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Nebraska
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 Nebraska.
64Documented
0In custody
57Released
Eras of repression in Nebraska
Where Nebraska’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 38
1950s 7
1970s 6
1930s 5
2020s 4
2000s 1
Documented cases
64 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
George Adams
Released
George Adams was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over 18 mon...
Gerald "Jerry" Ebner
Released
Jerry Ebner was a Catholic peace activist associated with the Catholic Worker Movement, known for using nonvio...
John D. Ford
Released
John D. Ford was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighte...
Henry Harris
Released
Henry Harris was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighte...
Frank LaMere
Released
Frank LaMere was a Winnebago activist and Nebraska political leader known for indigenous-rights advocacy and h...
Anthony Ladd
Released
Anthony Ladd, 45, was arrested January 12, 2022 after threatening a pro-life advocate with a section of rebar...
Bradford Lyttle
Released
Bradford Lyttle is an American pacifist organizer whose arrests span more than half a century, from draft refu...
Tyler Maple
Arson of a Lincoln gas station during May 30 2020 protest. Sentence: 4 years prison. Verified via public court...
Ed Poindexter
Edward Poindexter was a Vietnam war veteran and a member of the Black Panther Party who was arrested for the k...
David Rice
David Rice and his co-defendant, Ed Poindexter, were Black Panter members who were charged with the killing of...
Marjorie Swann
Released
Marjorie Swann was a pacifist who served a six-month federal prison sentence for the 1959 'Omaha Action' prote...
Oscar Swanson
Released
Oscar Swanson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eight...
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Ross Anderson
Released
Ross Anderson, 59, of Americus, Georgia, was one of the pacifists who in July 1959 climbed the fence at the Me...
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C. E. Bates
Released
C. E. Bates was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over 18 mont...
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Roy Becker
Released
Roy Becker was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighteen...
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Bob Yellow Bird
Nebraska state coordinator of the American Indian Movement; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.30 (1976) reports tha...
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Jo An Yellow Bird
Wife of Nebraska AIM coordinator Bob Yellow Bird; The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.30 (1976) reports she was kicke...
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Floyd Booth
Released
Floyd Booth was arrested with Mother Bloor at the 1934 Loup City, Nebraska strike and sentenced to thirty days...
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D. M. Carr
Released
D. M. Carr appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...
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James Cronin
Released
James Cronin was sent by the IWW to the Scottsbluff area of Nebraska in October 1919 to investigate the arrest...
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Mack Denny
Released
Mack Denny appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...
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Edward F. Dicks
Released
Edward F. Dicks was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eig...
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Peter P. Dirksen
Released
Peter P. Dirksen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Nebraska imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Steven M. Fitch
Released
Steven M. Fitch is a Council Bluffs, Iowa resident who was found carrying a Molotov cocktail during BLM protes...
Institutions in Nebraska
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Nebraska that appear in the census’s case files.
Nebraska State PenitentiaryLincoln, Nebraska
3 cases
Lancaster County District Court
1 case
Fort Robinson
1 case