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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.
Charles Rowoldt
Released
Charles Rowoldt was a German-born Minneapolis worker and former secretary of the Hennepin County Workers Allia...
Alfred Russell
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
Isaac Auman Sant
Awaiting Trial
Isaac Auman Sant is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demon...
Oscar Schoenfeld
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
Dorothy Holmes Schultz
Released
Dorothy Holmes Schultz was a St. Paul Socialist Workers Party organizer and secretary of the Twin Cities Worke...
Nathanael Secor
Released
Nathanael Secor, age 28, was one of the RNC 8. Pleaded to a misdemeanor; probation plus $200 fine.
Rose Seiler
Released
Rose Seiler was a social worker and business agent of the Minneapolis Office Workers Union, affiliated with th...
Peter Simmons
Released
Member of the Winona raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Dec 3, 1970; because...
Archie Sinclair
Released
Archie Sinclair was a laborer and a writer for Solidarity and The Industrial Worker, from Bemidji, Minnesota....
Carl Skoglund
Released
Carl Skoglund was a Swedish-born Teamster organizer; co-founder of American Trotskyism. Emigrated 1911; joined...
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis
Released
Venezuelan national shot in the leg by ICE Agent Castro on January 14, 2026 during Operation Metro Surge — the...
Max Specktor
Released
Max Specktor, age 21, was one of the RNC 8. Pleaded to a misdemeanor; probation plus $200 fine.
Sigfrid Stenberg
Released
Sigfrid Stenberg was the manager of the IWW paper Alarm, from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sigfrid Stenberg was con...
Dan W. Stevens
Released
Dan W. Stevens was president of Minneapolis Painters Local 186, a Spanish-American War veteran and longtime un...
Alec Stewart
Awaiting Trial
Alec Stewart is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and demonstra...
Arlo Tatum
Released
Arlo De Vere Tatum was an Iowa-born pacifist and draft-registration resister. Quaker testimony documents an in...
Michael Therriault
Released
Member of the Little Falls raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Jan 18, 1971 a...
Bill Tilton
Released
Member of the Alexandria raiding team arrested in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Nov 5,...
Eryn Trimmer
Released
Eryn Trimmer was one of the RNC 8. All charges dropped.
Chuck Turchick
Released
Chuck Turchick participated in the Minnesota Eight draft-board raids of July 10, 1970. Convicted with Bill Til...
Davon De-Andre Turner
Released
Davon De-Andre Turner was federally prosecuted for carrying an incendiary device into the Minneapolis Police D...
Mylene Vialard
Released
Mylene Vialard was arrested during an August 2021 Line 3 pipeline protest in Aitkin County, Minnesota, after o...
Richard Von Korff
Released
Richard (Dick) Von Korff opposed military service on religious and pacifist grounds. He requested conscientiou...
Leslie Wachter
Released
Leslie Wachter was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal w...
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