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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.
Erica Bouza
Released
Erica Bouza was the wife of then-Minneapolis Police Chief Tony Bouza. Became national news in April 1983 when...
Allan S. Broms
Released
Allan S. Broms, also known as Allan Strong-Broms, was a St. Paul Socialist and World War I draft resister. His...
James P. Cannon
Released
James P. Cannon was the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP); leading figure in American Tr...
Grace Carlson
Released
Grace Carlson was a Socialist Workers Party leader and 1940 SWP candidate for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, with...
Jake Cooper
Released
Jake Cooper was a Minneapolis Teamster who served as one of Leon Trotsky's bodyguards at Coyoacán, Mexico for...
Oscar Coover
Released
Oscar Coover was a veteran Minneapolis electrical worker and Trotskyist who was among the founding leaders of...
George W. Crocker
Released
One of Minnesota's longest-serving energy and anti-nuclear activists, working since the late 1970s on energy-d...
Robert Czernik
Released
Robert Czernik, age 35, was one of the RNC 8 indicted for organizing affinity-group disruption of the 2008 RNC...
Marvin Allen Davidov
Released
Marvin Allen Davidov was born in Detroit on August 26, 1931, moved to St. Paul in 1949 to attend Macalester Co...
Erik Davis
Awaiting Trial
Erik Davis is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demonstrati...
Sharon Day
Released
Sharon M. Day is an Ojibwe activist, artist, and writer of the Bois Forte Band and the founder and longtime ex...
Harry DeBoer
Released
Harry DeBoer was a Minneapolis coal-yard Teamster; leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, credited w...
Scott DeMuth
Released
Minneapolis anarchist, Dakota activist, and University of Minnesota anthropology graduate student prosecuted d...
Farrell Dobbs
Released
Farrell Dobbs was a Teamsters organizer who led the 1938-41 over-the-road truck driver organizing drives bring...
Joel Doty
Released
Joel Doty was one of four Minnesota farm brothers — sons of William N. Doty of Bruno — who refused on conscien...
Orin Doty
Released
Orin Doty was one of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to coopera...
Paul Doty
Released
Paul Doty was one of the four Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, conscientious objectors who refused to cooper...
Sid Doty
Released
Sid Doty was the youngest of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to...
Emmett James Doyle
Awaiting Trial
Emmett James Doyle is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and dem...
Grant Dunne
Released
Grant Dunne was a Minneapolis labor organizer, World War I veteran, and one of the Dunne brothers associated w...
Miles B. Dunne
Released
Miles B. Dunne was president of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and a brother of labor organizers Vincent Ray and Gr...
Vincent Raymond Dunne
Released
Vincent Raymond Dunne was the Central leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike; co-founder of American...
Red Fawn Fallis
Released
Red Fawn Fallis is a native rights activist who was a leader in the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Movement. W...
Carrie Feldman
Released
Minneapolis anarchist and animal-rights activist jailed during the Green Scare for refusing to cooperate with...
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