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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.
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Donald Fortenberry
Released
Donald Fortenberry was a pacifist arrested with Bradford Lyttle in July 1959 for trespassing at the Mead, Nebr...
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Joe Garner
Released
Joe Garner was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighteen...
J
John Hauer
Released
John Hauer, of Fremont, Nebraska, began serving a twenty-year prison sentence for obstructing the draft on Apr...
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Edgar Held
Released
Edgar Held began serving a prison sentence on December 11, 1918, and was released on January 16, 1920, after h...
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Simon Hendrickson
Released
Simon Hendrickson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over e...
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Edward Hibbard
Released
Edward Hibbard was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eigh...
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Frank Hockbarth
Released
Frank Hockbarth appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
E
Elbert H. Hostetler
Released
Elbert H. Hostetler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Nebraska imprisoned during World War I. Court-...
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Carl Jacobs
Released
Carl Jacobs was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eightee...
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Thomas A. Jenkins
Released
Thomas A. Jenkins was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over e...
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Mark Kinney
Released
Mark Kinney was sentenced to six months in federal prison for repeated trespass at the U.S. Strategic Command...
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Gerhard J. Klippenstein
Released
Gerhard J. Klippenstein was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Nebraska imprisoned during World War I. Co...
A
Artell Lancaster
Released
Artell Lancaster was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over ei...
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E. W. Latchem
Released
E. W. Latchem was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eight...
E
Ed Lazar
Released
Ed Lazar, a 24-year-old New York City pacifist, was jailed for six months for antinuclear civil disobedience a...
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Harry Lux
Released
Harry Lux was a leader of the Nebraska farm revolt held in solitary confinement on shifting charges during the...
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Harry McDonald
Released
Harry McDonald was arrested with Mother Bloor at the 1934 Loup City, Nebraska strike and sentenced to thirty d...
G
George Samuel Miller
Released
George Samuel Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector who was inducted at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on July 23,...
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Pat Monahan
Released
Pat Monahan was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eightee...
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John Nielson
Released
John Nielson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eighte...
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Nicholas Olson
Released
Nicholas Olson, 25, is an activist from Nebraska who was among the first five people arrested at the Stop Cop...
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John Parson
Released
John Parson was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of FWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over eightee...
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Walter Pasewalk
Released
Walter Pasewalk was arrested in November 1917 in the roundup of IWW members in Omaha, Nebraska. After over 18...
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Alex Poindexter
Omaha activist and member of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (a BPP affiliate), convicted with David...
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