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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.
J. Henry Kruse
Released
J. Henry Kruse was from Cincinnati, Ohio. J. Henry Kruse began serving a prison sentence on September 7, 1918....
Keith LaMar
Released
Keith LaMar, who has taken the name Bomani Shakur in prison, is an Ohio death row prisoner whose case is among...
Charles Langston
Released
Charles Langston was a free Black abolitionist and educator (and grandfather of the poet Langston Hughes). Cha...
Patricia Gros Levasseur
Released
Patricia Gros Levasseur, also known as Patricia Rowbottom and Pat Gros, was raised in a white working-class fa...
Raymond Luc Levasseur
Released
Raymond Luc Levasseur was a leading figure in the United Freedom Front, which operated as an underground cell-...
William E. Lincoln
Released
William E. Lincoln was an English-born Oberlin student. William E. Lincoln was one of the twenty men jailed fo...
Mike Lindway
Released
Mike J. Lindway was an Industrial Workers of the World machinist involved in the National Screw and Manufactur...
Brandon Michael Althof Long
Released
In Cleveland, OH, Brandon Michael Althof Long, 23, and Devon Bryce Poland, 22, were both charged with conspira...
Deric Lostutter
Released
Deric Lostutter was a hacker affiliated with the group Anonymous who helped bring attention to the Steubenvill...
Meredith Lowell
Released
Meredith Lowell, age 35, was charged in 2019 with attempted murder, two counts felonious assault, and aggravat...
Hyman Lumer
Released
Hyman Lumer was an economist, Communist Party national education secretary and editor. A jury convicted him an...
Ansel W. Lyman
Released
Ansel W. Lyman was an Oberlin student. Ansel W. Lyman was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga Coun...
Gordon Maham
Released
Gordon Maham was an Ohio civil engineer, conscientious objector and nuclear-disarmament activist. He helped bu...
Hunter Mattin
Released
Hunter Mattin, age 20, an Ohio State University student, was arrested April 13, 2021 for aggravated burglary d...
Maurice McCrackin
Released
The Rev. Maurice McCrackin was a Cincinnati minister who for ten years refused to pay federal income taxes bec...
Aron McKillips
Released
Aron McKillips was a Sandusky, Ohio, participant in the anti-government Boogaloo movement and was also reporte...
Catherine Melville
Released
Catherine Melville, a former Roman Catholic nun and wife of former Maryknoll priest Arthur Melville, was one o...
Bernard Meyer
Released
Bernard Meyer, a Roman Catholic priest associated with Cleveland, was one of the D.C. Nine who entered Dow Che...
Edson B. Olds
Released
Edson B. Olds was a physician and former Democratic U.S. Representative from Ohio who became a leader of the a...
Jaywuan Peavy
Released
In June 2020 in Cleveland, OH, Jaywuan Peavy, 19, was charged with using a facility of interstate commerce to...
Henry E. Peck
Released
Henry E. Peck was an Oberlin College professor and later U.S. minister to Haiti. Henry E. Peck was one of the...
John Perotti
Released
John Perotti was a militant jailhouse organizer and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who sp...
Sister Diane Pinchot
Released
Sister Diane Therese Pinchot OSU is an Ursuline Sister of Cleveland and a participant in multiple Plowshares-s...
Ralph Plumb
Released
Ralph Plumb was an Oberlin, Ohio lawyer and businessman (later a U.S. Congressman from Illinois). Ralph Plumb...
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