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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.
264Documented
4In custody
212Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Missouri
Where Missouri’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1800s 139
1910s 22
1960s 21
2010s 18
1930s 18
1980s 13
Recent dashboard entries from Missouri
The newest published events and reporting located in Missouri, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Two residents arrested at a Springfield City Council meeting amid protests over Flock cameras
Arrest
Data-center moratorium protester arrested during a march from the Missouri Capitol to the Governor’s Mansion
Arrest
Dominic O'Connor arrested while protesting Columbia's Flock surveillance cameras
Prosecution
Video evidence clears activist of felony charge
Protest
St. Joseph residents pack a City Council meeting to protest a proposed data center
Protest
Protest, summit highlight divide over data centers in Missouri
Protest
Nurses at Research Medical Center to hold rally demanding immediate action on unsafe patient care conditions
Protest
Five arrested disrupting St. Louis mayor's State of the City
Documented cases
264 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...
Mike Avery
Released
Mike Avery was arrested in May 2020.
On May 25-29, 2020 Michael J. Avery, 28, was charged with rioting after...
Brandon Orlando Baldwin
Released
Brandon Orlando Baldwin, NBPP leader; with co-defendant Olajuwon Davis, conspired during the November 2014 Fer...
Casey Brezik
Released
Casey Brezik is a Kansas City–area anarchist who slashed a community-college dean in 2010 at an event where Mi...
Earl Browder
Released
Earl Browder was a trade union activist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1917, Browder was convicted of failure...
Ralph W. Browder
Released
Ralph W. Browder was also known as Ralph Waldo Browder. Ralph W. Browder was a Kansas City socialist and a bro...
Bill Browder
Released
William E. Browder was also known as Will or Bill Browder. William E. Browder was a Kansas City socialist and...
Larry Cloud-Morgan
Released
Larry Cloud-Morgan was an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa who combined Native community ad...
Don Cox
Released
Don Cox, was an early member of the leadership of the Black Panther Party who held the title of Field Marshal....
Wayne Cryts
Released
Wayne Cryts, born in Missouri, was a soybean farmer and member of the American Agriculture Movement who became...
Olajuwon Davis
Released
Olajuwon Davis, NBPP leader; co-defendant of Brandon Baldwin in the November 2014 Ferguson explosive-device /...
Charles Doy
Released
Charles Doy was the nineteen-year-old son of Underground Railroad conductor John Doy. He accompanied his fathe...
John Doy
Released
John Doy was an English-born physician, Kansas free-state activist, and Underground Railroad conductor. On Jan...
Dorothy Eber
Released
Dorothy was a Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Po...
William Ehrhard
Released
William Ehrhard was from St. Louis, Missouri. William Ehrhard began serving a prison sentence on June 5, 1918.
James Frederick Forest
Released
James Frederick Forest was a Communist organizer, Army veteran, and chairman of the Missouri Communist Party....
Carl Gleeser
Released
Carl Gleeser was the owner, publisher, editor, printer and distributor of the German-language Kansas City news...
Percy Green II
Released
Percy Green II is a St. Louis civil rights organizer associated with CORE and ACTION. His campaigns challenged...
Dick Gregory
Released
Dick Gregory was a celebrity who used celebrity as a platform for direct participation in civil rights, antiwa...
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic
Released
Ramiz Zijad Hodzic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria...
J.B. Johnson
Released
J.B. Johnson was detained in 1970.
Black St. Louis man facing a life term for the murder of a policeman durin...
Institutions in Missouri
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Missouri that appear in the census’s case files.
Saint Louis Military PrisonSaint Louis, Missouri
127 cases
U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, SpringfieldSpringfield, Missouri
6 cases
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
St. Louis WorkhouseSt. Louis, Missouri
2 cases
United States Medical Center for Federal PrisonersSpringfield, Missouri
2 cases
Missouri State PenitentiaryJefferson City, Missouri
1 case