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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 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.

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Hobart Crandall
Released
Hobart Crandall was a conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
J
John Gill Craven
Released
John Gill Craven was principal of the Eleutherian Institute (later Eleutherian College) in Lancaster, Indiana...
C
Claude C. Culp
Released
Claude C. Culp was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
H
Homer B. Curtis
Released
Homer B. Curtis was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Co...
E
Eugene Debs
Released
Eugene Debs, The foremost American socialist of his era — locomotive fireman, founder of the American Railway...
H
Harrison H. Dodd
Released
Harrison H. Dodd was the Grand Commander of the Sons of Liberty in Indiana. Arrested in 1864 and tried by a mi...
L
Luther Donnell
Released
Luther Donnell was a Decatur County, Indiana abolitionist who in 1847 helped a woman named Caroline and her ch...
J
John Michael Donner
Released
Lead-named defendant in United States v. Donner, the federal case against the Beaver 55 for destroying 1-A and...
R
Richard Edwards
Released
Richard Edwards was a conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
H
Hugh F. Farrell
Released
Hugh F. Farrell, age 23, was indicted in 2009 with four misdemeanor counts (intimidation and conversion) plus...
E
Everett R. Fisher
Released
Everett R. Fisher was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War...
A
Arthur Foulke
Released
Arthur Foulke was a Quaker conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
E
Earl I. Garber
Released
Earl I. Garber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
J
John T. Gojack
Released
John T. Gojack was a vice-president of the United Electrical Workers and head of its District 9, convicted of...
L
Leon Andrew Gomillia
Leon Andrew Gomillia was an Indianapolis Black Power defendant jailed in 1968 over an alleged weapons and poli...
W
William Goppert
Released
William Goppert was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I...
J
Jacob Daniel Webster Greene
Released
Jacob Daniel Webster Greene was prosecuted for criminal libel in Harrison County, Indiana for distributing ant...
J
Jesse Hann
Released
Jesse Hann was a United Farmers' League member charged with "obstructing the course of justice" in the January...
W
Willard F. Heminger
Released
Willard F. Heminger was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World W...
C
C.J. Herschberger
Released
C.J. Herschberger was a Amish conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
E
Elmer Hershberger
Released
Elmer Hershberger was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
I
Ivan Hochstetler
Released
Ivan Hochstetler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
O
Oscar Hochstetler
Released
Oscar Hochstetler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
C
Charles Hoke
Charles Hoke is described by the Anarchist Black Cross as a rural anarchist imprisoned in Indiana for a series...

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