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South Dakota
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 South Dakota.
79Documented
1In custody
66Released
Eras of repression in South Dakota
Where South Dakota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1970s 32
1910s 24
1930s 12
1980s 5
2010s 2
1800s 2
Recent dashboard entries from South Dakota
The newest published events and reporting located in South Dakota, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
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Uranium Mining Permit Hearing in Black Hills Halted
Protest
About 200 protest at the post office in South Dakota's capital for 'No Kings'
Protest
Indivisible 605 holds an ICE Out For Good protest in Sioux Falls
Protest
No Kings protesters take to the streets across South Dakota
Protest
About 1,000 rally on Minnesota Avenue for a Sioux Falls No Kings day of action
Documented cases
79 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
John Graham
In Custody
John Graham is a member of the American Indian Movement and a Native American activist. Graham has spoken in m...
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
Released
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was a Mi'kmaq AIM activist born March 27, 1945 in Indian Brook (Shubenacadie 13), Nova...
Edgar Bear Runner
Released
Edgar Bear Runner was an Oglala Lakota activist with the American Indian Movement. He was arrested and charged...
Gladys Bissonette
Released
Gladys Bissonette was an Oglala Lakota elder and a leader of the traditionalist opposition to Pine Ridge triba...
Pedro Bissonette
Released
Pedro Bissonette was an Oglala Lakota co-founder and executive director of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organ...
Bill Branson
Bill Branson, a Vietnam Veterans Against the War national collective member, was arrested with Bart Savage at...
Regina Brave
Released
Regina Brave is an Oglala Lakota elder and activist from the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. In 1973, at...
Sarah Bad Heart Bull
Released
Mother of a slain Sioux youth who was choked and beaten by a state trooper when she was denied entry to the 19...
Darrelle Dean “Dino” Butler
Released
Darrelle Dean (Dino) Butler was an American Indian Movement organizer present at the Jumping Bull family compo...
Carter Camp
Released
Carter Camp was a Ponca leader of the American Indian Movement and the national AIM officer who led the initia...
Jasilyn Charger
Released
Jasilyn Charger is a Cheyenne River Sioux water protector and land defender who, as a teenager, co-founded the...
Leonard Crow Dog
Released
Leonard Crow Dog was a Sicangu Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader of the American Indian Movement who re...
Mary Crow Dog
Released
Mary Crow Dog, later Mary Brave Bird, was a Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota AIM activist from the Rosebud Reservation a...
Frank Blackhorse
Released
Frank Blackhorse — born Frank Leonard DeLuca and also known as Frank Black Horse — was an American Indian Move...
Greg Grey Cloud
Released
Greg Grey Cloud is a Crow Creek Sioux singer, educator, and activist from South Dakota, and co-founder of Wica...
Crazy Horse
Released
Crazy Horse was an Oglala Lakota war leader, principal Lakota commander at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (J...
Plenty Horses
Released
Plenty Horses was a Sicangu Lakota young man who, nine days after the December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee massacre,...
Sam Jacobs
Released
Sam Jacobs was a teacher from Mobridge, South Dakota. Sam Jacobs was sentenced to two and a half years in pris...
Kevin Barry McKiernan
Journalist Kevin Barry McKiernan described his jailing after reporting from Wounded Knee during the federal pr...
Russell Means
Released
Russell Means was an Oglala Lakota leader of the American Indian Movement and one of the most visible Indigeno...
Ellen Moves Camp
Released
Ellen Moves Camp was an Oglala Lakota activist and co-founder of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization. S...
Leonard Peltier
Released
Leonard Peltier was an organizer with the American Indian Movement. In the early 1970s he was dispatched along...
Robert Robideau
Released
Robert Eugene Robideau was an American Indian Movement organizer and a member of the AIM spiritual encampment...
Mike Roselle
Released
Mike Roselle participated in the 1987 Mount Rushmore protest against acid rain and subsequently served time in...
Institutions in South Dakota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in South Dakota that appear in the census’s case files.
Pennington County JailRapid City, South Dakota
2 cases
South Dakota State PenitentiarySioux Falls, South Dakota
1 case
Fort Meade / Federal Court (Sioux Falls)
1 case
South Dakota Women's PrisonYankton, South Dakota
1 case