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Maine
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 Maine.
15Documented
0In custody
15Released
Eras of repression in Maine
Where Maine’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1920s 4
2020s 3
1970s 3
1910s 2
2010s 1
1960s 1
Documented cases
15 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Francis Carroll
Released
Francis Carroll, 22, is a pro-forest, anti-Cop City activist from Kennebunkport, Maine. On January 21, 2023, h...
Colin Dorsey
Released
Colin Dorsey is an activist from Maine who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Training...
Dan Fallon
Released
Dan Fallon was imprisoned at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in the mid-1920s and appears on the Internati...
Michael X. Mockus
Released
Michael X. Mockus, A Lithuanian-born immigrant to the U.S., Mockus became known for outspoken freethought and...
Timothy Murphy
Released
Activist from Maine who spent the night of January 18-19, 2023 in a treehouse in the Weelaunee forest in Atlan...
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Joseph Aceto
Released
Joseph "Joey" Aceto was an early participant in the Maine prison–rooted militant left of the mid-1970s — docum...
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James Barrett
Released
James W. Barrett was convicted of the October 4, 1975 armed robbery of the Northeast Bank's Lunts Corner branc...
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Peter Dirks
Released
Peter Dirks was imprisoned at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in the mid-1920s and appears on the Internat...
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Mitchell Goodman
Released
Mitchell Goodman was a novelist and antiwar activist (and husband of the poet Denise Levertov) who helped orga...
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Thomas Harty
Released
Thomas Harty was one of the marine transport workers imprisoned at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston in the...
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Suzanne Muscara
Released
Suzanne Muscara, age 37, mailed a threatening letter containing fake anthrax to Republican Senator Susan Colli...
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Harold Nathans
Released
Harold Nathans was a conscientious objector from Maine imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...
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Neils Randquist
Released
Neils Randquist — his name mangled to Nell Randqulst by the optical scan of the contemporary prisoner birthday...
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Sukie Rice
Released
AFSC staffer in Boston who, with Elizabeth Boardman, designed and led the nonviolence training that made the A...
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Moses Sleeper
Released
Moses Sleeper was a Quaker attender in Maine (then part of Massachusetts) during the American Revolution who r...
Institutions in Maine
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Maine that appear in the census’s case files.
Maine State PrisonThomaston, Maine
4 cases
Bath Iron WorksBath, Maine
1 case
Bath Iron Works (USS Gettysburg) — Aegis Plowshares
1 case