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Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma.
124Documented
0In custody
118Released
Eras of repression in Oklahoma
Where Oklahoma’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 89
1930s 11
1940s 7
2000s 5
1970s 5
2020s 2
Documented cases
124 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Orville Enfield
Released
Orville Enfield, a Socialist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was arrested on June 6, 1918. He was sentenced to t...
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Bernhard E. Fast
Released
Bernhard E. Fast was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Henry C. Fast
Released
Henry C. Fast was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martia...
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Jordan Magde Ferrand-Sapsis
Released
Jordan Magde Ferrand-Sapsis, age 24, of Oklahoma City, was indicted in September 2010 alongside ten other Ashe...
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Henry H. Franz
Henry H. Franz was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector who died at age 22 while imprisoned at the Fort...
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Herman I. Frey
Released
Herman I. Frey was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Henry G. Fritzler
Released
Henry G. Fritzler was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Ross H. Gillman
Released
Ross H. Gillman was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I....
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Norma Gist
Released
Norma Gist was a thirty-year-old Black mother of two in Idabel, Oklahoma, whose prosecution grew out of an inc...
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Elizabeth Green
Released
Elizabeth Green was an Oklahoma unemployed-workers leader arrested and arraigned on criminal-syndicalism charg...
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Rickke Green
Released
New Afrikan political prisoner held at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, #84244. Listed as a North American pol...
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Bland Rayburn Harris
Released
Bland Rayburn Harris was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Edward Hein
Released
Edward Hein was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Stanley Holder
Released
Stanley Richard Holder was a Wichita Vietnam combat veteran who served as the American Indian Movement's chief...
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George Hopkins
Released
George Hopkins was sentenced to eighteen months and a $500 fine in the Oklahoma City federal sedition case of...
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Eli Jaffe
Released
Eli Jaffe was a Communist and farm organizer (and a New Masses contributor) jailed in the Oklahoma County Jail...
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Jacob W. Jantz
Released
Jacob W. Jantz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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Joseph J. Jantz
Released
Joseph J. Jantz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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William J. Jantz
Released
William J. Jantz was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Jacob C. Janzen
Released
Jacob C. Janzen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Joshua Key
In Exile
Joshua Key, born in Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1978, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002 and was stationed at...
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John M. Klaassen
John M. Klaassen was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Johannes M. Klassen
Released
Johannes M. Klassen, from Clinton, Oklahoma, was a Mennonite and objected to military service on religious gro...
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Charles Krieger
Released
Charles Krieger, an IWW organizer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was held in jail awaiting trail under the Espionage Ac...
Institutions in Oklahoma
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Oklahoma that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Sill brigFort Sill, Oklahoma
5 cases
Oklahoma County JailOklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 cases
Oklahoma State PenitentiaryMcAlester, Oklahoma
2 cases
Mabel Bassett Correctional InstitutionMcLoud, Oklahoma
1 case
Fort Pickens / Mount Vernon Barracks / Fort Sill
1 case