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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.
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Ron Lucas
Released
Ron Lucas was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1971...
J
Jerry Malmanger
Released
Jerry Malmanger was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports fro...
I
Irma Martin
Irma Martin was collecting Communist Party ballot signatures in Duluth, Minnesota when an armed gang seized he...
C
C. Mattson
The Minneapolis report identifies C.Mattson as HennepinCounty CentralCommittee treasurer, jailed under$5,000ba...
J
Joe McCarthy
Released
Joe McCarthy was an organizer and delegate for the Lumber Workers Industrial Union in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
E
Ernest McDuffy
Printed Ern. McDuffy in the victims-of-national-oppression section of the September 1934 ILD roster, he was co...
M
Milton McLean
Released
Milton McLean was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
D
Douglas Misterek
Awaiting Trial
Douglas Misterek is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demon...
E
Elwood Moore
Released
Elwood Moore appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
W
William Morgan
Awaiting Trial
William Morgan is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demonst...
L
Larry Morlan
Released
Larry Morlan was a Catholic peace activist arrested in a Plowshares disarmament action against nuclear weapons...
T
Thomas Wilder Moseley
Released
Thomas Wilder Moseley, 29, was charged in Minneapolis, MN with possessing firearms and ammunition while being...
J
J. J. Noah
Marshall identifies Noah as a Minnesota lawyer and former Union major honorably discharged in late June 1862 b...
M
Marie Nord
Released
Sister Marie Nord was a Minnesota Franciscan sister whose ministry was hospitality work for women. The People...
S
Sauder M. Nygaard
Released
Sauder M. Nygaard was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court...
E
Emil Nygard
Released
Emil Nygard was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
E
Elmer N. Olson
Released
Elmer N. Olson was a Pentecostal conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-ma...
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Roy Orgon
Released
Roy Orgon was a Minneapolis labor organizer associated with Local 544-CIO’s Federal Workers Section, which org...
M
Malcolm Parker
Malcolm “Max” Parker was a conscientious objector imprisoned at Sandstone Correctional Institution during the...
G
George Payne (Minneapolis relief protest)
George Payne was named among workers arrested after the April 6, 1934 Minneapolis City Hall demonstration for...
J
James A. Peterson
Released
James A. Peterson was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. James A. Peterson began serving a four-year prison sentence...
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Seth Peterson Jr.
Released
Seth Peterson Jr. was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports f...
M
Myron Philips
Released
Myron Philips was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
C
Charles Plann
Released
Charles Plann was a farmer from Louverne, Minnesota. Charles Plann was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chic...
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