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Maine
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 Maine.
32Documented
0In custody
24Released
Eras of repression in Maine
Where Maine’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1920s 9
1930s 7
2020s 5
2010s 3
1970s 3
1910s 2
Recent dashboard entries from Maine
The newest published events and reporting located in Maine, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Bangor reporter Joe Sokol allegedly targeted by car; camera knocked down
Other
Maine ICE observers adapt after fatal enforcement shooting
Other
Maine ICE observer sues agents for threatening to arrest him during January surge
Other
ICE officer kills Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 26, in Biddeford — second fatal ICE shooting in a week
Protest
Houlton Regional Hospital nurses begin a four-day strike over ER staffing
Protest
A Gorham drag storytime draws protesters and counter-protesters; police called
Prosecution
Tyler McGrath acquitted of "assault by airhorn" at a Portland No Kings protest
Protest
Nine anti-ICE protesters arrested at Sen. Collins' office in Portland, Maine
Documented cases
32 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Joseph Aceto
Released
Joseph "Joey" Aceto was an early participant in the Maine prison–rooted militant left of the mid-1970s — docum...
Francis Carroll
Released
Francis Carroll, 22, is a pro-forest, anti-Cop City activist from Kennebunkport, Maine. On January 21, 2023, h...
Paul Barker Cates
Paul Barker Cates was a Quaker conscientious objector from East Vassalboro, Maine. While a student at Haverfor...
Willow Cordes-Eklund
Released
Willow Amanda Cordes-Eklund is a dancer, puppeteer, and environmental activist from Minneapolis. On July 6, 20...
Peter Dirks
Released
Peter Dirks was a member of the International Seamen’s Union imprisoned at Maine State Prison in Thomaston fol...
Colin Dorsey
Released
Colin Dorsey is an activist from Maine who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Training...
Dan Fallon
Released
Dan Fallon was a member of the International Seamen’s Union imprisoned at Maine State Prison in Thomaston foll...
Bruce Gagnon
Released
Bruce K. Gagnon is a Vietnam-era Air Force veteran and peace organizer born in 1952. He co-founded and coordin...
Erik Gillard
Released
Erik J. Gillard is a Vermont artist, printmaker, poet, wilderness guide, youth mentor, and environmental activ...
Michael X. Mockus
Released
Michael X. Mockus was a Lithuanian-born immigrant to the U.S. Mockus became known for outspoken freethought an...
Timothy Murphy
Released
Activist from Maine who spent the night of January 18-19, 2023 in a treehouse in the Weelaunee forest in Atlan...
Sukie Rice
Released
Sukie Rice was an AFSC staffer in Boston who, with Elizabeth Boardman, designed and led the nonviolence traini...
Lisa Savage
Released
Lisa Savage is a retired public-school teacher, writer, and peace organizer in Maine. She has coordinated CODE...
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James Barrett
Released
James W. Barrett was convicted of the October 4, 1975 armed robbery of the Northeast Bank's Lunts Corner branc...
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Lawrence Brown (Maine Socialist strike defendant)
Page 2 names the Socialist Lawrence Brown with Communist Dave Halpern among defendants arrested in the recent...
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Peter Clausen
Peter Clausen was a member of the International Seamen’s Union imprisoned at Maine State Prison in Thomaston f...
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Mitchell Goodman
Released
Mitchell Goodman was a novelist and antiwar activist (and husband of the poet Denise Levertov) who helped orga...
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Sidney Grant
Released
Sidney Grant was a Boston labor attorney who represented the shoe workers during the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn stri...
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Dave Halpern
Page 4 identifies Dave Halpern as a Lewiston shoe worker arrested outside the Androscoggin textile mill during...
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Tom Hardy
Released
Tom Hardy was a member of the International Seamen’s Union imprisoned at Maine State Prison in Thomaston after...
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Thomas Harty
Released
Thomas Harty was one of the marine transport workers imprisoned at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in the...
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Ernest Henry
Released
Ernest Henry was a labor organizer involved in the 1937 shoe workers’ strike in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Po...
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Charles Kaura
Released
Charles Kaura was an indebted farmer evicted from his farm at Cushing, Maine by town selectmen aided by state...
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Jack Lucelle
Jack Lucelle was individually listed among the political and class-war prisoners in the Daily Worker of Decemb...
Institutions in Maine
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Maine that appear in the census’s case files.
Maine State PrisonThomaston, Maine
6 cases
Bath Iron Works (USS Gettysburg) — Aegis Plowshares
1 case