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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.
Abdul Maumin Khabir
Released
Abdul Maumin Khabir is a falsely accused political prisoner, sentenced to life under RICO laws. He was indicte...
Kevin Kjonaas
Released
Kevin Kjonaas is an animal rights activist imprisoned as part of the SHAC 7, animal rights activists of the or...
Annette Klapstein
Released
Annette Marie Klapstein is a retired attorney and climate activist who worked for the Puyallup Tribe. On Octob...
Francis Kroncke
Released
Member of the Little Falls raiding team (with Michael Therriault) in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions...
Karl Kuehn
Released
Karl Kuehn was a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in...
Winona LaDuke
Released
Winona LaDuke is an Ojibwe economist, environmentalist, and writer from the White Earth Nation, a co-founder o...
Leo Laukki
Released
Leo Laukki was a university professor and editor of the IWW's Finnish language newspaper from Smithville, Minn...
Isabel Lopez
Released
Isabel "Isa" Lopez is a Minnesota poet, artist, water protector and community organizer. Federal agents arrest...
Polly H. Mann
Released
Polly H. Mann was born in Lonoke, Arkansas, and co-founded Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) with Marianne...
Michael "Rattler" Markus
Released
Michael "Rattler" Markus is water protector and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, SD. Rattler's Lakota name is Ma...
Philip Masonovich
Released
Philip Masonovich was a Montenegrin immigrant iron miner caught up in the 1916 Mesaba Range strike in Minnesot...
CeCe McDonald
Released
Black transgender woman from Minneapolis who became an international symbol of trans resistance after being im...
Marian Mollin
Released
Marian Mollin was a peace activist who later became a historian. She described imprisonment for Honeywell Proj...
Heidi Nybroten
Released
Heidi Nybroten, age 26, of Minneapolis, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.
Don Olson
Released
Member of the Winona raiding team (with Peter Simmons and Brad Beneke) arrested in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota...
Dion Ortiz
Released
Dion Ortiz, a member of San Felipe Pueblo, was prosecuted for civil disorder arising from the October 27, 2016...
Erik Oseland
Released
Erik Oseland was a member of the RNC Welcoming Committee, an anarchist/anti-authoritarian collective that orga...
Edward Palmquist
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
Emily Heather Phillips
Released
Emily Heather Phillips was arrested across the street from Cities Church in Saint Paul on Easter Sunday, April...
Kelly Postal
Released
Kelly Postal was secretary-treasurer of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO. The union supported truck drivers and organ...
Natasha Rakotz
Awaiting Trial
Natasha Rakotz is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demonst...
Cortez Aaron Rice
Released
Cortez Aaron Rice, 32, was charged November 24, 2021 in Minneapolis with felony harassment / retaliation again...
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson
Released
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson was prosecuted for helping set fire to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Pr...
Igal Roodenko
Released
Igal Roodenko was involved in leftist politics and pacifism, spending time during World War II in a camp for c...
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