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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.
334Documented
1In custody
185Released
8Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Michigan
Where Michigan’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 74
1980s 51
1910s 45
1920s 33
1950s 22
2020s 21
Recent dashboard entries from Michigan
The newest published events and reporting located in Michigan, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
Arrest
Five protesters arrested after an anti-ICE march reached the Grand Rapids ICE field office
Arrest
Police report 22 arrests during an anti-Islam demonstration and counterprotest outside Dearborn's council meeting
Prosecution
Four pro-Palestine activists released on bond after FBI arrests
Prosecution
DOJ Targets Michigan Palestine Solidarity Activists With Federal Charges
Arrest
8 arrested in FBI raids related to pro-Palestine advocacy at University of Michigan
Protest
UAW Local 2093 strikes American Axle over stagnant wages
Protest
Hundreds marched in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a nationwide general strike against the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis (no arrests)
Documented cases
334 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Rudolph Schware
Released
Rudolph Schware was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal pro...
A
Alexander Matthew Sepulveda
Awaiting Trial
Alexander Matthew Sepulveda is one of eight Palestine-solidarity activists federally indicted in May 2026 over...
P
Paul Seridin
Released
Paul Seridin was one of seven Detroit John Reed Club delegates arrested Saturday June 23, 1934 while entering...
L
Louis Severa
Louis Severa, also printed as Luka Sovera, was arrested while attending a Communist meeting in Detroit, accord...
E
Eugene Shafarman
Released
Eugene Shafarman was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal pr...
D
Drin Shapiro
Drin Shapiro served three days for a bail violation following the 2024 Michigan pro-Palestinian encampment.
C
Clarence Sherman
Clarence Sherman was a jobless father of six and a leader of an Unemployed Council. A Detroit November 16 disp...
J
Jan Shireman
Jan Shireman was jailed in 1986 following a protest at Michigan’s Project ELF facility.
M
Mohamed Shorbagi
Released
Mohamed Shorbagi, a Georgia imam, was connected to the Holy Land Foundation and charged with providing materia...
S
Shorty (Pontiac work-relief protester)
An on-site account identifies a sixteen-year-old called Shorty, wearing glasses, on Pontiac’s Dawson Mill Pond...
B
Bill Siroka
Released
Bill Siroka was district organizer of the Young Communist League. The Daily Worker of July12,1930 names this o...
C
Clyde Smith
Released
Clyde Smith was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during the...
J
James Smith
James Smith is individually named among the five Williams International peace resisters arrested Good Friday A...
D
David Sole
Workers World’s campaign biography reports that David Sole was arrested in 1972 while protesting the Ku Klux K...
A
Abraham Sompolski
Abraham Sompolski was among workers arrested at or before the Grand Rapids August 1, 1929 antiwar meeting. The...
H
Henry Sompolski
Henry Sompolski was among workers arrested at or before the Grand Rapids August 1, 1929 antiwar meeting. The r...
C
Carol Standish
Released
Carol Standish was one of seven Detroit John Reed Club delegates arrested Saturday June 23, 1934 while enterin...
V
Velma Stark
Velma Stark was one of three young workers arrested at the August 1, 1929 Hancock antiwar street meeting and c...
R
Ryan Stewart
Ryan Stewart, identified as Michigan prisoner 525487, appeared in Earth First’s historical list of politicized...
M
Maurice Sugar
The Detroit report names Sugar among members of the MichiganSocialist managing board placed under arrest for c...
E
Emanuel Swartzendruber
Released
Emanuel Swartzendruber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Cou...
G
Gladys Sweet
Gladys Sweet, wife of Ossian Sweet, was one of eleven Black occupants arrested in Detroit on September 9, 1925...
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Otis O. Sweet
Otis O. Sweet, Ossian Sweet's brother and a Detroit dentist, was one of eleven Black occupants arrested in Det...
J
Jesse Lee Tally
Released
Jesse Lee Tally was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World Wa...
Institutions in Michigan
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Michigan that appear in the census’s case files.
Federal Correctional Institution, MilanMilan, Michigan
6 cases
FCI MilanMilan, Michigan
3 cases
Bay County JailBay City, Michigan
3 cases
Michigan State Prison (Jackson)
3 cases
Wayne County Jail
3 cases
State Prison of Southern MichiganJackson, Michigan
2 cases
Marquette State PrisonMarquette, Michigan
2 cases
Detroit RRMMilan, Michigan
1 case