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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.
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Gabriella (Ella) Antolini
Released
Gabriella (Ella) Antolini was an eighteen-year-old anarchist and Italian immigrant residing in New England. Ga...
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R. M. Armstrong
Released
R. M. Armstrong appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Georg...
L
Lambert P. Ayres
Released
Lambert P. Ayres appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
J
Joseph Baltrusaitis
Joseph Baltrusaitis was a Lithuanian worker from St. Louis imprisoned at Leavenworth after distributing Commun...
H
Henry Barron
Released
Henry Barron appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E...
D
Duane Bean
Released
Duane Bean was a Missouri Peace Planting participant actually confined at Cass County Jail in 1988. The partic...
W
W. B. Beasley
Released
W. B. Beasley appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
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Henry C. Belles
Released
Henry C. Belles appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Georg...
H
Harding Benjamin
Released
Harding Benjamin appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
J
J. Bennett
Released
J. Bennett appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E....
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Peter Berger
Peter Berger was imprisoned at Leeds Prison Farm after being injured on a city relief job, according to a Kans...
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Edward Brand
Released
Edward Brand was a conscientious objector from Missouri imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
J
John A. Brownlee
Released
John A. Brownlee appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
W
William Burnley
William Burnley, a Kansas City union organizer, was named among workers arrested with A. W. Berry during the r...
A
Alfred Burns
Released
Alfred Burns was identified in contemporary rosters of prisoners confined for conscientious or antiwar resista...
J
James E. Burr
Released
James E. Burr was an abolitionist ministry student at the Mission Institute in Quincy, Illinois. He joined Ala...
W
W. G. Burr
W. G. Burr is identified in Marshall, a Booneville bank cashier, as one of five civilians seized with minister...
J
Joseph W. Burton
Released
Joseph W. Burton appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Geor...
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M. M. Burton
Released
M. M. Burton appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E...
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W. L. Byrne
Released
W. L. Byrne appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E....
J
John Carroll
Released
John Carroll appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George E...
W
William Caruthers
William Caruthers was one of seven Black workers arrested May 26, 1936 during a St. Louis relief-office protes...
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Sidney Chamberlain
Released
Sidney Chamberlain appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal Ge...
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Frank J. Chase
Released
Frank J. Chase appears in the official civilian-prisoner return prepared by Saint Louis provost-marshal George...
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