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Indiana

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 Indiana.

103Documented
5In custody
93Released

Eras of repression in Indiana

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

1910s 52 1960s 14 1930s 9 1800s 8 2020s 4 2000s 4

Documented cases

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

José Felan
In Custody
José Felan was a Black Lives Matter protestor who was arrested on May 28th, 2020 in relation to fires set duri...
John C Cole Jr.
In Custody
John C. Cole Jr., aka Balagoon, has been locked up in the corrupt Indiana Department of Corrections since the...
Kwame Shakur
In Custody
Kwame Beans Shakur is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective and National Direct...
Shaka Shakur
In Custody
Shaka Adiyia Shakur is a New Afrikan political prisoner held under Indiana Department of Correction number 199...
Christopher Trotter
In Custody
Christopher Trotter had three months left in his sentence for petty theft when he saw a fellow inmate getting...
Zolo Azania
Released
Zolo Azania is a former Black Panther convicted of a 1981 bank robbery that left a Gary, Indiana cop dead. He...
William A. Bowles
Released
William A. Bowles was an Indiana physician and a leader of the Sons of Liberty, an antiwar secret society. Arr...
Waldo Frank
Released
Waldo Frank was an American novelist and essayist and the first chairman of the League of American Writers. He...
Maggie Gates
Released
Maggie Gates is an activist from Indiana who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Traini...
Stephen Horsey
Released
Stephen Horsey was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis with Lambdin...
Andrew Humphreys
Released
Andrew Humphreys was an Indiana antiwar Democrat tried before a military commission at Indianapolis in the Son...
Daniel McGowan
Released
Daniel Gerard McGowan is an American environmental activist previously affiliated with the Earth Liberation Fr...
Lambdin P. Milligan
Released
Lambdin P. Milligan was an Indiana lawyer and Copperhead Democrat who in October 1864 was arrested by Union mi...
George W. Snell
Released
George W. Snell, a farmer from Tyler, Texas, served a prison sentence in Atlanta Penitentiary from September 2...
Lawrence Williamson
Released
Lawrence Williamson was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martia...
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Frank Ambrose
Released
Frank Ambrose was an Earth Liberation Front activist and the then-husband of fellow ELF organizer Marius Mason...
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Lloyd C. Blickenstaff
Released
Lloyd C. Blickenstaff was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World...
H
Henry D. Blough
Released
Henry D. Blough was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Emanuel Blum
Released
Emanuel Blum was described as 'Indiana's first Smith Act victim,' indicted in 1956 under the Smith Act's membe...
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Charles W. Bolly
Released
Charles W. Bolly, from Mungo, Indiana, was aDunkardand objected to military service on religious grounds. He d...
A
Amos T. Bontrager
Released
Amos T. Bontrager was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
J
Jesse L. Brenneman
Released
Jesse L. Brenneman was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I....
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Paul Butash
Released
Paul Butash was a magazine salesman convicted in twenty minutes by an Angola, Indiana jury under the state's c...
A
Allen B. Christophel
Released
Allen B. Christophel was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-...

Institutions in Indiana

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

Communications Management UnitAlbany, Indiana
6 cases
USP Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
3 cases
Terre Haute JailTerre Haute, Indiana
3 cases
FCI Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
2 cases
United States Penitentiary, Terre HauteTerre Haute, Indiana
2 cases
Indiana State PrisonMichigan City, Indiana
2 cases
Miami Correctional FacilityBunker Hill, Indiana
1 case
Indianapolis Federal Military PrisonIndianapolis, Indiana
1 case