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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.
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Stanley Magruder
Released
Stanley Magruder was a conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Joann Malone
Released
A Roman Catholic nun and member of the Sisters of Loretto (a schoolteacher, formerly teaching in Montgomery, A...
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Robert Manewitz
Released
Robert Manewitz was one of five St. Louis Smith Act defendants convicted in 1956 of conspiring to advocate the...
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Matthew A. McLoughlin
Released
Matthew A. McLoughlin was secretary-treasurer of Cleaning & Dye House Workers' Union Local 20 (AFL) in St. Lou...
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Marcus A. Murphy
Released
Marcus A. Murphy was a Black Communist Party defendant indicted in St. Louis in 1953 under the Smith Act. The...
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Marcus Murphy
Released
Marcus Murphy was one of the five St. Louis Smith Act defendants convicted in 1956 of conspiring to advocate r...
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Allen Randolph
Released
Allen Randolph was a Missouri labor militant jailed on a strike / sedition charge in 1936–37, defended by the...
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Nihad Rosic
Released
Nihad Rosic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
Case...
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Mediha Medy Salkicevic
Released
Mediha Medy Salkicevic was part of a group of Bosnian immigrants who raised money for terrorists in Iraq and S...
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Robert Scott
Released
Robert Scott was a Missouri labor militant jailed on a strike / sedition charge in 1936–37, defended by the IL...
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Antonia Sentner
Released
Antonia Sentner of St. Louis was harassed with deportation proceedings as a hostage for her husband, UE organi...
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William Sentner
Released
William Sentner was a regional leader of the United Electrical Workers (UE) and a Communist prosecuted under t...
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Damian Smith-Birge
Released
Damian Smith-Birge, 26, of Neosho MO, called the Pennsylvania State Police on November 18, 2021 and made threa...
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Nautica Turner
Released
On June 1, 2020 Nautica Turner, 27, took lighter fluid and began pouring it on the 7-Eleven at 201 N. 17th Str...
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Elizabeth Watkins
Released
Elizabeth Watkins began serving a prison term on September 13, 1918, in Missouri State Penitentiary.
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Jerome White-Bey
Jerome White-Bey is an anarchist organizer — a "social" prisoner who became a dedicated activist behind bars a...
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Jesse L. Wingert
Released
Jesse L. Wingert was a conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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