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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
Recent dashboard entries from Ohio
The newest published events and reporting located in Ohio, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Ohio grand jury declines to indict Cody Morelock over alleged destruction of a Flock camera
Prosecution
Keith LaMar speaks from Ohio death row after a three-year execution reprieve
Protest
Protesters rally against mail-in voting bill outside Ohio Statehouse
Other
FBI raids Ohio voting rights group
Other
FBI Raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative in Apparent Intimidation Campaign
Other
Ohio voting rights group facing criminal fraud investigation, sources say
Other
Ohio pro-democracy organization raided by FBI
Protest
Ohio protesters push for bill to make child marriages illegal
Documented cases
349 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
John Douglas
Released
John Douglas was from Zanesville, Ohio. John Douglas began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 26, 19...
John E. Downey
Released
John E. Downey was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
Nancy Epling
Released
Nancy Jane Epling, 32, was one of five protesters who blocked access roads to a Boeing facility in Heath OH on...
Ahmed Evans
Released
Ahmed Evans was a Black nationalist leader convicted of first-degree murder for the July 1968 Glenville shooto...
Henry Evans
Released
Henry Evans was a free Black cabinetmaker in Oberlin, Ohio (brother of fellow rescuer Wilson Bruce Evans). Hen...
Wilson Bruce Evans
Released
Wilson Bruce Evans was a free Black cabinetmaker in Oberlin, Ohio (brother of fellow rescuer Henry Evans). Wil...
Henry Feltman
Released
Henry Feltman was from Cincinnati, Ohio. Henry Feltman began serving a sentence on September 6, 1918.
James M. Fitch
Released
James M. Fitch was an Oberlin, Ohio bookseller and Sabbath-school superintendent. James M. Fitch was one of th...
Larry Gara
Released
Larry Gara was later a distinguished pacifist historian. He refused to register for the draft in the Second Wo...
Joseph Geier
Released
Joseph Geier was from Ohio. Joseph Geier was sentenced to fifteen months in prison and served in Atlanta Penit...
Matthew Gillett
Released
Matthew Gillett was an elderly Wellington, Ohio farmer. Matthew Gillett was one of the twenty men committed to...
O. E. Gordon
Released
O. E. Gordon was a shoemaker from Columbus, Ohio. O. E. Gordon was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita...
Janet Guinn
Janet Guinn, identified as Mrs. Janet Guinn, was the leader of 51 women jailed in St.Clairsville, Ohio after g...
Charles Guynn
Released
Charles Guynn was an organizer and national secretary of the National Miners’ Union. Police arrested him with...
Shakir Hamoodi
Released
Shakir Hamoodi is an Iraqi-born American nuclear engineer, business owner, interfaith leader and opponent of t...
Marie Reed Haug
Released
Marie Reed Haug was a Cleveland union business representative and Progressive Party committeewoman. Prosecutor...
Mustafah Omar Hawkins
Released
In June 2020 in Cleveland, OH, Mustafah Omar Hawkins, 27, was charged with Interstate Threatening Communicatio...
Anthony Hayne
Released
Anthony Hayne was one of five men arrested in 2012 after a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover operatio...
Joe Horsky
Joe Horsky was a railroad worker sympathetic to the miners, imprisoned in Cadiz, Ohio, for violating an injunc...
Andrew S. Johnson
Released
Andrew S. Johnson was a Black student from Cincinnati who joined the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation against bu...
Tom Johnson
Released
Tom Johnson was a Communist organizer who worked with the Trade Union Unity League and Metal Workers’ Industri...
Harllel B. Jones
Released
Harllel B. Jones was a Cleveland community organizer and founder of Afro Set, also known as the Black National...
Paul Kassay
Released
Paul F. Kassay was a Hungarian mechanic at the Goodyear-Zeppelin works in Akron, Ohio, during construction of...
Frieda Zucker Katz
Released
Frieda Zucker Katz was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953 in the Ohio Smith Act roundup and held under $...
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