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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.
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Edward A. Nightingale
Released
Edward A. Nightingale was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
H
Henry D. Niles
Released
Henry D. Niles was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On May...
A
Anthony Novak
Released
Anthony Novak is an Ohio man arrested in 2016 after creating a parody Facebook page about the Parma Police Dep...
S
Steve Novak
Steve Novak, militant leader of the strike, was among twelve Cleveland striking newsboys freed through the Int...
W
William Nusbaum
Released
William Nussbaum was a Mennonite conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
A
Albert S. Nussbaum
Released
Albert S. Nussbaum was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Okey Odel
Okey Odel was a rank-and-file leader of the onion-pickers’ strike near McGuffey, Hardin County, Ohio. John Mar...
O
Okey Odell
Okey Odell led the Hardin County onion workers strike and presided over its newly chartered union. Jamieson re...
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John Orawiec
John Orawiec was the eighth suspect in the 1937 Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He wa...
K
Kenneth Osthimer
Released
Kenneth Osthimer, also spelled Ostheimer, was an Unemployed Council organizer arrested on the picket line duri...
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Lester G. Ott
Released
Lester G. Ott was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
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Evan O’Reilly
Released
Evan O’Reilly, a community organizer from Cleveland, was arrested during the July 4, 2022 Akron protest organi...
D
David Palmer
Released
David Palmer was one of two Black boys jailed after a nine-year-old girl in Massillon, Ohio, said that a Black...
S
Sam Pollack
Sam was named among four Toledo pickets arrested May 7, 1934 for deliberately defying Judge Stuart’s Auto-Lite...
F
Frank Postick
Frank was a coal-strike prisoner signing a June 26, 1931 letter from Belmont County Jail.
T
Talmadge Raley
Released
Talmadge Raley was convicted of contempt after refusing to answer questions from the Ohio Un-American Activiti...
W
Wayne Raney
Wayne Raney was a Black prisoner and prisoners’ rights hunger striker at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facili...
W
William Reamy
William Reamy was one of five members of a Cincinnati unemployed-workers’ relief delegation arrested on Octobe...
S
Sam Reed
Released
Sam Reed was a union member and former Communist Party official prosecuted in the Cleveland Taft-Hartley consp...
W
Wayne Reed
Wayne Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the July 1978 confrontation in which Officer B...
B
Bill Reich
Bill was an AWP member and Ohio Unemployed League educational director, reported actually held in Columbus Wor...
E
Eric Reinthaler
Released
Eric Jerome Reinthaler was a former officer of United Electrical Workers Local 735 in Cleveland. Federal prose...
A
Andrew Remes
Released
Andrew Remes was one of the eight defendants indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case, a...
F
Frank Ries
Frank Ries is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy to violate...
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