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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.
B
Bart Dudek
Bart Dudek was an IWW strike supporter imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus. The December 1937 appe...
B
Brendan Eaton
Released
Brendan Eaton, approximately 20 years old at the time, was arrested during protests in Akron, Ohio on July 4,...
F
Francel Evanoff
Francel Evanoff, a Pennsylvania Railroad laborer and local Socialist Labor Party secretary in Mansfield, Ohio,...
R
Robert Farmer
Robert Farmer, a miners’ subdistrict president, was arrested and held without bail in the prosecution over Joh...
A
Albert Faulkner
Albert Faulkner was one of five members of a Cincinnati unemployed-workers’ relief delegation arrested on Octo...
J
John Fears
John Fears, identified as a Black Cleveland worker, was arrested after relief-related action at Quincy Market...
A
Alexander J. Feldhaus
Alexander J. Feldhaus is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy...
D
Daniel Flanagan
Released
Daniel Flanagan was the editor of the Mason Democrat in Mason, Ohio. In February 1865 he was tried by a milita...
M
Morris Fleishman
Morris Fleishman was arrested for painting Cleveland sidewalks with signs calling workers to the August 1, 192...
J
Janae Fort
Released
Fort, a 32-year-old Akron mother, joined the July 3, 2022 demonstrations after Jayland Walker’s killing. The c...
J
Jerome Friedman
Released
Jerome 'Jerry' Friedman was Ohio State's undergraduate student president in 1971–72, an antiwar activist, and...
F
Fred Frigo
Fred Frigo was jailed in a labor-related federal prosecution in Ohio in 2002.
C
Charles Fritz
Released
Charles Fritz was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
L
Lowell L. Fritz
Released
Lowell L. Fritz was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
S
S. Russell Gibboney
S. Russell Gibboney was a Republic Steel employee on strike in Youngstown. He testified that police arrested h...
T
Timothy James Goodner
Released
Timothy James Goodner was involved in an act of arson concerning the Shaia's Parking Lot attendant booth on Ma...
A
Andy Gorrell
Andy was a coal-strike prisoner signing a June 26, 1931 letter from Belmont County Jail.
I
Ira B. Graber
Released
Ira B. Graber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
E
Elias Graceley
Released
Elias Graceley was from Toledo, Ohio. Elias Graceley began serving a sentence on April 5, 1918.
R
Ronald T. Green
Released
Ronald T. Green, of Youngstown OH, threw an object through the rear window of a Youngstown police cruiser duri...
E
Elvadoore Claude Greenfield
Released
Elvadoore Claude Greenfield was arrested in Cleveland on October 6, 1953 in the Ohio Smith Act roundup and hel...
W
Walter Gregory
Walter Gregory is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy to viol...
W
William Gruber
William Gruber is individually identified in the Ohio section among defendants convicted of conspiracy to viol...
C
Carl Hacker
Carl Hacker was an Ohio lieutenant-governor candidate whom I. Amter explicitly reports was arrested during a p...
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