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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.
148Documented
0In custody
141Released
Eras of repression in Michigan
Where Michigan’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 32
1950s 23
1970s 18
1930s 16
2020s 14
2010s 12
Documented cases
148 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Joseph Basor
Released
Joseph Basor, from Michigan, was sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Dennis Batt
Released
Dennis Elihu Batt was a Detroit tool-and-die maker turned Marxist journalist who became a leading figure of th...
J. H. Beyer
Released
J. H. Beyer was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago and served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Beyer jumpe...
Rod Coronado
Released
An Indigenous animal-rights and environmental activist, Coronado became a prominent figure in underground dire...
Chandler Davis
Released
Horace Chandler Davis was an American-Canadian mathematician, science-fiction writer, and civil-liberties figu...
Peter Dougherty
Released
Catholic priest and Plowshares peace activist arrested in Michigan for a nuclear-weapons disarmament action an...
John Dupree
Riot + destruction of police property, Grand Rapids May 30 2020. Sentence: 180 days incarceration. Verified vi...
Albert Feiron
Released
Albert Feiron, from Detroit, Michigan, received a prison sentence of twenty years, which was commuted to five....
Paige Feyock
Released
Paige Feyock is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...
Harold Studley Gray
Released
Harold Studley Gray of Detroit was a Christian absolutist whose pacifism crystallized while doing YMCA work in...
Zainab Hakim
Released
Zainab Hakim is one of four pro-Palestine activists arrested by the FBI in June 2026 in connection with a prot...
Amin Hasanzadeh
Released
Amin Hasanzadeh was arrested in late 2019 and later indicted in a case alleging unlawful export of technology...
Jackie Hudson
Released
Sister Jacqueline 'Jackie' Hudson OP was a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids and a longtime anti-nuclear organi...
Oliva Hull
Riot + breaking and entering + malicious destruction, Grand Rapids May 30 2020. Sentence: 1 year Kent County j...
Dave Ingar
Released
Dave Ingar, an ironworker from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted at the mass YWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to...
Fred Jaakkola
Released
Fred Jaakkola, from Detroit, Michigan, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years...
Marius Mason
Released
Marius Mason is an environmental and animal rights activist. In 1999, while a member of the Earth Liberation F...
Frank Monparler
Released
Frank Monparler, of Detroit, Michigan, began serving a prison sentence on July 17, 1918.
Joseph E. Mulligan
Released
A Jesuit seminarian (Society of Jesus) at the time, age 25, Mulligan was one of the fifteen who on May 25, 196...
Emily Murphy
Released
Emily Murphy, 37, is an activist from Grosse Ile, Michigan. On January 21, 2023, she was arrested during a pro...
Howard Eugene Nall
Released
Howard Nall is a protestor who, while attending a Black Lives Matter protest in Grand Rapids, was arrested and...
Rev. Edward Pinkney
Released
Rev. Edward Pinkney is the founder of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization and a leader in the strugg...
George Pirinsky
Released
George Pirinsky arrived in America from Bulgaria in 1923 with little money or English, and within a few years...
Pun Plamondon
Released
Lawrence Robert "Pun" Plamondon, of Ottawa/Odawa descent, co-founded the White Panther Party with John Sinclai...
Institutions in Michigan
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Michigan that appear in the census’s case files.
Theodore Levin United States CourthouseDetroit, Michigan
4 cases
FCI MilanMilan, Michigan
3 cases
Bay County JailBay City, Michigan
3 cases
Wayne County Jail
3 cases
Marquette State PrisonMarquette, Michigan
2 cases
Detroit RRMMilan, Michigan
1 case
Federal Detention Center, DetroitDetroit, Michigan
1 case
Federal Correctional Institution, MilanMilan, Michigan
1 case