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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.
348Documented
5In custody
231Released
Eras of repression in Ohio
Where Ohio’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 83
1910s 66
2020s 40
1950s 31
1800s 31
1920s 23
Recent dashboard entries from Ohio
The newest published events and reporting located in Ohio, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Ohio grand jury declines to indict Cody Morelock over alleged destruction of a Flock camera
Prosecution
Keith LaMar speaks from Ohio death row after a three-year execution reprieve
Protest
Protesters rally against mail-in voting bill outside Ohio Statehouse
Other
FBI raids Ohio voting rights group
Other
FBI Raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative in Apparent Intimidation Campaign
Other
Ohio voting rights group facing criminal fraud investigation, sources say
Other
Ohio pro-democracy organization raided by FBI
Protest
Ohio protesters push for bill to make child marriages illegal
Documented cases
348 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Gregory Curry
In Custody
Gregory Curry is freedom fighter and a current inmate who faced brutal retaliation from the Ohio Dept. of Reha...
Siddique Abdullah Hasan
In Custody
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, born Carlos Sanders, is an Imam and an Ohio death row prisoner sentenced for his alle...
Keith LaMar
In Custody
Keith LaMar, who has taken the name Bomani Shakur in prison, is an Ohio death row prisoner whose case is among...
Namir Abdul Mateen
In Custody
Namir was a Black Muslim prisoner at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, sentenced to death for the killing o...
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, also known as Lillian Andrews, was the Young Communist League district organizer in Ohio. Police...
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, 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...
Robert T. Begin
Released
Robert T. Begin was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969 and...
Andy Blahovec
Andy Blahovec was a miner and supporter of the Save-the-Union movement, imprisoned in Cadiz, Ohio, for violati...
Eli Boies
Released
Eli Boies was a Wellington, Ohio abolitionist among the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for t...
Joseph Brandt
Released
Joseph Brandt, born Sam Brustein in Poland, was a Spanish Civil War veteran, wartime paratrooper and Ohio Comm...
Louis Budenz
Released
Louis Francis Budenz was a labor organizer and executive secretary of the American Workers Party during the 19...
Lotta Burke
Released
Lotta Burke was a Cincinnati garment worker, labour leader, suffragist, Socialist, pacifist and women's-rights...
Bob Burke
Released
Robert “Bob” Burke was an American Student Union activist and Steel Workers Organizing Committee organizer in...
Simeon Bushnell
Released
Simeon Bushnell was an Oberlin, Ohio bookseller and one of the leaders of the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue o...
Leon Callow
Released
Leon Callow was a Greek-born steelworker in Niles, Ohio who had lived in the United States for 39 years and su...
Martin Chancey
Released
Martin Chancey was a Cleveland translation-service owner who had been tried and convicted with five others und...
Tony Cicagna
Tony Cicagna was a miner and supporter of the Save-the-Union movement, imprisoned in Cadiz, Ohio, for violatin...
John Anthony Copeland Jr.
Released
John Anthony Copeland Jr. was a free Black abolitionist from Oberlin, Ohio, where he had been involved in the...
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...
Brian DeRouen
Released
Brian DeRouen was a University of Dayton graduate theology student and peace-and-justice organizer who joined...
John Douglas
Released
John Douglas was from Zanesville, Ohio. John Douglas began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 26, 19...
Institutions in Ohio
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Ohio that appear in the census’s case files.
Cuyahoga County JailCleveland, Ohio
21 cases
Summit County JailAkron, Ohio
12 cases
Camp ChaseColumbus, Ohio
6 cases
U.S. District Court, Northern District of OhioCleveland, Ohio
4 cases
Camp MansfieldMansfield, Ohio
4 cases
Hamilton City JailHamilton, Ohio
4 cases
Licking County JailNewark, Ohio
3 cases
Elkton FCILisbon, Ohio
2 cases