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Michigan
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 Michigan.
336Documented
0In custody
216Released
8Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Michigan
Where Michigan’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 74
1980s 51
1910s 47
1920s 34
1950s 22
2020s 20
Recent dashboard entries from Michigan
The newest published events and reporting located in Michigan, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Prosecution
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
Arrest
Five protesters arrested after an anti-ICE march reached the Grand Rapids ICE field office
Arrest
Police report 22 arrests during an anti-Islam demonstration and counterprotest outside Dearborn's council meeting
Prosecution
Four pro-Palestine activists released on bond after FBI arrests
Prosecution
DOJ Targets Michigan Palestine Solidarity Activists With Federal Charges
Arrest
8 arrested in FBI raids related to pro-Palestine advocacy at University of Michigan
Protest
UAW Local 2093 strikes American Axle over stagnant wages
Protest
Hundreds marched in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a nationwide general strike against the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis (no arrests)
Documented cases
336 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Belle Yount
Belle Yount was photographed in a Kalamazoo jail cell during the 1912 corset workers’ strike.
Ali Khalid Abdullah
Released
Ali Khalid Abdullah was a Black Muslim anarchist and Michigan prison organizer. He was imprisoned in 1990 afte...
Marc Aisen
Released
Marc William Aisen, a Massachusetts man, was arrested in late 2023 and held in Oakland County Jail in Michigan...
John Anderson
Released
John Anderson was the Communist candidate for governor of Michigan in 1934. The Daily Worker, August 20, 1934,...
Joseph Basor
Released
Joseph Basor was from Michigan. Joseph Basor was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth P...
Dennis Batt
Released
Dennis Batt was a Detroit tool-and-die maker turned Marxist journalist who became a leading figure of the left...
Max Bedacht
Max Bedacht was individually named among Communist leaders prosecuted in connection with the 1922 Bridgman con...
J. H. Beyer
Released
J. H. Beyer was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Beyer jumpe...
Caravas
Released
Caravas (Detroit, 1930) was one of five Detroit workers identified in a July 1930 Labor Defender photograph as...
Barb Carter
Released
Barbara Carter was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline worksi...
Josephine Casey
Released
Josephine Casey was a labor organizer who helped lead the 1912 Kalamazoo corset workers’ strike over wages and...
Stefan Cojerean
Released
Stefan Cojerean was one of five Detroit workers sentenced to 90 days in jail for holding a workers' meeting, p...
Conn
Released
Conn (Detroit, 1930) was one of five Detroit workers identified in a July 1930 Labor Defender photograph as se...
Rod Coronado
Released
Rod Coronado is a Pascua Yaqui animal-rights and environmental activist associated with the Animal Liberation...
Chandler Davis
Released
Chandler Davis was detained on February 2, 1960.
Horace Chandler Davis was an American-Canadian mathematician...
Peter Dougherty
Released
Peter was a Catholic priest and Plowshares peace activist arrested in Michigan for a nuclear-weapons disarmame...
Glanton Dowdell
Released
Glanton Dowdell was a Detroit artist and Black labor organizer associated with the League of Revolutionary Bla...
John Dupree
Released
John was sentenced to jail for offenses arising from the May 30, 2020 Grand Rapids unrest.
Riot + destruction...
Thomas Dutton
Released
Thomas Dutton was a 70-year-old Detroit carpenter and railwayman, in the United States about 46 years, ordered...
Albert Feiron
Released
Albert Feiron was from Detroit, Michigan. Albert Feiron received a prison sentence of twenty years, which was...
Paige Elizabeth Feyock
Awaiting Trial
Paige Feyock is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...
Nat Ganley
Released
Nat Ganley was a Detroit Communist Party organizer prosecuted under the Smith Act. A jury convicted him on Feb...
Carol Gilbert
Released
Sister Carol Gilbert OP is a Dominican nun of the Grand Rapids Dominicans and longtime resident of Jonah House...
Harold Studley Gray
Released
Harold Studley Gray was a Christian absolutist whose pacifism crystallized while doing YMCA work in a German p...
Institutions in Michigan
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Michigan that appear in the census’s case files.
Federal Correctional Institution, MilanMilan, Michigan
6 cases
FCI MilanMilan, Michigan
3 cases
Bay County JailBay City, Michigan
3 cases
Michigan State Prison (Jackson)
3 cases
Wayne County Jail
3 cases
State Prison of Southern MichiganJackson, Michigan
2 cases
Marquette State PrisonMarquette, Michigan
2 cases
Detroit RRMMilan, Michigan
1 case