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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.

149Documented
0In custody
142Released

Eras of repression in Michigan

Where Michigan’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1910s 33 1950s 23 1970s 18 1930s 16 2020s 14 2010s 12

Documented cases

149 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

A
Anna Ganley
Released
Anna Ganley was a Detroit radical, active in Scottsboro defense and anti-war work, who faced deportation on th...
N
Nat Ganley
Released
Nat Ganley was a Detroit Communist Party leader and auto-union figure prosecuted under the Smith Act during th...
C
Carol Gilbert
Released
Sister Carol Gilbert OP is a Dominican nun of the Grand Rapids Dominicans and longtime resident of Jonah House...
M
Mary Gossman
Released
Mary Gossman was a young worker arrested at the Ford Hunger March in Dearborn, Michigan on 7 March 1932 — "Blo...
S
Saul Grossman
Released
Saul Grossman was the executive secretary of the Michigan Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, convic...
L
Larry Guy
Released
Larry Guy was listed as a Black-liberation political prisoner held at the State Prison of Southern Michigan (J...
V
Vicci Hamlin
Released
Vicci Hamlin, age 60, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline...
J
Jim Hart
Released
On December 12, 1977, U.S. District Judge John Feikens sentenced seven auto workers — "the Trenton 7" — to a w...
J
James Henderson
Released
James Henderson was one of the "Livernois 5," five young Black men swept up in a Detroit police dragnet after...
J
Joseph Holliday
Released
Joseph Holliday was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World Wa...
U
Unto Immonen
Released
Unto Immonen was a Communist convicted under Michigan's criminal-syndicalism ("red flag") law and sentenced to...
H
Henry D. Jackson Jr.
Released
Henry D. Jackson Jr. was a Detroit man who, with Louis Cale (also known as Louis Moore) and Melvin Cale, carri...
L
Leslie Emil Janke
Released
Leslie Emil Janke was a conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
R
Ronald Jordan
Released
Ronald Jordan was one of the "Livernois 5," five young Black men swept up in a Detroit police dragnet after th...
M
Max Kantar
Released
On August 12, 2010, anti-war activists Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar threw cherry pies at U.S. Senator Carl Levi...
J
Jane Anne Kennedy
Released
A nurse and nursing educator with a master's degree, the oldest Beaver 55 member. She took part in scrambling...
B
Benjamin Kopp
Released
Benjamin Kopp was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Co...
H
Helen LaValley
Released
Catholic peace activist and Plowshares disarmament participant arrested in Michigan and held at the Bay County...
D
Douglas Lane
Released
Douglas Lane was one of the "Livernois 5," five young Black men swept up in a Detroit police dragnet after the...
A
Al Larcinese
Released
On December 12, 1977, U.S. District Judge John Feikens sentenced seven auto workers — "the Trenton 7" — to a w...
L
Lisa Leggio
Released
Lisa Leggio, age 35, was one of three women who chained themselves to heavy machinery at an Enbridge pipeline...
A
Axel O. Londall
Released
Axel O. Londall was a Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I....
C
Charles Lyons
Released
Black defendant convicted in the racially asymmetric prosecutions following the June 1943 Detroit race riot —...
L
Lacy MacAuley
Released
Lacy MacAuley, 28, was arrested at a March 5, 2018 disruption of a white-nationalist speaker event at Michigan...

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