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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 Minnesota.

169Documented
8In custody
158Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Minnesota

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

1910s 43 2020s 38 1940s 29 2010s 20 1970s 11 1980s 10

Documented cases

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

Harry DeBoer
Released
Minneapolis coal-yard Teamster; leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, credited with developing the...
Scott DeMuth
Released
Minneapolis anarchist, Dakota activist, and University of Minnesota anthropology graduate student prosecuted d...
Farrell Dobbs
Released
Teamsters organizer who led the 1938-41 over-the-road truck driver organizing drives bringing a quarter-millio...
Vincent Raymond Dunne
Released
Central leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike; co-founder of American Trotskyism. Joined the IWW in...
Red Fawn Fallis
Released
Red Fawn Fallis is a native rights activist who was a leader in the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Movement. W...
Jose Angel Felan
Released
On May 28, 2020 Jose Felan was observed on CCTV setting fires in and around a Goodwill and Napa Auto Parts in...
Mike Forcia
Released
Anishinaabe (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) American Indian Movement organizer in Minnesota. Led the...
Samuel Frey
Released
Conspiracy to commit arson, St. Paul store (May 2020). Sentence: 27 months federal prison. Verified via public...
Dallas Goldtooth
Released
Dallas Goldtooth is a Mdewakanton Dakota and Diné environmental activist, comedian, and actor enrolled in the...
Tom Goldtooth
Released
Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Diné (Navajo) and Bdewakantonwan Dakota, is the longtime executive director of the Indigen...
Henry Hammer
Released
Henry Hammer, a teamster from Osseu, Minnesota, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramentoand sentenced...
Robert Harden
Released
Robert Harden, an IWW member from Duluth, Minnesota, was convicted of threatening the life of the president of...
Aditya Wahyu Harsono
Released
Aditya Wahyu Harsono is an Indonesian citizen, recent Southwest Minnesota State University graduate, and suppl...
Shador Jackson
Released
Shador Jackson is a Richfield, Minnesota man who used a construction sign to break the glass entrance of Targe...
Emily Johnston
Released
Seattle-based poet and Valve Turner who shut off Enbridge tar sands pipelines near Leonard, Minnesota on Octob...
Linwood Kaine
Obstructing legal process at March 2017 St. Paul counter-protest. Sentence: 4 days jail + probation. Verified...
Barbara Katt
Released
Barbara Katt was a painter and peace activist in Bemidji, Minnesota who on August 10, 1984 walked into the Spe...
Abdul Maumin Khabir
Released
Abdul Maumin Khabir is a falsely accused political prisoner, sentenced to life under RICO laws. He was indicte...
Kevin Kjonaas
Released
Kevin Kjonaas is an animal rights activist imprisoned as part of the SHAC 7, animal rights activists of the or...
Annette Klapstein
Released
Retired attorney and Valve Turner who acted with Emily Johnston to shut off Enbridge tar sands pipelines near...
Winona LaDuke
Released
Winona LaDuke is an Ojibwe economist, environmentalist, and writer from the White Earth Nation, a co-founder o...
Leo Laukki
Released
Leo Laukki, a university professor and editor of the IWW's Finnish language newspaper from Smithville, Minneso...
Michael "Rattler" Markus
Released
Michael "Rattler" Markus is water protector and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, SD. Rattler's Lakota name is Ma...
CeCe McDonald
Released
Black transgender woman from Minneapolis who became an international symbol of trans resistance after being im...

Institutions in Minnesota

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Minnesota that appear in the census’s case files.

FCI WasecaWaseca, Minnesota
16 cases
FCI SandstoneSandstone, Minnesota
13 cases
U.S. District Court, District of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota
8 cases
Ramsey County District CourtSt. Paul, Minnesota
7 cases
White Earth Tribal Court
3 cases
FPC DuluthDuluth, Minnesota
1 case
Ramsey County WorkhouseSaint Paul, Minnesota
1 case
ICE detention (Minnesota and Texas facilities)
1 case