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Louisiana
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 Louisiana.
60Documented
2In custody
56Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Louisiana
Where Louisiana’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1970s 34
2020s 6
1950s 5
1800s 5
1910s 4
1930s 3
Documented cases
60 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Micah Legnon
In Custody
Micah James Legnon, of New Iberia, Louisiana, is a former U.S. Marine and former New Iberia police officer, an...
Kenneth Whitmore
In Custody
Louisiana Black Panther Party organizer from Baton Rouge. Convicted in the 1970s for a Klan-linked killing he...
William Cloud
Released
William Cloud was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Co...
Alton Edwards
Released
Alton Edwards was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Co...
Isaac Edwards
Released
Isaac Edwards was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Co...
Tyrone Edwards
Released
Tyrone Edwards was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National C...
George Eustis Jr.
Released
George Eustis Jr. was secretary to the Confederate diplomatic mission of James M. Mason and John Slidell. He w...
Joseph Harper
Released
Joseph Harper, from Winnfield, Louisiana, was convicted for circulating apamphlet entitled " The Issue of the...
Kenyatta Huggins
Released
Federal conspiracy to commit arson; Baton Rouge building arson spree, May-June 2020. Sentence: 18 months feder...
Leroy Jones
Released
Leroy Jones was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Comm...
Robert Hillary King
Released
Robert Hillary King is part of the Angola 3, three Black Panthers put in solitary confinement for decades in A...
Milton Martin
Released
Milton Martin was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Co...
Kamryn Pipes
Released
Kamryn Pipes is an activist from Louisiana who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Trai...
Malik Rahim
Released
Malik Rahim, born Donald Guyton on December 17, 1947 in Algiers, Louisiana, was the defense minister of the Ne...
John Slidell
Released
John Slidell was a New York-born Louisiana politician and former U.S. senator who became a Confederate diploma...
Herman Wallace
Released
Herman Wallace is part of the Angola 3, three men who successfully started the first Black Panther Party chapt...
Arden Wells
Released
Arden Wells, a frequent Facebook critic of the Tangipahoa Parish sheriff, was arrested in July 2025 in Amite C...
Albert Woodfox
Released
Albert Woodfox is part of the Angola 3, three Black Panthers, put in solitary confinement for decades in Angol...
Elaine Young
Released
Elaine Young was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the National Com...
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Ronald Ailsworth
Released
Ronald Ailsworth was one of the three organizers (with Steve Green and Harold Holmes) who established the Nati...
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S. L. Alexander
Released
Listed in primary RNA sources as one of the 11 arrested in the August 18, 1971 raid. Identified in the Provisi...
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Victor Aronson
Released
Victor Aronson, an ILD organizer in New Orleans, was arrested in simultaneous late-1929 raids on seamen's head...
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Shelly Batiste
Released
Shelly Batiste was an inmate of the Orleans Parish Prison Annex in New Orleans who, on October 27, 1971, joine...
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Catherine Bournes
Released
Catherine Bournes — her name also appears in the record as Bourns and Bourne — was a member of the New Orleans...
Institutions in Louisiana
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Louisiana that appear in the census’s case files.
Orleans Parish PrisonNew Orleans, Louisiana
20 cases
Louisiana State PenitentiaryAngola, Louisiana
6 cases
ICE DetentionJena, Louisiana
3 cases
Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola)Angola, Louisiana
3 cases
U.S. District Court, Middle District of LouisianaBaton Rouge, Louisiana
2 cases
Pollock FCIPollock, Louisiana
1 case
Oakdale II FCIOakdale, Louisiana
1 case
FCI OakdaleOakdale, Louisiana
1 case