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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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Ray Rainbolt
Released
Ray Rainbolt was a Dakota labor organizer in Minneapolis and a Local 544 organizer and head of its Union Defen...
C
Carl Reeve
The April 17, 1931 report recalls their actual arrest at the February 25 Minneapolis unemployment demonstratio...
W
William Riley
Released
William Riley was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
C
Callum Robinet
Awaiting Trial
Callum Robinet is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demonst...
J
Joe Rosich
Joe Rosich was a 63-year-old unemployed activist in Duluth. The Daily Worker of January 18, 1933 reports him h...
J
John Salo
Named Industrialisti-related defendant in the Duluth criminal-syndicalism prosecution. The June 1920 report in...
G
Gabriel Sandberg
Released
Gabriel Sandberg was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
I
Irwin Schein
Released
Irwin Schein, a University of Illinois senior gathering information for his college newspaper, was arrested by...
I
I. G. Scott
I. G. Scott was arrested on the Minneapolis truck-strike picket line by the May 22, 1934 dispatch. The report...
J
John L. Seebach
Released
John L. Seebach was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. John L. Seebach was convicted for writing three letters again...
B
Bill Seeverts
Released
Bill Seeverts was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from...
G
George Skourtis
Douglas identifies Skourtis among the men actually arrested in the June 1917 St. Paul draft-registration enfor...
S
Smedburg (Minneapolis CWA defendant, 1934)
The May 8, 1934 Minneapolis report names Smedburg among defendants sentenced for the April 6 CWA relief demons...
M
Michael Smith
Released
Michael Smith appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and...
F
Frederick Sollwold
Douglas names this defendant among eleven men whose civilian jail sentences were reduced to time already serve...
L
Leroy Stark
Released
Leroy Stark was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 19...
F
Frank Stevens
Released
Frank Stevens was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
H
Henry Stock
Released
Henry Stock was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
H
Harold Storsve
Released
Harold Storsve appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
S
Stubbs (Minneapolis CWA defendant, 1934)
The May 8, 1934 Minneapolis report names Stubbs among defendants sentenced for the April 6 CWA relief demonstr...
M
Mark Suchy
Released
Mark Suchy appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft a...
A
Abraham L. Sugarman
Released
Abraham L. Sugarman was from Mankato, Minnesota. Abraham L. Sugarman was convicted of "obstructing military se...
H
Harold Swanson
Released
Harold Swanson was a Minneapolis worker associated with the Local 544-CIO and WPA labor milieu. He was indicte...
R
Robert Switzer
Released
Robert Switzer was imprisoned for conscientious refusal of military service during the1960s.
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