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Kansas

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 Kansas.

81Documented
1In custody
79Released

Eras of repression in Kansas

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

1910s 59 1970s 7 1920s 5 1930s 4 1800s 3 2020s 1

Documented cases

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

Henry Parker
In Custody
Henry Parker, 30, of Wichita, KS was sentenced to 25 years in prison for firing multiple gunshots at police of...
Edward Anderson
Released
Edward Anderson was originally sentenced to two years in prison. He served at Leavenworth Penitentiary from Ja...
Giovanni Baldazzi
Released
Giovanni Baldazzi was sentenced to ten years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from August 30,...
Albert Barr
Released
Albert Barr, from Kansas, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from De...
A. M. Blumberg
Released
A. M. Blumberg, from Kansas, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and sentenced to four years in pri...
G. W. Bouldin
Released
G. W. Bouldin received a prison sentence of two years, which was commuted to a year and a day. He served in Le...
E. M. Boyd
Released
E. M. Boyd, from Kansas, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from Dec...
Spencer Kellogg Brown
Spencer Kellogg Brown, raised in the free-state struggle in Kansas, served the Union as a scout and agent befo...
Lyda Conley
Released
Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley was a Wyandot lawyer — the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar — who fought for...
Harry Drew
Released
Harry Drew, from Kansas, was sentenced to four years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from Dec...
Godfrey Ebel
Released
Godfrey Ebel, a laborer and an IWW member from San Francisco, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial...
G. A. Fanning
Released
G. A. Fanning was sentenced to a year and six months in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from Mar...
Jacob Frohwerk
Released
Jacob Frohwerk was a Kansas City newspaperman prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a series of artic...
Fred Grau
Released
Fred Grau, from Kansas, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from Dec...
J. Gresbach
Released
J. Gresbach, from Kansas, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitent...
Lillian Harman
Released
Lillian Harman was an American free-thought and free-love activist, the daughter of Lucifer, the Light-Bearer...
Morris Hecht
Released
Morris Hecht, from Kansas, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from D...
Ernest Henning
Released
Ernest Henning was sentenced to three years in prison and served at Leavenworth Penitentiary beginning Decembe...
P. J. Higgins
Released
P. J. Higgins, from Kansas, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penite...
Alexander Howat
Released
Alexander Howat was the long-time president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers who was jailed f...
Burt Lorton
Released
Burt Lorton, a nine-year IWW member and secretary of its Chicago Recruiting Union, was convicted at the mass I...
Enrique Flores Magon
Released
Enrique Flores Magon, an anarchist publisher from Mexico City, Mexico, was convicted of "mailing non-mailable...
Paul Maihak
Released
Paul Maihak, from Kansas, was sentenced to three years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from D...
Harry McCarl
Released
Harry McCarl, from Kansas, was sentenced to three years and six months. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary...

Institutions in Kansas

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

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort LeavenworthFort Leavenworth, Kansas
569 cases
United States Penitentiary, LeavenworthLeavenworth, Kansas
161 cases
Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary BarracksFort Leavenworth, Kansas
45 cases
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison
9 cases
Kansas State PenitentiaryLansing, Kansas
2 cases
Kansas City RRMKansas City, Kansas
1 case
Harvey County JailNewton, Kansas
1 case
Sedgwick County District Court / Kansas Department of CorrectionsWichita, Kansas
1 case