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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.
A
Abraham Goertz
Released
Abraham Goertz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
J
Joyce Guerrero
Released
Joyce Guerrero was a 27-year-old Potawatomi woman and mother of two who, The Black Panther reported (September...
M
Milton Haworth
Released
Milton Haworth was a conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
D
David O. Heibert
Released
David O. Heibert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
P
Peter Hiebert
Released
Peter Hiebert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
A
Alf Hill Jr.
Released
Alf Hill Jr. was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in con...
E
Ernest Honeywell
Released
Ernest Honeywell was one of ten CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attac...
A
Alfred Jasper
Released
Alfred Jasper was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in co...
P
Peter Johnson
Released
Peter Johnson was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
V
Verne Lester Kessler
Released
Verne Lester Kessler was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World W...
N
Noah Leatherman
Released
Noah Leatherman was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
H
Herman Loewen
Released
Herman Loewen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
J
Jesse Lopez
Released
Jesse Lopez was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in conn...
J
Jacob N. Martens
Released
Jacob N. Martens was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Co...
R
Robert Michener
Released
Robert Michener was a nineteen-year-old Quaker and Drake University student sentenced to ten years in federal...
E
Ernest Hartzler Miller
Released
Ernest Hartzler Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court...
J
John Y. Miller
Released
John Y. Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
A
Armando Miramon
Released
Armando Miramon was one of the "Leavenworth Brothers" — six prisoners (four Black and two Chicano) charged in...
J
Joe Neil
Released
Joe Neil, an IWW member, was incarcerated in the insane ward of the Kansas State Penitentiary (from 1922 to 19...
A
Abraham F. Neufeld
Released
Abraham F. Neufeld was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
P
Peter W. Pankratz
Released
Peter W. Pankratz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
J
John Jacob Plenert
Released
John Jacob Plenert was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
C
Carl A. Schmidt
Released
Carl A. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed...
D
Daniel J. Schmidt
Released
Daniel J. Schmidt was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martiale...
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