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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.
169Documented
8In custody
158Released
1Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Minnesota
Where Minnesota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 43
2020s 38
1940s 29
2010s 20
1970s 11
1980s 10
Documented cases
169 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Joel Doty
Released
Joel Doty was one of four Minnesota farm brothers — sons of William N. Doty of Bruno — who refused on conscien...
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Orin Doty
Released
Orin Doty was one of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to coopera...
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Paul Doty
Released
Paul Doty was one of the four Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, conscientious objectors who refused to cooper...
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Sid Doty
Released
Sid Doty was the youngest of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to...
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Jesse Dunning
Released
Jesse Dunning, a member of the IWW from Bemidji, Minnesota, was arrested for possessing IWW literature. He rec...
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E. A. Engelin
Released
E. A. Engelin, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, began serving a five-year prison sentence on May 4, 1918. 10 °
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Elizabeth Ford
Released
Elizabeth Ford was a Socialist Labor Party editor in Faribault, Minnesota who was convicted under the Espionag...
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Max Geldman
Released
Polish-Jewish-born Trotskyist organizer of WPA workers in Minneapolis. Born in Warsaw and brought to America a...
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Marc Bell Gonzales
Released
On May 28, 2020 as part of ongoing protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Marc Bell Gonzales engaged with...
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Charles Grider
Released
Charles Grider was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal w...
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John Haga
Released
John Haga was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refus...
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Clarence Hamel
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
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Emil Hansen
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
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John E. Harder
Released
John E. Harder was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
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Arthur Hazelton
Released
Arthur Hazelton was sentenced to 90 days in a 1934 Minneapolis relief demonstration case.
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Knut Heikkinen
Released
Knut Heikkinen was a Finnish-American radical held in the St. Louis County jail in Duluth under the McCarran A...
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Alexander Steven Heil
Released
On May 28, 2020 as part of ongoing protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Alexander Steven Heil, 24, joine...
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Mohammed Hoque
Released
Mohammed Hoque was a 20-year-old Bangladeshi international student at Minnesota State University, Mankato when...
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Carlos Hudson
Released
Secretary of the Minneapolis branch of the Socialist Workers Party; editor of "544 Weekly," the newspaper of T...
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Ivan Harrison Hunter
Released
Ivan Harrison Hunter, 28 (at sentencing in 2022), of Boerne, TX, traveled from Texas to Minnesota in May 2020...
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Floyd Hurley
Released
Floyd Hurley was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wor...
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Shador Tommie Cortez Jackson
Released
Shador T.C. Jackson, 24, was charged with conspiracy to commit arson with co-defendants Victor D. Edwards and...
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Carl H. Johnson
Released
Carl H. Johnson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Gunnard Johnson
Released
Gunnard Johnson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
Institutions in Minnesota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Minnesota that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI WasecaWaseca, Minnesota
16 cases
FCI SandstoneSandstone, Minnesota
13 cases
U.S. District Court, District of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota
8 cases
Ramsey County District CourtSt. Paul, Minnesota
7 cases
White Earth Tribal Court
3 cases
FPC DuluthDuluth, Minnesota
1 case
Ramsey County WorkhouseSaint Paul, Minnesota
1 case
ICE detention (Minnesota and Texas facilities)
1 case