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Minnesota
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 Minnesota.
279Documented
9In custody
212Released
15Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Minnesota
Where Minnesota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2020s 52
1910s 52
1940s 44
1930s 32
1970s 23
2010s 19
Recent dashboard entries from Minnesota
The newest published events and reporting located in Minnesota, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Court dismisses lawsuit over ICE treatment of Minnesota protesters
Other
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
Prosecution
The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
Arrest
She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door
Prosecution
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Prosecution
The 15 Direct Action Minnesota defendants plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges over anti-ICE protests
Prosecution
Isabel Lopez receives time served after federal case resolves with one misdemeanor
Protest
Inver Grove Heights council meeting erupts after a data-center moratorium vote is delayed; mayor walks out
Documented cases
279 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Vance Boelter
In Custody
Vance Boelter was arrested on June 15, 2025 after a politically targeted shooting campaign against Minnesota l...
Victor Devon Edwards
In Custody
Victor D. Edwards, 31, of St. Paul was charged in conspiracy with Shador T.C. Jackson and Leroy L.P. Williams...
Fornandous Henderson
In Custody
Molotov arson of Dakota County government building (2020). Sentence: 78 months federal prison. Verified via pu...
Montez Terriel Lee Jr.
In Custody
Montez Terriel Lee Jr. was federally prosecuted for setting fire to the Max It Pawn Shop in Minneapolis during...
Ronald Reed
In Custody
Ronald Reed is a former 60s civil rights activist. In 1969, Reed was also among the students at St. Paul Centr...
Matthew Rupert
In Custody
Matthew Lee Rupert appears in federal case summaries as a defendant charged in Minnesota with offenses connect...
Kyle Wagner
In Custody
Kyle Wagner is a 37-year-old Minneapolis activist who self-identifies as antifascist ("antifa"). On February 5...
Leroy Lemonte Perry Williams
In Custody
Leroy L.P. Williams, 34, of Minneapolis was charged in conspiracy with Shador T.C. Jackson and Victor D. Edwar...
Minnie D. Abbott
Released
Minnie D. Abbott was arrested along with many other women in 1917 for picketing for women's suffrage outside t...
Nasra Ahmed
Released
Nasra Ahmed was arrested by immigration agents in St. Paul on January 14, 2026 and held at the Whipple Federal...
Terry J. Albury
Released
Terry J. Albury, born in 1979, is a former FBI agent who disclosed internal documents describing the bureau’s...
C. W. Anderson
Released
C. W. Anderson was the secretary-treasurer of the Agricultural Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 450, in St. P...
Charles Anding
Released
Charles Anding was from Winona, Minnesota. Charles Anding was arrested on May 25, 1918, for obstructing the dr...
Dennis Banks
Released
Dennis Banks was an Anishinaabe organizer and a co-founder of the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis in 1...
Cyan Bass
Released
Cyan Bass was prosecuted for offenses arising from a September 23, 2020 protest in downtown Portland, Oregon....
Nancy Beaulieu
Released
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) water protector and organizer charged with criminal trespass for the eight-day Fire Light...
Clyde Bellecourt
Released
Clyde Howard Bellecourt was an Ojibwe (White Earth) leader who co-founded the American Indian Movement in Minn...
Vernon Bellecourt
Released
Vernon Bellecourt (WaBun-Inini, 1931–2007), an Anishinaabe leader of the American Indian Movement, was jailed...
Brad Beneke
Released
Member of the Winona raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Dec 3, 1970; as one...
Jacob O. Bentall
Released
Jacob O. Bentall was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jacob O. Bentall was convicted for making a speech during hi...
Monica Bicking
Released
Monica Bicking was one of the RNC 8 indicted for organizing affinity-group disruption of the 2008 Republican N...
Greg Boertje-Obed
Released
Greg Boertje-Obed is a Catholic pacifist and anti-nuclear activist best known for the 2012 “Transform Now Plow...
Barry Bondhus
Released
Barry Bondhus was a 19-year-old from Big Lake, Minnesota, who in February 1966 dumped two buckets of human fec...
G. J. Bourg
Released
G. J. Bourg was secretary of the IWW's Kansas City (Missouri) local when arrested. He was convicted at the mas...
Institutions in Minnesota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Minnesota that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI SandstoneSandstone, Minnesota
21 cases
FCI WasecaWaseca, Minnesota
10 cases
Ramsey County District CourtSt. Paul, Minnesota
7 cases
U.S. District Court, District of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota
5 cases
White Earth Tribal Court
3 cases
Ramsey County JailSt. Paul, Minnesota
2 cases
Hennepin County JailMinneapolis, Minnesota
1 case
FPC DuluthDuluth, Minnesota
1 case