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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.
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John McClellan
John McClellan was a Toledo Panther/NCCF member jailed in the William Miscannon killing prosecution. Two trial...
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Maurice McCrackin
Released
The Rev. Maurice McCrackin was a Cincinnati minister who for ten years refused to pay federal income taxes bec...
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Catherine Melville
Released
A former Roman Catholic nun and wife of former Maryknoll priest Arthur Melville, Catherine was one of the nine...
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Bernard Meyer
Released
A Roman Catholic priest (associated with Cleveland, Ohio), Rev. Bernard Meyer was one of the nine who raided t...
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Lawrence E. Mitchner
Released
Lawrence E. Mitchner was a Quaker conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Anna H. Morgan
Released
Anna H. Morgan — known to supporters as 'Grandmother Morgan' — was fined $3,200 (a hundred dollars on each of...
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Jack Moss
Released
Jack Baxter Moss is an Ohio activist arrested on July 4, 2022, in Akron during mass demonstrations following t...
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Mayer L. Nehring
Released
Mayer L. Nehring, a pharmacist and "Jewish anarchist" from Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced to nineteen years in...
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Colin Neiburger
Released
Colin Neiburger participated in the Columbus antiwar movement of the 1970s. A May 1972 court opinion documents...
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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...
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Henry D. Niles
Released
Henry D. Niles was a defendant in the 1858 Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of the freedom-seeker John Price. On May...
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William Nusbaum
Released
William Nusbaum was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martiale...
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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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Kenneth Osthimer
Released
Kenneth Osthimer was a striker charged under the injunction in the Toledo Auto-Lite strike of May 1934, when t...
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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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Jaywuan Peavy
Released
In June 2020 in Cleveland, OH, Jaywuan Peavy, 19, was charged with using a facility of interstate commerce to...
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John Perotti
Released
John Perotti was a militant jailhouse organizer and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who sp...
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Sister Diane Pinchot
Released
Sister Diane Therese Pinchot OSU is an Ursuline Sister of Cleveland and a participant in multiple Plowshares-s...
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Devon Bryce Poland
Released
Devon Bryce Poland, 22, was charged in Cleveland, OH with co-defendant Brandon Michael Althof Long for the sam...
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Thomas Raley
Released
Thomas Raley refused to answer questions before the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission and was convicted o...
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Sam Reed
Released
Sam Reed was one of the eight defendants — several of them from out of state — indicted in the 1957 Cleveland...
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Eric Reinthaler
Released
Eric Reinthaler was a former officer of United Electrical Workers Local 735 in Cleveland, indicted in January...
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Andrew Remes
Released
Andrew Remes was one of the eight defendants indicted in the 1957 Cleveland Taft-Hartley 'conspiracy' case, a...
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Christopher Reynolds
Released
Activist from Ohio arrested January 18, 2023 during law enforcement raids on the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta,...
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