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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.
Larry Guy
Released
Larry Guy was listed as a Black-liberation political prisoner held at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (J...
Zainab Aliasgar Hakim
Awaiting Trial
Zainab Aliasgar Hakim is one of eight Palestine-solidarity activists federally indicted in May 2026 over a Uni...
Vicci Hamlin
Released
Vicci Hamlin was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline worksite...
Amin Hasanzadeh
Released
Amin Hasanzadeh, also spelled Amin Hassanzadeh, is an Iranian electrical engineer born in Iran. He became a U....
Jackie Hudson
Released
Sister Jacqueline 'Jackie' Hudson OP was a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids and a longtime anti-nuclear organi...
Oliva Hull
Released
Oliva was sentenced to jail for offenses arising from the May 30, 2020 Grand Rapids unrest.
Riot + breaking a...
Dave Ingar
Released
Dave Ingar was an ironworker from Detroit, Michigan. Dave Ingar was convicted at the mass YWW trial in Chicago...
Fred Jaakkola
Released
Fred Jaakkola was a Detroit member of the Industrial Workers of the World convicted in the 1918 Chicago IWW ma...
Max Kantar
Released
Max Kantar is an anti-war activist who read a statement challenging U.S. Senator Carl Levin’s support for U.S....
Karo
Karo was a Daily Worker newspaper seller in the Detroit and Dearborn area. The June 27, 1934 Daily Worker repo...
Jack Kevorkian
Released
Jack Kevorkian was an assisted-dying campaigner imprisoned in Michigan following his second-degree murder conv...
Lisa Leggio
Released
Lisa Leggio was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline worksite...
Lacy MacAuley
Released
Lacy MacAuley, a Washington, D.C. activist, was arrested during the March 5, 2018 protests against Richard Spe...
Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka
Released
Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, born in Aleppo and widely known by the stage name Abu Rateb, is a Syrian singer...
Marius Mason
Released
Marius Mason is an environmental and animal rights activist. In 1999, while a member of the Earth Liberation F...
Ahlam Mohsen
Released
Ahlam Mohsen is a Yemeni-American anti-war activist who pressed a crustless apple pie into U.S. Senator Carl L...
Dennis J. Moloney
Released
Dennis J. Moloney was one of the D.C. Nine, who entered Dow Chemical’s Washington offices on March 22, 1969 an...
Frank Monparler
Released
Frank Monparler was from Detroit, Michigan. Frank Monparler began serving a prison sentence on July 17, 1918.
Joseph E. Mulligan
Released
Joseph E. Mulligan was arrested on May 25, 1969.
A Jesuit seminarian (Society of Jesus) at the time, age 25,...
Emily Murphy
Released
Emily Murphy is an activist from Grosse Ile, Michigan. On January 21, 2023, she was arrested during a protest...
Howard Eugene Nall
Released
Howard Nall is a protestor who, while attending a Black Lives Matter protest in Grand Rapids, was arrested and...
Filipina Narciso
Released
Filipina Narciso was one of two Filipina immigrant nurses at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Ann...
Jim Nichols
Released
James Douglas Nichols, a farmer in Decker, Michigan, was held as a material witness during the Oklahoma City b...
Stanley Nowak
Released
Stanley Nowak was a Detroit labor leader and former Michigan state senator. The federal government brought a c...
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