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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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Louis Cale
Released
Louis Cale, also known as Louis Moore, was a Detroit man who, with Henry D. Jackson Jr. and his half-brother M...
G
George Casper
Released
George Casper was a Farmers' League member charged with criminal syndicalism at White Cloud, Michigan during t...
D
Deb Choley
Deb Choley is individually named among four taken into custody August 9, 1983 at Williams International in Wal...
A
Alton Church
Alton Church was sentenced January 14, 1919 to seven months in Detroit House of Correction for refusing draft...
J
Joseph Clark
Released
Joseph Clark was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal prosec...
S
Sondra Clark
Released
Sondra Clark was a Black resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, caught up in the 1984 Calhoun County state grand...
J
Johnson Cole
Released
Head of the Detroit White Panther Party sentenced to 9.5–10 years for giving two marijuana cigarettes to an un...
S
Silas Coleman
Silas Coleman, a Black World War veteran, was lured into a car on a pretext of collecting money and taken into...
E
Elton Davis
Released
Elton Davis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installatio...
L
Leon Davis
Released
Leon Davis was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal prosecut...
W
William E. Davis
William E. Davis, a pharmacist and federal narcotics agent, was one of eleven Black occupants arrested in Detr...
T
Thomas Dennis
Released
Thomas DeWitt Dennis Jr. was a Black Detroit Communist Party organizer prosecuted under the Smith Act. A jury...
W
William Denton
Released
William Denton was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. C...
M
Marge Dewey
Marge Dewey was jailed for civil contempt after the June 11, 1984 anti-nuclear blockade at Williams Internatio...
S
Samuel Diamond
The Detroit report individually names MichiganSocialist managing-board member SamuelDiamond as arrested in the...
F
Francis Donnelly
Released
Francis Donnelly — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military instal...
J
Joseph H. Downer
Joseph H. Downer was arrested with a fellow worker in Flint, Michigan, on September 14, 1919 after a restauran...
D
Dudley (Detroit, 1934)
Released
Dudley was a Black literature seller associated with the Workers Book Shop in Detroit. The Daily Worker, Augus...
G
George Dujowich
George Dujowich was arrested in a Pontiac home raid during the January 1930 Communist crackdown. The paper say...
C
Charles Ellis
Released
Charles Ellis was a Detroit worker arrested during the police raids that followed the Ford Hunger March massac...
F
Frank Feldt Jr.
Released
Frank Feldt Jr. was one of the defendants actually arrested in Detroit on February 6, 1940, in the federal pro...
M
Madelyn Fletcher
Released
Black policewoman in Flint, Michigan prosecuted after an armed confrontation the paper attributes to threats b...
L
Leo Fortin
Leo Fortin was an Unemployed Council member in Pontiac, Michigan. George Morris’s contemporary account identif...
A
Aaron Fox
Released
Black defendant convicted in the racially asymmetric prosecutions following the June 1943 Detroit race riot —...
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