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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.

155Documented
8In custody
144Released
1Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Minnesota

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

1910s 43 2020s 38 2010s 20 1940s 16 1970s 11 1980s 9

Documented cases

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

E
Emil Hansen
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
J
John E. Harder
Released
John E. Harder was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-mart...
A
Arthur Hazelton
Released
Arthur Hazelton was sentenced to 90 days in a 1934 Minneapolis relief demonstration case.
K
Knut Heikkinen
Released
Knut Heikkinen was a Finnish-American radical held in the St. Louis County jail in Duluth under the McCarran A...
A
Alexander Steven Heil
Released
On May 28, 2020 as part of ongoing protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Alexander Steven Heil, 24, joine...
K
Kristin Holm
Released
Kristin Holm — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installati...
M
Mohammed Hoque
Released
Mohammed Hoque was a 20-year-old Bangladeshi international student at Minnesota State University, Mankato when...
C
Carlos Hudson
Released
Secretary of the Minneapolis branch of the Socialist Workers Party; editor of "544 Weekly," the newspaper of T...
I
Ivan Harrison Hunter
Released
Ivan Harrison Hunter, 28 (at sentencing in 2022), of Boerne, TX, traveled from Texas to Minnesota in May 2020...
S
Shador Tommie Cortez Jackson
Released
Shador T.C. Jackson, 24, was charged with conspiracy to commit arson with co-defendants Victor D. Edwards and...
C
Carl H. Johnson
Released
Carl H. Johnson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
G
Gunnard Johnson
Released
Gunnard Johnson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...
H
Hjalmaer Johnson
Released
Hjalmaer Johnson was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...
B
Ben Joldersma
Released
Climate activist who served as a support person for the Minnesota "valve turners" during the October 11, 2016...
O
Orval Jordet
Released
Orval Jordet was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for re...
M
Morris Kamman
Released
Morris Kamman was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
J
Justin Keezer
Released
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) water protector charged with criminal trespass for the June 2021 Fire Light ceremonial ca...
M
Mark Kenney
Released
Mark Kenney was sentenced to six months in federal prison at FPC Duluth for trespass at Offutt Air Force Base...
J
John Kos
Released
John Kos was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusi...
F
Francis Kroncke
Released
Member of the Little Falls raiding team (with Michael Therriault) in the July 10, 1970 Minnesota Eight actions...
K
Karl Kuehn
Released
Member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 prosecuted in the 1941 Minneapo...
E
Ernest T. Carl Laub
Released
Ernest T. Carl Laub was a conscientious objector from Minnesota imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed...
P
Polly H. Mann
Released
Born in Lonoke, Arkansas, Polly Mann co-founded Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) with Marianne Hamilton a...
P
Philip Masonovich
Released
Philip Masonovich was a Montenegrin immigrant iron miner caught up in the 1916 Mesaba Range strike in Minnesot...

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