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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.
Candelario Montoya
Released
Candelario Montoya was a Spanish-speaking sugar-beet worker convicted with two other young laborers of murderi...
Jamshid Muhtorov
Released
The FBI began investigating Jamshid Muhtorov, a refugee from Uzbekistan, after he began communicating with the...
Lucy Grace Nelson
Released
Lucy Grace Nelson was federally arrested on February 27, 2025 over incendiary devices and anti-Tesla and anti-...
Ehret Nottingham
Released
Ehret Nottingham is a self-described community organizer from Fort Collins, Colorado who was arrested on March...
James Omura
Released
James Matsumoto Omura was a Japanese American journalist and the English-language editor of the Denver newspap...
Chase Powers
Released
Chase J. Powers was a Mine-Mill executive board member prosecuted in the federal conspiracy case over Taft-Har...
Elihu Preston
Page 3 individually identifies Elihu Preston in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-strik...
Chelcee Price
Released
Chelcee Price, age 23, of Denver, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Antonio Quintana
Released
Antonio Quintana was a twenty-two-year-old member of Denver’s Crusade for Justice when police arrested him on...
Edward Radke
Page 3 individually identifies Edward Radke in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-strike...
Ricardo Romero
Released
Chicano/Mexicano organizer with the MLN (Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Mexicano) jailed for civil contempt...
Milka Sablich
Released
Milka Sablich, known as "Flaming Milka," was a young picket leader during the 1927 Colorado coal strike. She w...
Joe Saiz
Released
Joe Saiz was a Spanish-speaking sugar-beet worker convicted with two other young laborers of murdering farmer...
Ben Salmon
Released
Ben Salmon was one of the most visible U.S. conscientious objectors of World War I, arguing from Catholic paci...
Harold Sanderson
Released
Harold Sanderson was a leader of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prosecuted in the f...
Hedy Sawadsky
Released
Hedy Sawadsky joined a Christmas Day prayer protest at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver on De...
Joseph W. Scherrer
Released
Joseph W. Scherrer was arrested with the Denver Smith Act defendants on August 1, 1954 and released on $5,000...
Maia Scherrer
Released
Maia Scherrer was a Denver Communist and secretary of the Colorado defense committee. Federal agents arrested...
Paul Seidler
Paul Seidler was a Colorado coal-strike prisoner reported by the Daily Worker on November 9, 1927. Its report...
Charles Sheufelt
Page 3 individually identifies Charles Sheufelt in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-st...
Daniel Sicken
Released
Daniel Sicken is described as an anti-nuclear activist whose direct action centered on U.S. intercontinental b...
Albert Skinner
Released
Albert Skinner was a leader of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers prosecuted in the fed...
Kyle Snyder
Released
Kyle Snyder, born September 12, 1983 and raised partly in foster care in Colorado, enlisted in the United Stat...
Clifford Spilman
Page 3 individually identifies Clifford Spilman in the front/rear-row caption of the Denver-Arapahoe relief-st...
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