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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.
159Documented
0In custody
131Released
Eras of repression in Oklahoma
Where Oklahoma’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 90
1930s 28
1940s 8
1970s 7
1960s 7
2000s 6
Recent dashboard entries from Oklahoma
The newest published events and reporting located in Oklahoma, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Four Tulsa Food Not Bombs volunteers arrested for obstruction at a weekly free-meal handout after the city demanded a costly events permit
Prosecution
Skiatook, Oklahoma man Logan Murfin was convicted by a federal jury on ten counts of threatening to assault and murder federal agents in posts on X targeting ICE officers
Protest
Stand Up for Science rally hits the Oklahoma Capitol against research cuts
Arrest
Arrest made at heated Claremore data center meeting
Arrest
Community activist arrested at Claremore data center meeting
Arrest
Oklahoma man arrested at AI data center meeting
Arrest
Oklahoma farmer jailed for trespassing at AI data center town hall
Arrest
Tension over a proposed AI data center leads to an arrest in Oklahoma
Documented cases
159 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Albert Grinnell
Albert Grinnell was identified as district organizer of the Young Communist League in Ray Pierce’s account of...
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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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Samuel David Hawkins
In Exile
Samuel David Hawkins was a U.S. Army private first class from Oklahoma City and one of 21 American Korean War...
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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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Rev. William Madison Hicks
Released
Rev. William Madison Hicks was a preacher, a lawyer, a pacifist and a Socialist Party member from Guthrie, Okl...
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Melvin D. Hoit
Released
Melvin D. Hoit appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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Stan Holder
Released
Stanley Richard Holder was a Wichita Vietnam combat veteran who served as the American Indian Movement's chief...
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Jess Hollins
Jess Hollins was confined at the state penitentiary according to the September 1934 roster.
Printed Jess Holl...
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Ulyses B. Hooks Jr.
Ulyses B. Hooks Jr. was an Oklahoma prisoner writing from McLeod Honor Farm in Farris under prisoner number 85...
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George Hopkins
Released
George Hopkins was a Black unemployed worker prosecuted after the May 1934 relief demonstration at the Federal...
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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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Argyle Jansen
Released
Argyle Jansen appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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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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Thomas Jepson
Released
Thomas Jepson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
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Johannes M. Klassen
Released
Johannes M. Klassen was from Clinton, Oklahoma. Johannes M. Klassen was a Mennonite and objected to military s...
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Charles Krieger
Released
Charles Krieger was an IWW organizer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Charles Krieger was held in jail awaiting trail und...
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C. L. Fullerton
C. L. Fullerton was a worker jailed for labor activism in Oklahoma. A report of the February 9, 1931 Walden To...
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Chris Lay
Released
Christopher Lay, son of Wade Lay, participated in the May 24, 2004 Tulsa bank-robbery attempt motivated by ant...
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Wade Greely Lay
Wade Greely Lay was convicted with his son Christopher of first-degree murder and attempted robbery after a Ma...
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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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A. Litt
A. Litt signed a statement with four fellow defendants in the Oklahoma City federal protest prosecution. The M...
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 State PenitentiaryMcAlester, Oklahoma
4 cases
Oklahoma County JailOklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 cases
Mabel Bassett Correctional InstitutionMcLoud, Oklahoma
1 case
Fort Pickens / Mount Vernon Barracks / Fort Sill
1 case
McLeod Honor FarmFarris, Oklahoma
1 case