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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.
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Gilbert Montegut
Released
Gilbert Montegut, 23, was one of the four Angola prisoners charged in the April 1972 killing of prison guard B...
J
John England Morris Jr.
Released
John England Morris Jr., who used the alias Larry Jackson, was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Blac...
B
Betty Powell
Released
Betty Powell was a member of the New Orleans Black Panther Party. During the pre-dawn raid of November 26, 197...
F
Frank Prego
Released
Frank Prego was a Spanish-born ship's stoker and organizer for the IWW's Marine Transport Workers. Arrested du...
R
Raymond Prieur
Released
Raymond Prieur was an inmate of the Orleans Parish Prison Annex in New Orleans who, on October 27, 1971, joine...
V
Vincent Robinson
Released
Vincent Robinson was a member of the Louisiana State Chapter of the Black Panther Party. In September 1971, wh...
J
Johnny Ross
Black youth sentenced to death at age 16 for rape in Louisiana; The Black Panther Vol. 17 no.14 (1977) reports...
G
George Russell
Released
George Russell was a member of the New Orleans Black Panther Party. In November 1970, as he, Harold Holmes, an...
C
Charles Rudolph Scott
Released
Charles Rudolph Scott was a member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party (organized as the Nat...
C
Cleveland Shaw
Released
Cleveland Shaw was an inmate of the Orleans Parish Prison Annex in New Orleans who, on October 27, 1971, joine...
R
Roosevelt Ward
Released
Roosevelt Ward Jr. was a young Black leader of the Labor Youth League prosecuted in New Orleans for failing to...
N
Noel Ó Murchú
Released
Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Oakdale in Louisiana on US federal charges relating to support for the I...
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