Learn More → State by State
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.
C
Christopher Lay
Released
Christopher Lay, age 20, son of Wade Lay, participated in the May 24, 2004 Tulsa bank-robbery attempt motivate...
W
Wade Greely Lay
Wade Greely Lay was convicted with his son Christopher of first-degree murder and attempted robbery after a Ma...
O
Orval Lewis
Released
Orval Lewis was the eighteen-year-old son of Oklahoma homesteaders swept up in Oklahoma County's 1940–41 crimi...
A
A. Litt
A. Litt signed a statement with four fellow defendants in the Oklahoma City federal protest prosecution. The M...
N
Neil Quentin Lucas
Released
Private Neil Quentin Lucas was a U.S. Army soldier who refused to deploy after his conscientious-objector clai...
H
Henry Lucius
Released
Henry Lucius was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
B
Bruce Magee
Released
Bruce Magee appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and c...
A
Adion Bryn Mallett
Released
Adion Mallett, 22, was charged with rioting and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony after he...
K
Kay Martin
Kay Martin, identified as national chairman of Youth Against War and Fascism, was imprisoned for supporting Am...
L
Luther Martin
Released
Luther Martin was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
W
William M. Martin
Released
William M. Martin was from Henrietta, Oklahoma. William M. Martin was sentenced to two years in prison. He ser...
W
W. H. Maxwell
Released
W. H. Maxwell was an Oklahoma defendant imprisoned following the 1917 anti-draft prosecutions. Contemporary re...
D
David W. Meister
Released
David W. Meister was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
W
William O. Myers
Released
William O. Myers was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
O
Otis Nation
Released
Otis Nation was a UCAPAWA / Oklahoma Tenant Farmers Union organizer — whom New Masses called 'our own Tom Joad...
C
C. C. Nesbitt
Released
C. C. Nesbitt was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 r...
D
David D. Nickel
Released
David D. Nickel was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. C...
C
Charles Samuel Offutt
Jack Spanner’s July 1931 report identifies Charles Samuel Offutt, also printed Offut, as an Oklahoma City labo...
S
Sam Owens
Sam Owens was identified as section organizer of the Unemployed Councils in Ray Pierce’s account of Oklahoma C...
J
Joe Paskvam
Released
Joe Paskvam was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 rel...
J
John M. Penner
Released
John M. Penner was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Co...
F
Floyd Philips
Floyd Philips was identified as section organizer of the Young Communist League in Ray Pierce’s account of Okl...
F
Frank Pierce
Frank Pierce was identified as member of the tenants’ league executive committee in Ray Pierce’s account of Ok...
R
R. J. Pierce
R. J. Pierce was arrested at the September 1, 1930 Communist-led Oklahoma City demonstration for unemployment...
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