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Michigan

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 Michigan.

149Documented
0In custody
142Released

Eras of repression in Michigan

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

1910s 33 1950s 23 1970s 18 1930s 16 2020s 14 2010s 12

Documented cases

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

Marc Aisen
Released
Marc William Aisen, 50, a Massachusetts man, was arrested in late 2023 and held in Oakland County Jail in Mich...
Joseph Basor
Released
Joseph Basor, from Michigan, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Dennis Batt
Released
Dennis Elihu Batt was a Detroit tool-and-die maker turned Marxist journalist who became a leading figure of th...
J. H. Beyer
Released
J. H. Beyer was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Beyer jumpe...
Barbara Carter
Released
Barbara Carter, age 22, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeli...
Josephine Casey
Released
Josephine Casey was a labor organizer who helped lead the 1912 Kalamazoo corset workers’ strike over wages and...
Rod Coronado
Released
An Indigenous animal-rights and environmental activist, Coronado became a prominent figure in underground dire...
Chandler Davis
Released
Horace Chandler Davis was an American-Canadian mathematician, science-fiction writer, and civil-liberties figu...
Peter Dougherty
Released
Catholic priest and Plowshares peace activist arrested in Michigan for a nuclear-weapons disarmament action an...
John Dupree
Riot + destruction of police property, Grand Rapids May 30 2020. Sentence: 180 days incarceration. Verified vi...
Albert Feiron
Released
Albert Feiron, from Detroit, Michigan, received a prison sentence of twenty years, which was commuted to five....
Paige Feyock
Released
Paige Feyock is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...
Carol Gilbert
Released
Sister Carol Gilbert OP is a Dominican nun of the Grand Rapids Dominicans and longtime resident of Jonah House...
Harold Studley Gray
Released
Harold Studley Gray of Detroit was a Christian absolutist whose pacifism crystallized while doing YMCA work in...
Zainab Hakim
Released
Zainab Hakim is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...
Vicci Hamlin
Released
Vicci Hamlin, age 60, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline...
Amin Hasanzadeh
Released
Amin Hasanzadeh was arrested in late 2019 and later indicted in a case alleging unlawful export of technology...
Jackie Hudson
Released
Sister Jacqueline 'Jackie' Hudson OP was a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids and a longtime anti-nuclear organi...
Oliva Hull
Riot + breaking and entering + malicious destruction, Grand Rapids May 30 2020. Sentence: 1 year Kent County j...
Dave Ingar
Released
Dave Ingar, an ironworker from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted at the mass YWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to...
Fred Jaakkola
Released
Fred Jaakkola, from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years...
Max Kantar
Released
On August 12, 2010, anti-war activists Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar threw cherry pies at U.S. Senator Carl Levi...
Lisa Leggio
Released
Lisa Leggio, age 35, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline...
Lacy MacAuley
Released
Lacy MacAuley, 28, was arrested at a March 5, 2018 disruption of a white-nationalist speaker event at Michigan...

Institutions in Michigan

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

Theodore Levin United States CourthouseDetroit, Michigan
4 cases
FCI MilanMilan, Michigan
3 cases
Bay County JailBay City, Michigan
3 cases
Wayne County Jail
3 cases
Marquette State PrisonMarquette, Michigan
2 cases
Detroit RRMMilan, Michigan
1 case
Federal Detention Center, DetroitDetroit, Michigan
1 case
Federal Correctional Institution, MilanMilan, Michigan
1 case