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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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Charles Plann
Released
Charles Plann, a farmer from Louverne, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to...
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William Riley
Released
William Riley was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
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Dylan Shakespeare Robinson
Released
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson and three co-defendants (Davon De-Andre Turner, Branden Michael Wolfe, Bryce Michae...
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Charles Rowoldt
Released
Charles Rowoldt was a Minneapolis worker, once secretary of the Hennepin County Workers Alliance, whom the gov...
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Alfred Russell
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
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Gabriel Sandberg
Released
Gabriel Sandberg was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
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Oscar Schoenfeld
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
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John L. Seebach
Released
John L. Seebach, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was convicted for writing three letters against the war. He serv...
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Peter Simmons
Released
Member of the Winona raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Dec 3, 1970; because...
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Frank Stevens
Released
Frank Stevens was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
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Henry Stock
Released
Henry Stock appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and...
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Abraham L. Sugarman
Released
Abraham L. Sugarman, from Mankato, Minnesota, was convicted of "obstructing military service" and sentenced to...
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Michael Therriault
Released
Member of the Little Falls raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Jan 18, 1971 a...
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Todd Thompson
Released
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) water protector charged with criminal trespass for the June 2021 Fire Light ceremonial ca...
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Bill Tilton
Released
Member of the Alexandria raiding team arrested in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. Convicted Nov 5,...
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John J. Toevs
Released
John J. Toevs was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-marti...
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George Toteno
Released
George Toteno was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
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Chuck Turchick
Released
Member of the Alexandria raiding team (with Bill Tilton and Cliff Ulen) arrested during the July 10, 1970 Minn...
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Davon De-Andre Turner
Released
On the night of May 28, 2020 after a group of citizens tore down the fence around Minneapolis MPD Third Precin...
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Leo Tuuri
Released
Leo Tuuri was sentenced to 35 days in a 1934 Minneapolis relief demonstration case.
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Cliff Ulen
Released
Member of the Alexandria raiding team in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions. The only one of the eight...
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Leslie Wachter
Released
Leslie Wachter was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal w...
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Jessica Lynn White
Released
Jessica Lynn White, 33, was arrested with co-defendant Matthew Scott White in connection with a fire set at an...
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Matthew Scott White
Released
Matthew Scott White, 31, was arrested in connection with a fire set at an Enterprise Rent-A-Car building in St...
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