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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 Ohio.
195Documented
3In custody
189Released
Eras of repression in Ohio
Where Ohio’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 54
1950s 31
1800s 30
2020s 26
1930s 14
2010s 9
Documented cases
195 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan
In Custody
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, born Carlos Sanders, is an Imam and an Ohio death row prisoner sentenced for his alle...
Namir Abdul Mateen
In Custody
Black Muslim prisoner at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, sentenced to death for the killing of correction...
Brandon Pack
In Custody
Brandon Pack is an Ohio man who was arrested during George Floyd/BLM protests in Columbus in May 2020 for shoo...
Lil Andrews
Released
Lil Andrews, the Young Communist League district organizer for Ohio, was convicted under Ohio's criminal-syndi...
Martino Andrews
Released
Martino Andrews is an Ohio activist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson for torching a county van...
Graham Ball
Released
Graham Ball, 26, March 2024 Boeing Heath OH blockade defendant. Pleaded guilty; ~30 days.
Brandon Baxter
Released
Brandon Baxter was an activist associated with the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30, 201...
Louis Budenz
Released
Louis Budenz was a strike leader in the Toledo Auto-Lite strike of May 1934, when thirty-one strikers were cha...
John Anthony Copeland Jr.
John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a free Black abolitionist from Oberlin, Ohio, where he had been involved in the...
Gregory Curry
Gregory Curry is freedom fighter and a current inmate who faced brutal retaliation from the Ohio Dept. of Reha...
Barbara Curzi-Laaman
Released
Barbara Curzi-Laaman was a member of the United Freedom Front and the partner of Jaan Karl Laaman. She was arr...
John Douglas
Released
John Douglas, from Zanesville, Ohio, began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 26, 1918. He was convi...
John E. Downey
Released
John E. Downey was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
Nancy Epling
Released
Nancy Jane Epling, 32, was one of five protesters who blocked access roads to a Boeing facility in Heath OH on...
Ahmed Evans
Released
Black nationalist leader convicted of first-degree murder for the July 1968 Glenville shootout in Cleveland wi...
O. E. Gordon
Released
O. E. Gordon, a shoemaker from Columbus, Ohio, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and sentenced to...
Shakir Hamoodi
Released
Shakir Hamoodi was a leader in the Muslim community of Columbus Ohio and outspoken critic of the Iraq war who...
Anthony Hayne
Released
Anthony Hayne was one of five men arrested in 2012 after a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover operatio...
Tom Johnson
Released
Tom Johnson, a Trade Union Unity League and Metal Workers' Industrial League organizer from Cleveland, was con...
J. Henry Kruse
Released
J. Henry Kruse, of Cincinnati, Ohio, began serving a prison sentence on September 7, 1918. He served in Mounds...
Keith LaMar
Released
Keith LaMar, who has taken the name Bomani Shakur in prison, is an Ohio death row prisoner whose case is among...
Charles Langston
Released
Charles Henry Langston, a free Black abolitionist and educator (and grandfather of the poet Langston Hughes),...
Raymond Luc Levasseur
Released
Raymond Luc Levasseur was a leading figure in the United Freedom Front, which operated as an underground cell-...
Deric Lostutter
Released
Deric Lostutter was a hacker affiliated with the group Anonymous who helped bring attention to the Steubenvill...
Institutions in Ohio
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Ohio that appear in the census’s case files.
Summit County JailAkron, Ohio
12 cases
U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioCleveland, Ohio
4 cases
Licking County JailNewark, Ohio
3 cases
Elkton FCILisbon, Ohio
2 cases
Ohio State PenitentiaryYoungstown, Ohio
2 cases
Mansfield Youth Center
2 cases
Canton WorkhouseCanton, Ohio
2 cases
Kemper Barracks military prisonCincinnati, Ohio
1 case