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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

Documented cases

279 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Frank Westerlund
Released
Frank Westerlund was an IWW organizer from Duluth, Minnesota. Frank Westerlund was convicted at the mass IWW t...
Jessica Lynn White
Released
Jessica Lynn White, 33, was arrested by federal agents on June 16, 2020 in connection with a fire set at an En...
Matthew Scott White
Released
Matthew Scott White was federally prosecuted for setting fire to an Enterprise Rent-A-Car building in St. Paul...
Bryce Michael Williams
Released
Bryce Michael Williams was federally prosecuted for helping carry a Molotov cocktail into the Minneapolis Poli...
Carl A. Wold
Released
Carl A. Wold was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
Branden Michael Wolfe
Released
Branden Michael Wolfe was federally prosecuted for helping feed a fire at the Minneapolis Police Department’s...
Mena Yousif
Released
Accessory after the fact to arson (helped husband Jose Felan flee); held ~7 months pretrial. Sentence: Time se...
Garrett Ziegler
Released
Molotov cocktails into Dakota County courthouse, Apple Valley (May 2020). Sentence: 60 months federal prison....
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Darrian Mitchell Nguyen
In Custody
Darrian Mitchell Nguyen was an Anoka, Minnesota, defendant investigated after an informant reported that he po...
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Patrick Mulvehill
Patrick Mulvehill began serving a thirty-day sentence on September 12, 1983 for an April 15 Minneapolis protes...
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Eric Gravel
Eric Gravel was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Sadie Green
Sadie Green was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Gloria Cushing
Gloria Cushing was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983...
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Polly Edmunds
Polly Edmunds was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983...
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Ann Farrer
Ann Farrer was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 10 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Jesse James Forrey
Jesse James Forrey was a Santa Cruz, California protester prosecuted after the September 2008 Republican Natio...
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Barbara Mishler
Barbara Mishler was arrested with Barb Katt during the August 1986 Hiroshima remembrance at Honeywell in Minne...
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Jim Miles
Jim Miles, described as a Wisconsin resident, was arrested after praying in the Honeywell lobby in Minneapolis...
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John Ahlborg
Named Industrialisti-related defendant in the Duluth criminal-syndicalism prosecution. The June 1920 report in...
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Eddie Alberts
Released
Eddie Alberts was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
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Brian Stillwell Apland
Awaiting Trial
Brian Stillwell Apland is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and...
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Joseph Arver
Douglas identifies this St. Paul draft resister as arrested on June 7, 1917. Conviction followed on July 2 and...
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James Auler
Released
James Auler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Bailey Marie Baldus
Released
On the night of May 28, 2020 Bailey Marie Baldus, 19, was caught on surveillance camera with co-defendants Mck...

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