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Missouri

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 Missouri.

65Documented
3In custody
59Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Missouri

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

1910s 17 2010s 16 2020s 8 1950s 6 1930s 5 1980s 4

Documented cases

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

Elijah Gantt
In Custody
Elijah Gantt is a St. Louis–area minister who was arrested on August 9, 2024, during protests outside the Ferg...
Fran Thompson
In Custody
Fran Thompson was an environmental activist in Knox County Nebraska who led a number of campaigns against Dist...
Jeffrey Weinhaus
In Custody
Jeffrey Weinhaus was a local blogger and independent newsletter publisher in Crawford County, Missouri, who co...
Jayden Allen
Released
Jayden Allen was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of the...
Earl Browder
Released
Earl Browder was a trade union activist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1917, Browder was convicted of failure...
Larry Cloud-Morgan
Released
An enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa, Cloud‑Morgan combined Native community advocacy with f...
Dorothy Eber
Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prison...
William Ehrhard
Released
William Ehrhard, of St. Louis, Missouri, began serving a prison sentence on June 5, 1918.
Carl Gleeser
Released
Carl Henry Gleeser owned, published, edited, printed and distributed the German-language Kansas City newspaper...
Dick Gregory
Released
Dick Gregory used celebrity as a platform for direct participation in civil rights, antiwar, and later human-r...
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic
Released
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria...
Rev. Carl Kabat
Released
A Catholic priest with the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Kabat became widely known for decades of non...
Rev. Paul Kabat
Released
An Oblate priest and longtime anti-nuclear resister, Kabat is best known for the 1984 “Silo Pruning Hooks” act...
Eric King
Released
Eric King was an anarchist and local artist known to Kansas City police for doing unauthorized politically cha...
Howard Mechanic
Released
Howard Mechanic was a college student at Washington University in St. Louis who attended a protest at his loca...
Kate Richards O'Hare
Released
Kate Richards O'Hare Kate Richards O’Hare was a prominent Socialist Party of America organizer and antiwar spe...
Jermaine Parker
Released
In St. Louis, Jermaine Parker was arrested after a shooting incident that occurred during unrest following the...
Dakota P. Schee
Released
Dakota P. Schee was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of...
Mark Siljander
Released
Mark Siljander was a former Republican congressman from Michigan and an ardent social conservative and fundame...
Joshua Williams
Released
Joshua Williams became known as a young organizer and participant in protests following the 2014 police killin...
K
Khalid Al-Sudanee
Released
Khalid Al-Sudanee allegedly assisted the now-defunct Islamic American Relief Agency in moving money. Case cha...
G
Gabriella (Ella) Antolini
Released
Gabriella (Ella) Antolini, an eighteen-year-old anarchist and Italian immigrant residing in New England, was c...
M
Michael J. Avery
Released
On May 25-29, 2020 Michael J. Avery, 28, was charged with rioting after posting calls to action on Facebook un...
B
Brandon Orlando Baldwin
Released
Brandon Orlando Baldwin, 22, NBPP leader; with co-defendant Olajuwon Davis, conspired during the November 2014...

Institutions in Missouri

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

United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, SpringfieldSpringfield, Missouri
4 cases
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of MissouriSt. Louis, Missouri
3 cases
Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson CityJefferson City, Missouri
2 cases
United States Medical Center for Federal PrisonersSpringfield, Missouri
2 cases
Missouri State PenitentiaryJefferson City, Missouri
1 case
Jefferson City Correctional CenterJefferson City, Missouri
1 case
Jefferson Barracks / Fortress Monroe
1 case
Minuteman silo N5, Whiteman AFB — Good Friday Plowshares Missile Silo Witness
1 case