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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.
278Documented
7In custody
215Released
15Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Minnesota
Where Minnesota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1910s 52
2020s 50
1940s 44
1930s 33
1970s 25
2010s 19
Recent dashboard entries from Minnesota
The newest published events and reporting located in Minnesota, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Other
Court dismisses lawsuit over ICE treatment of Minnesota protesters
Other
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
Prosecution
The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
Arrest
She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door
Prosecution
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Prosecution
The 15 Direct Action Minnesota defendants plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges over anti-ICE protests
Prosecution
Isabel Lopez receives time served after federal case resolves with one misdemeanor
Protest
Inver Grove Heights council meeting erupts after a data-center moratorium vote is delayed; mayor walks out
Documented cases
278 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Jessica Lynn White
Released
Jessica Lynn White was arrested by federal agents on June 16, 2020 in connection with a fire set at an Enterpr...
Matthew Scott White
Released
Matthew Scott White was federally prosecuted for setting fire to an Enterprise Rent-A-Car building in St. Paul...
Bryce Michael Williams
Released
Bryce Michael Williams was federally prosecuted for helping carry a Molotov cocktail into the Minneapolis Poli...
Carl A. Wold
Released
Carl A. Wold was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions...
Branden Michael Wolfe
Released
Branden Michael Wolfe was federally prosecuted for helping feed a fire at the Minneapolis Police Department’s...
Mena Yousif
Released
Mena Yousif was arrested on February 15, 2021.
Accessory after the fact to arson (helped husband Jose Felan f...
Garrett Ziegler
Released
Garrett Ziegler was arrested on May 29, 2020.
Molotov cocktails into Dakota County courthouse, Apple Valley (...
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Patrick Mulvehill
Patrick Mulvehill began serving a thirty-day sentence on September 12, 1983 for an April 15 Minneapolis protes...
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Eric Gravel
Eric Gravel was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Sadie Green
Sadie Green was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Gloria Cushing
Gloria Cushing was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983...
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Polly Edmunds
Polly Edmunds was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 5 days in jail in 1983...
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Ann Farrer
Ann Farrer was individually named in The Nuclear Resister as having actually served 10 days in jail in 1983 af...
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Jesse James Forrey
Released
Jesse James Forrey was a Santa Cruz, California protester prosecuted after the September 2008 Republican Natio...
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Barbara Mishler
Barbara Mishler was arrested with Barb Katt during the August 1986 Hiroshima remembrance at Honeywell in Minne...
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Jim Miles
Released
Jim Miles, described as a Wisconsin resident, was arrested after praying in the Honeywell lobby in Minneapolis...
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John Ahlborg
John was named Industrialisti-related defendant in the Duluth criminal-syndicalism prosecution. The June 1920...
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Eddie Alberts
Released
Eddie Alberts was a Minneapolis WPA striker imprisoned following the 1939 strike against changes to federal wo...
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Brian Stillwell Apland
Awaiting Trial
Brian Stillwell Apland is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and...
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Joseph Arver
Joseph was a St. Paul draft resister arrested on June 7, 1917.
Douglas identifies this St. Paul draft resiste...
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James Auler
Released
James Auler appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
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Bailey Marie Baldus
Released
Bailey Marie Baldus was seen on surveillance footage with her co-defendants on the night of May 28, 2020.
On...
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James Bartlett
James Bartlett was a Young Communist League activist prosecuted following the April 6, 1934 Minneapolis Civil...
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Dustin Scott Beisell
Awaiting Trial
Dustin Scott Beisell is one of the Minnesota 15, a group federally indicted in June 2026 over organizing and d...
Institutions in Minnesota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Minnesota that appear in the census’s case files.
FCI SandstoneSandstone, Minnesota
21 cases
FCI WasecaWaseca, Minnesota
9 cases
Ramsey County District CourtSt. Paul, Minnesota
7 cases
U.S. District Court, District of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota
5 cases
White Earth Tribal Court
3 cases
Ramsey County JailSt. Paul, Minnesota
2 cases
Hennepin County JailMinneapolis, Minnesota
1 case
FPC DuluthDuluth, Minnesota
1 case