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Colorado
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 Colorado.
161Documented
5In custody
101Released
Eras of repression in Colorado
Where Colorado’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1980s 30
1930s 26
1950s 20
1910s 11
2010s 10
1970s 10
Recent dashboard entries from Colorado
The newest published events and reporting located in Colorado, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Judge allows assault prosecution of GEO Group employee accused of shooting Aurora ICE protester
Prosecution
Four Centennial anti-ICE protesters notified of planned state-charge dismissal
Prosecution
Denver police cite three people after an anti-ICE student walkout at La Alma-Lincoln Park
Arrest
Four people arrested during the Project Taurus data-center hearing in Colorado Springs
Arrest
Four anti-ICE demonstrators arrested during a die-in outside the Centennial ICE field office
Arrest
ICE facility employee in Aurora arrested after shooting protestor, police say
Prosecution
A CBP officer is charged with assault over the Durango ICE protest
Protest
Sheridan teachers strike and picket over a stalled contract
Documented cases
161 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
James H. Durkin
Released
James H. Durkin was a former Mine-Mill international representative prosecuted in the federal conspiracy case...
Phineas Eastman
Released
Phineas Eastman was from New Raymer, Colorado. Phineas Eastman was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita...
Robert Ellsberg
Released
Robert Ellsberg is a writer and publisher who participated in the Catholic Worker movement. He joined the 1978...
Elisabeth Epps
Released
Elisabeth Epps is an attorney, prison-abolition organizer, and founder of the Colorado Freedom Fund. Aurora po...
Roger Francezon
Roger Francezon was a Colorado coal-strike prisoner reported by the Daily Worker on November 9, 1927. Its repo...
Ripley Gibson
Released
Ripley Gibson was a member of the Scottsboro branch of the International Labor Defense in Denver. During the O...
Allen Ginsberg
Released
Allen Ginsberg was a Beat Generation poet, then teaching at Naropa Institute in Boulder, and a prominent parti...
William Golden
Page 3 individually identifies William Golden in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-stri...
Rodolfo Gonzales
Released
Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales was a former featherweight boxer from Denver who founded the Crusade for Justice in 1...
Antonio Guerrero
Released
Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez was one of the Cuban Five. He was convicted in the Southern District of Florida in...
Jennifer Haines
Released
Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prison...
Juan Haro
Released
Juan Haro was a leader and head of security for the Denver Chicano movement organization Crusade for Justice....
James Jobes
Page 3 individually identifies James Jobes in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-strike...
Lewis Johnson
Released
Lewis Johnson was a Denver Communist arrested under the Smith Act in August 1954 during the McCarthy era. He w...
Fred Keitz
Page 3 individually identifies Fred Keitz in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-strike d...
Byron Kitto
Byron Kitto was a Colorado coal-strike prisoner reported by the Daily Worker on November 9, 1927. Its report d...
Paul Kleinbord
Released
Paul Kleinbord, a Communist Party leader in Colorado, was among the Colorado Communists jailed for contempt in...
John R. Lawson
Released
John R. Lawson was a United Mine Workers of America organizer and a leader of the 1913-14 Colorado Coalfield W...
Henry Maki
Released
Henry Maki was born Henrik "Heikki" Iivari Maentaka in Ähtäri, Finland. Henry Maki was a Finnish-American hard...
James Marshall
Released
James Marshall was sentenced on December 7, 2021 by Judge Gilbert Martinez to eleven years after pleading guil...
Francisco Kiko Martinez
Released
Francisco Eugenio "Kiko" Martínez (born November 26, 1946 in Alamosa, Colorado) was a Chicano-movement attorne...
Patricia McCormick
Released
Sister of Loretto raised on a farm northwest of Chicago, served in Bolivia in 1965 where she met Daniel Berrig...
Julie A. McElvain
Released
Julie A. McElvain was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...
J. A. Miller
Released
J. A. Miller was from Denver, Colorado. The 1921 Senate hearing records his sentencing on May 31, 1918 to two...
Institutions in Colorado
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Colorado that appear in the census’s case files.
FDC EnglewoodLittleton, Colorado
4 cases
Jefferson County Jail
4 cases
Las Animas County Jail
4 cases
ADX FlorenceFlorence, Colorado
3 cases
Colorado State PenitentiaryCañon City, Colorado
3 cases
Mount San Rafael Hospital / Trinidad jail (militia custody)Trinidad, Colorado
1 case
Denver County JailDenver, Colorado
1 case
Colorado Department of Corrections
1 case