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Kentucky
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 Kentucky.
225Documented
2In custody
148Released
Eras of repression in Kentucky
Where Kentucky’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 138
1970s 21
1960s 19
1950s 9
1800s 9
1980s 8
Recent dashboard entries from Kentucky
The newest published events and reporting located in Kentucky, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Taylor Marshall arrested on felony charge over Roebling Bridge anti-ICE protest
Protest
Hundreds protest after the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Lexington
Protest
An anti-ICE protest fills Noble Park in Paducah after an ICE shooting
Protest
Police arrest more than a dozen at anti-ICE Roebling Bridge march
Protest
UC students detained during Roebling Bridge ICE protest
Arrest
Student journalist Lucas Griffith arrested covering an anti-ICE march in Covington, KY (felony rioting count dropped; convicted of failure to disperse)
Protest
A rally for an ICE-detained 18-year-old outside Rep. Brett Guthrie's office
Protest
Several thousand rally at Metro Hall for a Louisville No Kings protest
Documented cases
225 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Chester Poore
Released
Chester Poore was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner imprisoned following the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts....
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Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers was a miner who described threats in the account of the Dreiser hearings at Pineville.
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Don Pratt
Don Pratt was jailed on draft-refusal charges and, alongside Joe Mulloy, spent six weeks in jail before being...
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Mack Pruett
Released
Mack Pruett was a conscientious objector from Kentucky imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Alex Reed
Released
Alex Reed was a Harlan miner jailed in the roundup after the 5 May 1931 Battle of Evarts, one of the more than...
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Charlie Reed
Charlie Reed was one of eight NMU miners arrested at Arjay Saturday, June 25, 1932 under an old federal injunc...
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Walter Rellis
Released
Walter Rellis was a College of the City of New York student who refused to answer questions about Communist af...
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C. W. Reno
Released
C. W. Reno was a Harlan County, Kentucky miner serving a life sentence on a frame-up murder charge arising fro...
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Jim Reynolds
Released
Jim Reynolds was a Harlan County miner prosecuted after the May 1931 Battle of Evarts. He was convicted of mur...
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C. H. Rice
Released
C. H. Rice was a lumberjack from Owenton, Kentucky. C. H. Rice was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago,...
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James B. Roberts
James B. Roberts was named in the March 14, 1932 Daily Worker appeal for the imprisoned Kentucky National Mine...
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Jim Roberts
Jim was a strike supporter held in Middlesboro jail during the mine-strike repression.
The March 11 dispatch...
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Charles Rumford Walker
Charles Rumford Walker was named among those indicted for criminal syndicalism after the November 1931 Dreiser...
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David Rumon
Released
David Rumon appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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F. G. Sampson
Released
F. G. Sampson was arrested on March 14, 1961.
The Rev. F. G. Sampson, vice-president of the Louisville NAACP,...
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Silas Saylor
Released
Silas Saylor was an ordained preacher of the Pentecostal Church from Beverly, Kentucky. Silas Saylor was convi...
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C. B. Schoberg
Released
C. B. Schoberg was from Covington, Kentucky. C. B. Schoberg was convicted of making disloyal statements and be...
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Silas Serge
Released
Silas Serge was a Harlan-area coal miner indicted for murder in the frame-ups that followed the 5 May 1931 Bat...
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Marla Seymour
Released
Marla Seymour was a member of the Lexington, Kentucky lesbian-feminist and gay-liberation collective subpoenae...
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Cecil Shadrick
Released
Cecil Shadrick was a Harlan-area coal miner indicted for murder in the frame-ups that followed the 5 May 1931...
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Charles Shadrick
Released
Charles Shadrick was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner prosecuted after the May 5, 1931 Battle of Evarts. H...
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Elbert Shadrick
Released
Elbert Shadrick was a Harlan County, Kentucky coal miner jailed and indicted for murder after the May 5, 1931...
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Steve Shaffer
Released
Steve Shaffer appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
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Ben Simmons
Released
Ben Simmons was a Louisville Seven defendant supported by the local Black Panther defense campaign. The prosec...
Institutions in Kentucky
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Kentucky that appear in the census’s case files.
Harlan County JailHarlan, Kentucky
18 cases
Ashland FCIDedham, Kentucky
13 cases
Bell County JailPineville, Kentucky
13 cases
FCI LexingtonLexington, Kentucky
5 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, AshlandAshland, Kentucky
5 cases
FCI AshlandAshland, Kentucky
3 cases
Federal Medical Center, Lexington (women's)Lexington, Kentucky
2 cases
FPC LexingtonLexington, Kentucky
2 cases