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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.
A. Philip Randolph
Released
A. Philip Randolph was a Black socialist labor organizer, civil-rights leader, and co-editor (with Chandler Ow...
Timothy Reed
Released
Timothy Reed was known as “Little Rock” and became known as a Native American prisoner-rights advocate and cri...
Christopher Reynolds
Released
Christopher was an activist from Ohio arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee...
James E. Robinson
Released
James E. Robinson, of Akron OH, used the Twitter handle AkronPhoenix420 to claim DDoS attacks on multiple gove...
Charles Emil Ruthenberg
Released
Charles Emil Ruthenberg was born to Prussian Lutheran immigrants in Cleveland; joined the SP in 1909 and edite...
Fred J. Saal
Released
Fred J. Saal was from Cleveland, Ohio. Fred J. Saal began serving a ten-year prison sentence for "seditious ut...
Max Sandin
Released
Max Sandin was a Russian-Jewish immigrant living in Cleveland. Max Sandin was a WWI absolutist who refused all...
Mark Alden Schmucker
Released
Mark was a Mennonite biology senior at Goshen College from Alliance, Ohio, who mailed a letter to Selective Se...
John H. Scott
Released
John H. Scott was a Black harness-maker in Oberlin, Ohio. John H. Scott was one of the twenty men jailed for t...
Jacob R. Shipherd
Released
Jacob R. Shipherd was one of the twenty men committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for the 1858 Oberlin–Welling...
James Slovik
Released
James Slovik was the secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, Local 200, from Cleveland, Oh...
DeCourcy Squire
Released
DeCourcy Squire was a Quaker civil-rights and antiwar activist who after being arrested at a Vietnam War prote...
Joshua Stafford
Released
Joshua Stafford was an activist connected to the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30, 2012...
Lee Donald Stern
Released
Lee Donald Stern was an American Quaker pacifist imprisoned during World War II after refusing to report for C...
Connor Stevens
Released
Connor Stevens was an activist involved in the Occupy Cleveland movement who was arrested on April 30, 2012 as...
Bob Swann
Released
Robert Swann was an American peace activist and community land trust pioneer. A conscientious objector during...
John Swinglish
Released
John Swinglish was from Cleveland, Ohio, living in Washington DC and age 28 at indictment; he was a Navy veter...
Mourad Topalian
Released
Mourad Topalian, suspected leader of the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), was sentenced Janu...
Caroline Foulke Urie
Released
Caroline Foulke Urie was a Quaker relief worker and founding member of the Peacemakers tax-refusal committee....
Clement Vallandigham
Released
Clement Vallandigham was a former U.S. Representative from Ohio and the leader of the antiwar 'Copperhead' fac...
Loring Wadsworth
Released
Loring Wadsworth was a Wellington, Ohio man among the twenty committed to the Cuyahoga County Jail for the 185...
Alfred Wagenknecht
Released
Alfred Wagenknecht was a Marxist organizer whose early activism included organizing “street meetings” and part...
Ed Walker
Ed Walker was arrested on November 11, 1977.
Socialist Worker reported that Cincinnati UPS driver and Teamste...
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall
Released
Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall was a Black shoemaker in Oberlin, Ohio and brother-in-law of John Mercer Langston...
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