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Minnesota
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.
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G. D. Brewer
Released
G. D. Brewer appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions an...
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Allan S. Broms
Released
Allan S. Broms appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
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Allen S. Broms
Released
Allen S. Broms was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Axel W. Carlson
Released
Axel W. Carlson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
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Richard A. Carlson
Released
Richard A. Carlson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
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Richard Connell
Released
Richard Connell was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal...
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Charles Connors
Released
Charles Connors was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal...
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Jake Cooper
Released
Minneapolis Teamster who served as one of Leon Trotsky's bodyguards at Coyoacán, Mexico for four months in 194...
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Ralph Core
Released
Ralph Core was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal work-...
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George W. Crocker
Released
One of Minnesota's longest-serving energy and anti-nuclear activists, working since the late 1970s on energy-d...
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Robert Czernik
Released
Robert Czernik, age 35, was one of the RNC 8 indicted for organizing affinity-group disruption of the 2008 RNC...
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E.H. Daniels
Released
E.H. Daniels was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
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S. K. Davis
Released
S. K. Davis was sentenced to 50 days in a 1934 Minneapolis relief demonstration case.
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Matthew DePalma
Released
Anarchist convicted of illegally possessing Molotov cocktails allegedly intended to be used at the 2008 Republ...
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Joel Doty
Released
Joel Doty was one of four Minnesota farm brothers — sons of William N. Doty of Bruno — who refused on conscien...
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Orin Doty
Released
Orin Doty was one of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to coopera...
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Paul Doty
Released
Paul Doty was one of the four Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, conscientious objectors who refused to cooper...
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Sid Doty
Released
Sid Doty was the youngest of the four conscientious-objector Doty brothers of Bruno, Minnesota, who refused to...
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Jesse Dunning
Released
Jesse Dunning, a member of the IWW from Bemidji, Minnesota, was arrested for possessing IWW literature. He rec...
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E. A. Engelin
Released
E. A. Engelin, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, began serving a five-year prison sentence on May 4, 1918. 10 °
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Carrie Feldman
Released
Minneapolis anarchist and animal-rights activist jailed during the Green Scare for refusing to cooperate with...
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Garrett Fitzgerald
Released
Garrett Fitzgerald, age 27, was one of the RNC 8. Pleaded to a misdemeanor; probation plus $200 fine.
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Elizabeth Ford
Released
Elizabeth Ford was a Socialist Labor Party editor in Faribault, Minnesota who was convicted under the Espionag...
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Max Geldman
Released
Polish-Jewish-born Trotskyist organizer of WPA workers in Minneapolis. Born in Warsaw and brought to America a...
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