum was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
O
Okey Odel
Okey Odel was a rank-and-file leader of the onion-pickers’ strike near McGuffey, Hardin County, Ohio. John Mar...
O
Okey Odell
Okey Odell led the Hardin County onion workers strike and presided over its newly chartered union. Jamieson re...
J
John Orawiec
John Orawiec was the eighth suspect in the 1937 Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He wa...
K
Kenneth Osthimer
Released
Kenneth Osthimer, also spelled Ostheimer, was an Unemployed Council organizer arrested on the picket line duri...
L
Lester G. Ott
Released
Lester G. Ott was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
E
Evan O’Reilly
Evan O’Reilly, a community organizer from Cleveland, was arrested during the July 4, 2022 Akron protest organi...
D
David Palmer
Released
David Palmer was one of two Black boys jailed after a nine-year-old girl in Massillon, Ohio, said that a Black...
S
Sam Pollack
Named among four Toledo pickets arrested May 7, 1934 for deliberately defying Judge Stuart’s Auto-Lite/Bingham...
F
Frank Postick
A coal-strike prisoner signing a June 26, 1931 letter from Belmont County Jail.
T
Talmadge Raley
Released
Talmadge Raley was convicted of contempt after refusing to answer questions from the Ohio Un-American Activiti...
W
Wayne Raney
Wayne Raney was a Black prisoner and prisoners’ rights hunger striker at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facili...
W
William Reamy
William Reamy was one of five members of a Cincinnati unemployed-workers’ relief delegation arrested on Octobe...
S
Sam Reed
Released
Sam Reed was a union member and former Communist Party official prosecuted in the Cleveland Taft-Hartley consp...
W
Wayne Reed
The Cincinnati report describes Wayne Reed and Russell Bell being pursued after a July 1978 King Quick parking...
B
Bill Reich
AWP member and Ohio Unemployed League educational director, reported actually held in Columbus Work House for...
E
Eric Reinthaler
Released
Eric Jerome Reinthaler was a former officer of United Electrical Workers Local 735 in Cleveland. Federal prose...
A
Andrew Remes
Released
Andrew Remes was one of the eight defendants indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case, a...

Institutions in Ohio

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Ohio that appear in the census’s case files.

Cuyahoga County JailCleveland, Ohio
21 cases
Summit County JailAkron, Ohio
12 cases
Camp ChaseColumbus, Ohio
6 cases
U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioCleveland, Ohio
4 cases
Camp MansfieldMansfield, Ohio
4 cases
Hamilton City JailHamilton, Ohio
4 cases
Licking County JailNewark, Ohio
3 cases
Elkton FCILisbon, Ohio
2 cases