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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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Essex Smith
Released
Essex Smith was a Cleveland organizer associated with the local National Committee to Combat Fascism. On Septe...
J
Jacob Blake Sr.
Released
Jacob Blake Sr., father of Jacob Blake Jr. and a founder of Families United Against Police Brutality, was arre...
M
Marshall Stanley
Released
Marshall Stanley was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
H
Harry Steckler
Harry Steckler was jailed following police action against a Young Communist League meeting at Lincoln Park in...
J
Joe Stern
Released
Joe Stern was cited for contempt after refusing to answer questions before the Ohio Un-American Activities Com...
S
Shorty Stevenson
Released
Shorty Stevenson was a Steel Workers' Organizing Committee leader arrested with roughly 200 strikers on June 2...
G
George S. Studebaker
Released
George S. Studebaker was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War...
F
Fred Sulvaskey
Fred Sulvaskey, also printed Sulvasky and identified in the report as Frank Sylvester, was a thirty-eight-year...
P
Peter Suto
Peter Suto was a Detroit IWW supporter reported arrested in connection with the union.
Printed page 14 identi...
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Levi S. Swartzendruber
Released
Levi S. Swartzendruber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-m...
I
Ignatz Szteklek
Released
Ignatz Szteklek was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
A
Agnes Tankovich
Agnes Tankovich was a nineteen-year-old miner’s daughter active on coal-strike picket lines in the Fairpoint s...
E
Emily Terry
Emily Terry, a biracial childcare worker from Cleveland, was arrested at the July 4, 2022 Akron protest near t...
C
Charles Thiemann
Charles Thiemann is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy to vi...
A
Alfred Thomas
Released
Alfred Thomas was 18 when Cleveland police arrested him on July 23, 1968 after the Glenville shootout. He was...
A
Arthur Tiedtke
Arthur Tiedtke is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy to viol...
M
Mary Topovich
Released
Mary Topovich was a foreign-born Cleveland resident targeted in a November 1953 McCarran-Walter Act roundup ov...
H
Harry E. Townsley
Released
Harry E. Townsley was a Socialist from Columbus, Ohio. Harry E. Townsley was convicted for distributing litera...
P
Priscilla Treska
Released
Priscilla Treska was a Cleveland Montessori teacher, Catholic peace activist, and member of the Inter-Religiou...
D
David A. Troyer
Released
David A. Troyer was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
R
Roscoe Vandeventer
Roscoe Vandeventer was a Columbus Unemployed Council member arrested for collecting funds for the Ohio hunger...
D
Dominick Venturato
Released
Dominick Venturato was president of United Mine Workers Local 3953 at Oco, Ohio. He was arrested in 1922 after...
S
Sidney Watkins
Sidney Watkins was a defendant in the Little Steel strike bombing prosecution in Warren, Ohio. He remained jai...
D
Dennis Weeks
Released
Dennis Weeks was imprisoned for conscientious refusal of military service during the 1960s.
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