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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 Colorado.
160Documented
3In custody
108Released
Eras of repression in Colorado
Where Colorado’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1980s 30
1930s 26
1950s 20
1910s 13
2010s 10
1970s 10
Recent dashboard entries from Colorado
The newest published events and reporting located in Colorado, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Judge allows assault prosecution of GEO Group employee accused of shooting Aurora ICE protester
Prosecution
Four Centennial anti-ICE protesters notified of planned state-charge dismissal
Prosecution
Denver police cite three people after an anti-ICE student walkout at La Alma-Lincoln Park
Arrest
Four people arrested during the Project Taurus data-center hearing in Colorado Springs
Arrest
Four anti-ICE demonstrators arrested during a die-in outside the Centennial ICE field office
Arrest
ICE facility employee in Aurora arrested after shooting protestor, police say
Prosecution
A CBP officer is charged with assault over the Durango ICE protest
Protest
Sheridan teachers strike and picket over a stalled contract
Documented cases
160 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Sol Greenberg
Sol Greenberg was a nineteen-year-old Young Communist League member detained with Michael Shantzek for distrib...
A
Abdel Mohsen Hamouda
Released
Abdel Mohsen Hamouda was an Egyptian in Denver arrested without a warrant on November 30, 1951 and held incomm...
E
E. Harris
Released
E. Harris was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World War I. Court-...
F
Frank Emerson Harris
Released
Frank Emerson Harris was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World Wa...
A
Alfred Hassan
Alfred Hassan was a Black Panther prisoner and prison-conditions organizer in Denver County Jail in 1969. Fell...
T
Timothy Hummel
Released
Timothy Hummel, of Denver, sent threatening messages in 2019 to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement off...
A
Allison Hunter
Released
Allison (Allyson) Hunter was a Seattle-based anti-nuclear activist arrested repeatedly at the Rocky Flats Plan...
B
Bakhtiyor Jumaev
Bakhtiyor Jumaev, born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, was a Muslim immigrant living in Pennsylvania when arrested o...
A
Anna Koop
Released
Anna Koop was individually identified in this anti-nuclear imprisonment. The Palm Sunday report individually n...
R
Ruthven H. Lacey
Released
Ruthven H. Lacey was a conscientious objector from Colorado imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
B
Brett Manlove
Released
Brett Manlove appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
S
Samuel Menin
Samuel Menin was arrested on October 24, 1932.
The October 25 dispatch reports the ILD lawyer arrested the pr...
D
Dale Noyd
Released
Captain Dale Noyd was a decorated Air Force fighter pilot, psychology professor at the Air Force Academy, and...
F
Frank L. Palmer
Released
Frank L. Palmer was a labor journalist and editor prominent in 1920s Colorado. He edited the Colorado Labor Ad...
S
Susan Marie Parker
Released
Susan Marie Parker was a 21-year-old member of Students for a Democratic Society from Colorado Springs who was...
A
Albert Pezzati
Released
Albert Pezzati was the former secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers...
J
John Pope
Released
John Pope appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft an...
F
Fred Reskin
Fred Reskin of the Council of the Unemployed was the individually named person arrested during Denver’s Januar...
D
Dave E. Robb
Dave E. Robb was a labor songwriter whom Tillman Cadle recalled being jailed during a Colorado labor dispute....
M
Marge Roberts
Released
Marge Roberts was individually identified in this anti-nuclear imprisonment. The Palm Sunday report individual...
J
Jane Rogers
Released
Jane Rogers was among the Colorado Communists jailed for contempt in Denver in 1948 for refusing to cooperate...
J
John Roller
Released
John Roller appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
A
Aurora Samson
Aurora Samson was a waitress and supporter of the Colorado coal miners’ strike. A Lafayette dispatch dated Dec...
A
Albert Sanchez
Albert Sanchez was an Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union organizer in Denver. The April 18, 1931 Daily Wor...
Institutions in Colorado
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Colorado that appear in the census’s case files.
FDC EnglewoodLittleton, Colorado
4 cases
Jefferson County Jail
4 cases
Las Animas County Jail
4 cases
ADX FlorenceFlorence, Colorado
3 cases
Colorado State PenitentiaryCañon City, Colorado
3 cases
Mount San Rafael Hospital / Trinidad jail (militia custody)Trinidad, Colorado
1 case
Denver County JailDenver, Colorado
1 case
Colorado Department of Corrections
1 case