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Wisconsin

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 Wisconsin.

439Documented
2In custody
135Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Wisconsin

Where Wisconsin’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1940s 250 1930s 47 1910s 33 1960s 23 1970s 22 2020s 19

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Documented cases

439 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Mike Kunza
Mike Kunza is identified in Page 3's December 18 Kenosha dispatch as a Relief Workers Association leader sente...
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Sajuro Kurachi
Sajuro Kurachi was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-06-13. The repo...
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Jacob Lachenko
Jacob Lachenko, also printed as Jack Lacpenko, was arrested while attending a Communist Party meeting in Milwa...
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Mike Lajan
Mike Lajan, a former Milwaukee resident deported as a radical, wrote after arrival in his native Yugoslavia of...
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Conard Wilhelm Lamprecht
Conard Wilhelm Lamprecht was reported arriving at Camp McCoy in April 1942. An April 18, 1942 Camp McCoy repo...
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Sylvester Landwehr
Sylvester Landwehr was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-08-18. The...
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Fritz E. Laqua
Fritz E. Laqua is individually named in the March 16, 1942 Camp McCoy personnel-record transmittal among civil...
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George Laufer
George Laufer was confined at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, under wartime civilian enemy-alien internment. A March 7,...
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Michael Legoth
Released
Michael Legoth was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutio...
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Alfons Leins
Alfons Leins was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-05-23. The report...
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Lendrum
Released
Lendrum (Milwaukee physician, 1940) was a physician arrested in Milwaukee on February 6, 1940, in the federal...
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Willard Lenton
Released
Willard Lenton was one of four University of Wisconsin–Madison activists arrested on May 4, 1971 following a d...
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Carl Lester
Released
Carl Lester was a leader of Milwaukee's South Side Unemployed Council. Police jailed him during the 1932 campa...
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Alex Licora
Alex Licora is named in Page 3 as one of two arrested when deputy sheriffs attacked FERA relief-strike pickets...
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Amedeo Lilli
Released
Amedeo Lilli was born in Acqualagna, Italy. Immigrated to the United States in 1913. Arrested in September 19...
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Elmer Lockner
Elmer Lockner was Milwaukee county secretary of the Communist Party. The International Labor Defense called fo...
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George Loh
Released
George Loh was editor of the German-language newspaper Der Arbeiter in New York. At a 1936 German Day gatherin...
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Cailin Elizabeth Major
Released
Cailin Elizabeth Major, then 25 and living in Milwaukee, was arrested after the May 1, 2010 anti-capitalist Ma...
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Max G. Mantschewsky
Max G. Mantschewsky was individually recorded in a Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, receipt report dated 1942-06-13. The...
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Shigezo Markawa
Shigezo Markawa is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at...
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Tony Marta
Tony Marta is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the W...
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Shozaemon Masaki
Shozaemon Masaki is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at...
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Zikyo Masaki
Zikyo Masaki is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confined at the...
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Shushin Matsubayashi
Shushin Matsubayashi is individually named on the U.S. Army’s Camp McCoy civilian-internment roster as confine...

Institutions in Wisconsin

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Wisconsin that appear in the census’s case files.

FCI OxfordOxford, Wisconsin
11 cases
Milwaukee House of CorrectionMilwaukee, Wisconsin
11 cases
Dane County JailMadison, Wisconsin
8 cases
Ashland County JailAshland, Wisconsin
5 cases
Dane County Circuit Court
2 cases
Wisconsin state prisonMilwaukee, Wisconsin
2 cases
Wisconsin State PrisonWaupun, Wisconsin
2 cases
U.S. Federal Custom House Jail, MilwaukeeMilwaukee, Wisconsin
1 case