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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.

197Documented
3In custody
191Released

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

197 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

A
Amost L. Hitchcock
Released
Amost L. Hitchcock, a Socialist from Sandusky, Ohio, began serving his ten-year prison sentence on June 28, 19...
M
Melvin Hupman
Released
Melvin Hupman was a UE local leader in Cincinnati convicted in January 1954 of falsely swearing a Taft-Hartley...
T
Teddy Jackoski
Released
Teddy Jackoski was an Ohio coal miner convicted of assault with intent to murder during the 1928 Ohio miners'...
L
Leslie Jackson
Released
Co-defendant of Fred Ahmed Evans in the Glenville Shootout — the July 23, 1968 armed confrontation in the Glen...
P
Paul Kassay
Released
Paul Kassay was a mechanic at the Goodyear Zeppelin works in Akron, Ohio — then building the dirigible Akron —...
D
David Katz
Released
David Katz, husband of Frieda Katz, was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953, in the Ohio Smith Act roundu...
F
Frieda Katz
Released
Frieda Katz was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953, in the Ohio Smith Act roundup during the McCarthy er...
E
Edward A. Kolbe
Released
Edward A. Kolbe appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
I
Irvin C. Leichty
Released
Irvin C. Leichty was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
P
Patricia Gros Levasseur
Released
Patricia Gros Levasseur was part of the United Freedom Front, a clandestine left-wing organization active in t...
S
Sierra Lewis
Released
Sierra Renee Lewis is an Akron, Ohio resident who was arrested in the early morning hours of July 4, 2022, dur...
M
Mike Lindway
Released
Mike Lindway was an Industrial Workers of the World militant in Ohio whose 1936 prosecution was denounced by t...
W
Walter Lohman
Released
Walter Lohman was a rank-and-file member of the United Electrical Workers in Dayton, Ohio, convicted in Septem...
W
Walter C. Lohman Jr.
Released
Walter C. Lohman Jr. was an officer of UE Local 768 in Dayton, Ohio, convicted in 1949 of filing a false non-C...
B
Brandon Michael Althof Long
Released
In Cleveland, OH, Brandon Michael Althof Long, 23, and Devon Bryce Poland, 22, were both charged with conspira...
A
Abner Loveland
Released
Abner Loveland was a Wellington, Ohio defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker Jo...
M
Meredith Lowell
Released
Meredith Lowell, age 35, was charged in 2019 with attempted murder, two counts felonious assault, and aggravat...
H
Hyman Lumer
Released
Hyman Lumer was a Cleveland Communist and economist, one of the eight indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hart...
R
Roy Mahoney
Released
Roy Mahoney was a Black worker of East Liverpool, Ohio, a leader of the February 1931 unemployed demonstration...
J
John Mandeville
Released
John Mandeville was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On May...
D
Damean Martin
Released
Damean Martin was arrested in the early hours of July 4, 2022, in Akron, Ohio, during mass protests that erupt...
H
Henry Dallas Martin
Released
Henry Dallas Martin was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
J
J. C. Masten
Released
J. C. Masten, of Cincinnati, Ohio, began serving a prison sentence on September 6, 1918.
H
Hunter Mattin
Released
Hunter Mattin, age 20, an Ohio State University student, was arrested April 15, 2021 for aggravated burglary d...

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