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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.
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Steven Evans
Released
Steven Evans was listed among imprisoned draft and conscientious resisters in contemporary CCCO reports from 1...
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E. B. Ford
E. B. Ford was a Minnesota socialist newspaper publisher and former Communist candidate for Congress in the st...
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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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Alexis Georgian
Minneapolis radical bookseller Alexis Georgian was arrested and taken to city jail for extradition to Michigan...
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Robert Gilliam
Released
Robert Gilliam appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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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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Walter Gormly
Released
Walter Ford Gormly was an Iowa engineer and pacifist imprisoned at the federal prison in Sandstone, Minnesota...
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Alfred Grahl
Douglas identifies this St. Paul draft resister as arrested on June 7, 1917. Conviction followed on July 2 and...
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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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F. H. Shoemaker
F. H. Shoemaker, identified as a Farmer-Labor congressman, was arrested while supporting Minneapolis City Mark...
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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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Walter Hagstrom
Released
Walter Hagstrom was an organizer for Minneapolis Local 544-CIO. Federal prosecutors included him in the 1941 c...
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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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Wilber Hardiman
Wilber Hardiman was arrested with James Johnson in Minneapolis in June 1933 after the leader of a mob attempti...
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Arthur Hazelton
Released
Arthur Hazelton was prosecuted after the April 6, 1934 demonstration by Civil Works Administration workers in...
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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...
A
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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Hetry (Minneapolis CWA defendant, 1934)
The May 8, 1934 Minneapolis report names Hetry among defendants sentenced for the April 6 CWA relief demonstra...
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Lynnard Hill
Lynnard Hill was a Black man from St. Paul, Minnesota, whose rape conviction became the subject of a defense c...
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Bill Himmelbauer
Released
Bill Himmelbauer was a Vietnam-era war tax resister associated with Pittsburgh Meeting. He was imprisoned afte...
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Anthony Hintze
Released
Anthony Hintze appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dra...
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Albert Hittock
Albert Hittock was among unemployed workers arrested after the February 25, 1931 Minneapolis relief demonstrat...
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Charles Hittock
Charles Hittock was among unemployed workers arrested after the February 25, 1931 Minneapolis relief demonstra...
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Michael Hoffman
Released
Michael Hoffman appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft a...
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