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Montana
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 Montana.
120Documented
0In custody
64Released
Eras of repression in Montana
Where Montana’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 57
1940s 30
1980s 20
1930s 3
1800s 3
2000s 2
Recent dashboard entries from Montana
The newest published events and reporting located in Montana, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Hundreds gather at the federal courthouse and line the Central Avenue bridge for 'No Kings'
Protest
Missoula scientists rally to Take Back Science against research cuts
Protest
A Billings rally honors Alex Pretti and urges no ICE cooperation
Protest
More than 1,000 line Beartracks Bridge for an ICE Out rally in Missoula
Protest
MSU Students for a Democratic Society protest ICE actions in Bozeman
Protest
A vigil for Renée Good draws about 600 to Beartracks Bridge in Missoula
Protest
About 10,000 march downtown for the Missoula No Kings rally
Protest
Protesters rally as a new tent detention camp opens at Fort Bliss
Documented cases
120 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Susan Silverberg
Susan Silverberg was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula Coun...
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Kim Calender
Kim Calender was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula County J...
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Nancy Putz
Nancy Putz was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula County Jai...
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Bettina Escudero
Bettina Escudero was individually named among four women who actually spent fifteen days each in Missoula Coun...
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Jim Weinberg
Jim Weinberg of Bonner, Montana, entered the R-29 Minuteman III missile-silo site near Great Falls on June 21,...
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Nigel Cottier
Nigel Cottier was arrested for trespass at a Montana nuclear-missile silo on October 24, 1983 as part of the S...
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Will Kerling
Will Kerling was arrested for trespass at a Montana nuclear-missile silo on October 24, 1983 during the Silenc...
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Thornton Kimes
Thornton Kimes protested at Montana Minuteman missile silo R-29 on August 24, 1985, cutting through the securi...
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Robert Walter Becker
Robert Walter Becker was individually listed in custody at Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Missoula, Montana, a...
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Carol Beilin
Carol Beilin was one of five peace campers jailed on $500 bond after protesting a nuclear-weapons train in Con...
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Carol Lee Bellin
Carol Lee Bellin was among five Silence One Silo peace campers jailed overnight in Conrad, Montana, after prot...
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Bernhard Franz Binozyk
Bernhard Franz Binozyk was individually listed in custody at Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Missoula, Montana,...
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Marc Boyd
Marc Boyd was arrested in Kalispell for selling a Daily Worker issue containing Ruby Bates’s letter repudiatin...
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Michael Carter
Michael Carter was an environmental activist convicted for billboard monkeywrenching in Montana. In a signed A...
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Scott Crichton
Scott Crichton was individually named among the ten arrested in the Easter Peace action at Malmstrom Air Force...
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Alexander Cucu
The DOJ/INS roster individually lists Alexander Cucu in actual civilian custody at Fort Missoula, Montana, on...
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Siegfried Fred Ebert
Siegfried Fred Ebert was individually listed in custody at Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Missoula, Montana, a...
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Hermann Ehlers
Hermann Ehlers was individually listed in custody at Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Missoula, Montana, as of F...
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Walter Ludwig Eurich
Walter Ludwig Eurich was individually listed in custody at Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Missoula, Montana, a...
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Bonnie Evans
Bonnie Evans was jailed on April 7, 1985 after an anti-nuclear protest at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
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Edward Foster
Work reports that a mob forced Foster into a flag parade in Lewistown, Montana, on March 27, 1918, after which...
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Charley P. Graber
Released
Charley P. Graber was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Court-mar...
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Albert Hanson
Released
Albert Hanson was jailed in Missoula during a sedition prosecution over remarks expressing support for Germany...
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John Harderson
Released
John Harderson was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Montana imprisoned during World War I. Co...
Institutions in Montana
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Montana that appear in the census’s case files.
Montana State PrisonDeer Lodge, Montana
36 cases
Fort Missoula Internment CampMissoula, Montana
29 cases
Carter County Jail
1 case
Fergus County Jail
1 case
Granite County Jail
1 case
Missoula County Jail
1 case