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Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma.
162Documented
3In custody
131Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Oklahoma
Where Oklahoma’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 91
1930s 28
1940s 8
1970s 7
1960s 7
2000s 6
Recent dashboard entries from Oklahoma
The newest published events and reporting located in Oklahoma, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Four Tulsa Food Not Bombs volunteers arrested for obstruction at a weekly free-meal handout after the city demanded a costly events permit
Prosecution
Skiatook, Oklahoma man Logan Murfin was convicted by a federal jury on ten counts of threatening to assault and murder federal agents in posts on X targeting ICE officers
Protest
Stand Up for Science rally hits the Oklahoma Capitol against research cuts
Arrest
Arrest made at heated Claremore data center meeting
Arrest
Community activist arrested at Claremore data center meeting
Arrest
Oklahoma man arrested at AI data center meeting
Arrest
Oklahoma farmer jailed for trespassing at AI data center town hall
Arrest
Tension over a proposed AI data center leads to an arrest in Oklahoma
Documented cases
162 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Geronimo
Released
Geronimo was a Chiricahua Apache leader of the last major Indigenous armed resistance to U.S. expansion in the...
Dale Bartell
Released
Specialist Dale Bartell was a U.S. Army soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq in May 2005 to preserve his pend...
W. L. Bennefield
Released
W. L. Bennefield was a farmer, a Socialist and a member of the Working Class Union from Oklahoma. W. L. Bennef...
B. F. Bryant
Released
B. F. Bryant was a member of both the Socialist Party and the Universal Union from Maysville, Oklahoma. B. F....
Roy Crane
Released
Roy Crane was from Oklahoma. Roy Crane was sentenced to seven years in prison and served at Leavenworth Penite...
J. T. Cumbie
Released
J. T. Cumbie was a seventy-four-year-old minister and a Socialist from Oklahoma. J. T. Cumbie was sentenced to...
Albert Eberlie
Released
Albert Eberlie was a farmer from Sasakwa, Oklahoma. Albert Eberlie was sentenced to two years in prison. He se...
Mrs. Flora Foreman
Released
Flora I. Foreman was an Oregon Socialist and schoolteacher prosecuted under the Espionage Act in Texas. In a p...
Norma Gist
Released
Norma Gist was a thirty-year-old Black mother of two in Idabel, Oklahoma, whose prosecution grew out of an inc...
Ira Hardy
Released
Ira Hardy was an African-American farmer from Rocky Point, Oklahoma. Ira Hardy was sentenced to two years in p...
Chitto Harjo
Released
Chitto Harjo was a Muscogee leader who resisted the dissolution of the Muscogee government and communal land s...
J. I. Whidden
J. I. Whidden was identified as field organizer in Ray Pierce’s account of Oklahoma City unemployment organizi...
Joshua Key
Released
Joshua Key, born in Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1978, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002 and was stationed at...
John M. Klaassen
Released
John M. Klaassen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
J. H. Majors
Released
J. H. Majors was from Bear, Oklahoma. J. H. Majors was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in Leavenwo...
J. A. Maxwell
Released
J. A. Maxwell was a farmer from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, who received a two-year prison sentence. He was impris...
Timothy James McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh was convicted of the politically motivated April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murra...
C. W. Morris
Released
C. W. Morris was a Working Class Union member from Oklahoma. C. W. Morris was sentenced to six years in prison...
H. H. Munson
Released
H. H. Munson was a Socialist and president of the Working Class Union from Oklahoma. H. H. Munson was arrested...
Isael Ortiz
Released
Isael Antonio Ortiz is an Oklahoma City man convicted in connection with the May 30, 2020 BLM protests in down...
Walter Phillips
Released
Walter Phillips was a Working Class Unionmember from Oklahoma. Walter Phillips was sentenced to four years in...
Earl Potter
Released
Earl Potter was a barber from Konawa, Oklahoma. Earl Potter was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in...
Victor Privat
Released
Victor Privat of Ketchum, Oklahoma, was sentenced to two years in prison under the Espionage Act. He served at...
Walter M. Reeder
Released
Walter M. Reeder was a Universal Union member from Wilson, Oklahoma. Walter M. Reeder was sentenced to six yea...
Institutions in Oklahoma
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Oklahoma that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Sill brigFort Sill, Oklahoma
5 cases
Oklahoma State PenitentiaryMcAlester, Oklahoma
4 cases
Oklahoma County JailOklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 cases
Mabel Bassett Correctional InstitutionMcLoud, Oklahoma
1 case
Fort Pickens / Mount Vernon Barracks / Fort Sill
1 case
McLeod Honor FarmFarris, Oklahoma
1 case