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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.

198Documented
3In custody
192Released

Eras of repression in Ohio

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

1910s 54 1950s 31 1800s 30 2020s 26 1930s 14 2010s 9

Documented cases

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

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Devonna Culver
Released
Devonna Culver was arrested by the Akron Police Department in the early morning hours of July 4, 2022, during...
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Robert L. Cummings
Released
Robert L. Cummings was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. Arr...
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Matthew De Wolfe
Released
Matthew De Wolfe was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On Ma...
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Clark Dickson
Released
Clark Dickson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, began serving a prison sentence on August 7, 1918.
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Lathan L. Donald
Released
Co-defendant of Fred Ahmed Evans in the Glenville Shootout — the July 23, 1968 armed confrontation in the Glen...
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Joseph Dougher
Released
Joseph Dougher was arrested in Steubenville on October 6, 1953, in the Ohio Smith Act roundup during the McCar...
B
Brendan Eaton
Released
Brendan Eaton, approximately 20 years old at the time, was arrested during protests in Akron, Ohio on July 4,...
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Robert Fee
Released
Robert E. Fee was a member of Clermont County, Ohio's most prominent Underground Railroad family and the agent...
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Henry Feltman
Released
Henry Feltman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, began serving a sentence on September 6, 1918.
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Daniel Flanagan
Released
Daniel Flanagan was the editor of the Mason Democrat in Mason, Ohio. In February 1865 he was tried by a milita...
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Jerome Friedman
Released
Jerome 'Jerry' Friedman was Ohio State's undergraduate student president in 1971–72, an antiwar activist, and...
C
Charles Fritz
Released
Charles Fritz was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
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Lowell L. Fritz
Released
Lowell L. Fritz was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Larry Gara
Released
Larry Gara, later a distinguished pacifist historian, refused to register for the draft in the Second World Wa...
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Timothy James Goodner
Released
Timothy James Goodner, 19, was involved in an act of arson concerning the Shaia's Parking Lot attendant booth...
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Ira B. Graber
Released
Ira B. Graber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Elias Graceley
Released
Elias Graceley, of Toledo, Ohio, began serving a sentence on April 5, 1918.
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Ronald T. Green
Released
Ronald T. Green, 24, of Youngstown OH, threw an object through the rear window of a Youngstown police cruiser...
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Elvador Greenfield
Released
Elvador Greenfield was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953, in the Ohio Smith Act roundup during the McCa...
C
Charles Guynn
Released
Charles Guynn, the national secretary of the National Miners' Union, was convicted under Ohio's criminal-syndi...
T
Thomas Hammerschmidt
Released
Thomas Hammerschmidt, from Ohio, was convicted for circulating a leaflet against registration and sentenced to...
J
John Hardrick
Released
Co-defendant of Fred Ahmed Evans in the Glenville Shootout — the July 23, 1968 armed confrontation in the Glen...
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Darryl Harris
Released
Darryl Harris was a Cleveland organizer associated with the local National Committee to Combat Fascism (the Bl...
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Frank Hashmall
Released
Frank Hashmall was sentenced to five years for putting a false name and address on an automobile registration...

Institutions in Ohio

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

Summit County JailAkron, Ohio
12 cases
U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioCleveland, Ohio
4 cases
Licking County JailNewark, Ohio
3 cases
Elkton FCILisbon, Ohio
2 cases
Ohio State PenitentiaryYoungstown, Ohio
2 cases
Mansfield Youth Center
2 cases
Canton WorkhouseCanton, Ohio
2 cases
Kemper Barracks military prisonCincinnati, Ohio
1 case