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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.
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Axel O. Londall
Released
Axel O. Londall was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I....
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Charles Lyons
Released
Black defendant convicted in the racially asymmetric prosecutions following the June 1943 Detroit race riot —...
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Rebecca Maisenberg
Released
Rebecca Maisenberg was a Detroit woman the government moved to denaturalize under the Walter-McCarran Act for...
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Mohamed Mustapha Ali Masfaka
Released
Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, a U.S. permanent resident from Syria, lied to federal authorities about his affi...
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Joni McCoy
Released
Joni McCoy was an anti-nuclear activist whose oral history describes two distinct three-month periods of impri...
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Arthur McPhaul
Released
Arthur McPhaul was a Black Detroit labor and civil-rights figure, a former official of the Michigan Civil Righ...
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Dennis J. Moloney
Released
A Roman Catholic priest associated with Detroit, Michigan, Rev. Dennis Moloney was one of the nine who raided...
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Liam Mulholland
Released
Liam Mulholland, age 18 at indictment, pleaded guilty in 2013 to 18 USC 844(i) arson involving interstate comm...
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Filipina Narciso
Released
Filipina Narciso was one of two Filipina immigrant nurses at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Ann...
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Stanley Nowak
Released
Stanley Nowak was a former Michigan state senator and labor figure facing a denaturalization suit in 1953, a r...
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Andrew Olask
Released
Andrew Olask was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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John Pace
Released
Communist faction leader during the 1932 Bonus Army encampment of unemployed WWI veterans in Washington, DC. P...
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Mary Paige
Released
Mary Paige was a young American-born Detroit woman arrested in a dawn FBI raid on February 6, 1940, one of the...
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Peter Passes
Released
Peter Passes was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Otto Passow
Released
Otto Passow was one of the Bad Axe, Michigan farmers charged with criminal syndicalism during the 1933 farm re...
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Raymond Peoples
Released
Raymond Peoples was one of the "Livernois 5," five young Black men swept up in a Detroit police dragnet after...
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Leonora Perez
Released
Leonora Perez was one of two Filipina immigrant nurses at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Ann Ar...
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Henry Podolski
Released
Henry (Henryk) Podolski was a Polish-born socialist journalist and official of the Polonia Society of the Inte...
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Gus Polites
Released
Gus Polites was a 59-year-old Detroit restaurant and auto worker who had come from Greece in 1916. In 1958 he...
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Pelaga Popovska
Released
Pelaga Popovska of Detroit was a foreign-born radical arrested for deportation in a November 1953 McCarran-Wal...
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George Powers
Released
George Edward Powers was one of five Detroit workers sentenced to 90 days in jail for holding a workers' meeti...
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Nick Prokopenko
Released
Nick Prokopenko was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Tony Pruschuk
Released
Tony Pruschuk was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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Paul Rack
Released
Paul Rack was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
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