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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.

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Tandre Buchanan
Released
Tandre Buchanan Jr., 22, of Cleveland, OH was charged with interference with commerce by robbery after being i...
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George Bundas
George Bundas was a defendant in the Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He remained jail...
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Charles Byers
Charles Byers was a defendant in the Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He remained jail...
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Walter Byers
Walter Byers was a member of the Unemployment Council of Holland, Ohio arrested on the picket line at Bingham'...
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Quinton Byrd
Byrd, a 30-year-old Akron father of five, said he was walking to a friend’s home rather than protesting. The c...
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Robert A. Campbell
Released
Robert A. Campbell was a former Ohio Communist Party education director. Federal agents arrested him on Octobe...
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Frank Cedervall
Released
Frank Cedervall was an Industrial Workers of the World organizer arrested in Lorain, Ohio, on February 11, 193...
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Edward Joseph Chaka
Released
Edward Joseph Chaka was indicted in Cleveland on January 23, 1957 with seven others on a charge of conspiring...
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Smiley Chatok
Released
Smiley Chatok was a striker in the 1937 Youngstown, Ohio Little Steel strike. Authorities arrested him during...
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Devonte Clark
Released
Devonte Clark (identified as Devante Clark in the Harris complaint) was arrested during the Akron protests fol...
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Thad Coffin
Released
Thad Coffin was jailed following anti-nuclear civil disobedience at a General Electric plant producing B-1 bom...
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Marcus Cohen
Marcus Cohen was a Columbus Unemployed Council member arrested for collecting funds for the Ohio hunger march....
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Arthur Connelly
Released
Arthur Connelly volunteered as secretary at Steel Workers Organizing Committee Lodge 1331 on Poland Avenue in...
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Shelby Crane
Released
Shelby Crane, approximately 20 years old and an Ohio resident, was arrested at 3:45 AM on July 4, 2022, during...
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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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William Cunningham
Released
William Cunningham was imprisoned at Chillicothe for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960...
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Cush (Mansfield, 1931)
Cush was an organizer for the Metal Workers Industrial League during the May 1931 strike at Empire Steel in Ma...
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Doug Dailey
Doug Dailey was a London, Ohio farmer and Family Farm Movement leader jailed for civil contempt after refusing...
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Arthur Davis (Cleveland relief protest, 1934)
Arthur Davis, identified as a Black Cleveland worker, was arrested after relief-related action at Quincy Marke...
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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...
C
Clark Dickson
Released
Clark Dickson was from Cincinnati, Ohio. Clark Dickson began serving a prison sentence on August 7, 1918.
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Tony Dido
Tony Dido, president of the Newsboys’ Union, was among twelve Cleveland striking newsboys freed through the In...
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Irene Dixon
Jailed after a July 1931 police raid on an Ohio workers’ children’s camp.

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