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Idaho
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 Idaho.
26Documented
0In custody
25Released
Eras of repression in Idaho
Where Idaho’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 20
1900s 4
1980s 1
1800s 1
Documented cases
26 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Annie Adams
Released
Annie Adams was the wife of Steve Adams, confined with her children inside the Idaho penitentiary under the cl...
Steve Adams
Released
Steve Adams was a Western Federation of Miners member who in February 1906 was arrested by the Pinkerton Natio...
Paul Corcoran
Released
Financial secretary of the Burke Miners' Union (Western Federation of Miners) in the Coeur d'Alene mining dist...
Bill Haywood
In Exile
William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood was the founding general secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Workers of th...
Charles Moyer
Released
Charles H. Moyer (1866–1929) was president of the Western Federation of Miners. He was born in Iowa in 1866 —...
George Pettibone
Released
Denver storekeeper and former Western Federation of Miners executive board member, blacklisted from the mines...
Edwin P. Wilson
Released
Wilson was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who later became involved in private contracting and i...
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Charles Anderson
Released
Charles Anderson, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Bert Banker
Released
Bert Banker, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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J. L. Brian
Released
J. L. Brian, of St. Maries, Idaho, received a sentence of one to ten years under Idaho's criminal syndicalism...
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Charles Carlson
Released
Charles Carlson, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Charles Clifford
Released
Charles Clifford, from Moscow, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Max Dezettel
Released
Max Dezettel was a Spokane IWW organizer and local secretary who went to Boise, Idaho in August 1911 to establ...
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Henry Fainer
Released
Henry Fainer, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Frank Fleury
Released
Frank Fleury, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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T. E. Hawkins
Released
T. E. Hawkins, from Moscow, Idaho, received a six-month to ten-year prison sentence.
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H. E. Herd
Released
H. E. Herd, from Moscow, Idaho, received a four- to ten-year sentence on April 15, 1918, for violating the sta...
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George Kopp
Released
George Kopp, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Joe Martin
Released
Joe Martin, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Dennis McCarthy
Released
Dennis McCarthy, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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E. L. Montgomery
Released
E. L. Montgomery, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Lyman Moore
Released
Lyman Moore, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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Fred Morgan
Released
Fred Morgan, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
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William Nelson
Released
William Nelson, from St. Maries, Idaho, received a two- to ten-year prison sentence for violating the state's...
Institutions in Idaho
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Idaho that appear in the census’s case files.
Ada County JailBoise, Idaho
3 cases
Idaho State Penitentiary
2 cases
Idaho county jails (Caldwell, Wallace, Rathdrum)
1 case
Multnomah County Jail / Minidoka War Relocation CenterHunt, Idaho
1 case
Boise City JailBoise, Idaho
1 case