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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.
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Aurora Samson
Aurora Samson was a waitress and supporter of the Colorado coal miners’ strike. A Lafayette dispatch dated Dec...
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Albert Sanchez (Denver beet-worker organizer)
Albert Sanchez was an Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union organizer in Denver. The April 18, 1931 Daily Wor...
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Kris Selvig
Released
Kris Selvig joined a Christmas Day prayer protest at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver on Dece...
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Robert Snyder
Released
Robert Snyder appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
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Pam Solo
Released
Pam Solo is an arms-control strategist and community organizer born in Colorado in 1946. She helped lead the R...
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George StillDay
Released
Native American prisoner held at the Limon Correctional Facility in Colorado under inmate number 85775, identi...
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Bill Sulzman
Bill Sulzman was individually identified in this anti-nuclear imprisonment. The Palm Sunday report individuall...
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Kristen Svanum
Released
Kristen Svanum was a Danish-born Industrial Workers of the World organizer, secretary-treasurer of the IWW's C...
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George Tambolino
George Tambolino, a cloistered Trappist monk, was individually named with Kris Selvig as entering Rocky Flats...
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Kevin Terry
Kevin Terry was prosecuted in the Colorado First Light Infantry weapons case. The FBI report individually says...
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Mario Vasquez
Released
Chicano activist associated with the Crusade for Justice in Denver, arrested following the 1973 confrontation...
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Veronica Vigil
Veronica Vigil was jailed for civil contempt after refusing to answer a federal grand jury’s questions in a Co...
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Elmer Wagner
Released
Elmer Wagner was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World War I. Cou...
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Nancy Wertheimer
Released
Nancy Wertheimer was among the Colorado Communists jailed for contempt in Denver in 1948 for refusing to coope...
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Peter Wukusick
Released
Peter Wukusick was an IWW member from Sacramento. Peter Wukusick received a three-year prison sentence, which...
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Louis Zancanelli
Released
Louis Zancanelli was an Italian-American striking coal miner during the 1913-14 Colorado Coalfield War — a yea...
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Ann Zook
Released
Ann Zook joined a Christmas Day prayer protest at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver on Decembe...
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