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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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Marshall Lakey
Released
Marshall Lakey was convicted in the federal sedition case in the Oklahoma City federal sedition case of 1934–3...
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Christopher Lay
Released
Christopher Lay, age 20, son of Wade Lay, participated in the May 24, 2004 Tulsa bank-robbery attempt motivate...
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Orval Lewis
Released
Orval Lewis was the eighteen-year-old son of Oklahoma homesteaders swept up in Oklahoma County's 1940–41 crimi...
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Neil Quentin Lucas
Released
Private Neil Quentin Lucas was a U.S. Army soldier who refused to deploy after his conscientious-objector clai...
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Henry Lucius
Released
Henry Lucius was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Adion Bryn Mallett
Released
Adion Mallett, 22, was charged with rioting and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony after he...
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Luther Martin
Released
Luther Martin was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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William M. Martin
Released
William M. Martin, from Henrietta, Oklahoma, was sentenced to two years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Pe...
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David W. Meister
Released
David W. Meister was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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William O. Myers
Released
William O. Myers was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Otis Nation
Released
Otis Nation was a UCAPAWA / Oklahoma Tenant Farmers Union organizer — whom New Masses called 'our own Tom Joad...
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C. C. Nesbitt
Released
C. C. Nesbitt was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 r...
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David D. Nickel
Released
David D. Nickel was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. C...
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Joe Paskvam
Released
Joe Paskvam was one of the Oklahoma City unemployed workers convicted under a federal statute after a 1934 rel...
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John M. Penner
Released
John M. Penner was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Co...
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H. Elmer Pinard
Released
H. Elmer Pinard was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I....
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John R. Pinard
Released
John R. Pinard was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. C...
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William F. Pinard
Released
William F. Pinard was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I...
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Peter J. Quiring
Released
Peter J. Quiring was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Benjamin F. Randolph
Released
Benjamin F. Randolph was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Henry H. Ratzlaff
Released
Henry H. Ratzlaff was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I....
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Jacob A. Ratzlaff
Released
Jacob A. Ratzlaff was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Henry E. Reimer
Released
Henry E. Reimer was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. C...
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Herman F. Reimer
Released
Herman F. Reimer was a Mennonite Brethren conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I....
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