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North Dakota
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 North Dakota.
974Documented
3In custody
29Released
Eras of repression in North Dakota
Where North Dakota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1940s 931
1930s 18
2020s 7
1980s 7
2010s 6
1910s 4
Recent dashboard entries from North Dakota
The newest published events and reporting located in North Dakota, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
About 75 people rally at the William L. Guy Federal Building against increased ICE detentions in Bismarck
Other
Army Corps grants the Dakota Access easement under Lake Oahe; Standing Rock Sioux vow to fight for their treaty rights
Protest
Fargo-Moorhead protesters gather amid a blizzard to oppose ICE actions
Protest
A reported JD Vance visit draws a protest at the Applied Digital data center site
Protest
About 150 gather in Grand Forks to protest ICE after the Renée Good killing
Protest
Hundreds in Minot join the nationwide No Kings protest
Protest
Hundreds rally at the North Dakota Capitol for No Kings
Protest
Thousands rally at Fargo City Hall for the No Kings day of defiance
Documented cases
974 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Walter Gustav Feltz
Walter Gustav Feltz is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Inte...
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Robert K. H. Femchel
Robert K. H. Femchel is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Int...
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Frank Fendt
Frank Fendt is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment C...
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Ed Ferguson
Released
Edward Ferguson was a United Farmers’ League activist in the Westby area on the North Dakota–Montana border. A...
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Hugo Fick
Hugo Fick is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment Cam...
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Otto Fickert
Otto Fickert is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Ernst Adolf Fred Finke
Ernst Adolf Fred Finke is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln I...
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Arno Fischer
Arno Fischer is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Gustav L. Fischer
Gustav L. Fischer is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Intern...
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Karl Fitting
Karl Fitting is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Karl Fittkau
Karl Fittkau is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Hugo Flasch
Hugo Flasch is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment C...
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Johann Flintjer
Johann Flintjer is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internme...
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Willy Fluegel
Willy Fluegel is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Adolf Foerster
Adolf Foerster is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internmen...
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Heinrich Foerster
Heinrich Foerster is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Intern...
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Martin Forkin
Martin Forkin was identified as a leader of the 1931 Estevan strike in Canada and a militant worker held in Un...
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Edmund Alfons Formella
Edmund Alfons Formella is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln I...
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Franz J. Frank
Franz J. Frank is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internmen...
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William Freinick
William Freinick is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internm...
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Richard Frey
Richard Frey is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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John Freymadl
John Freymadl is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internment...
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Joachim F. Frick
Joachim F. Frick is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln Internm...
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Carl Julius Friedewald
Carl Julius Friedewald is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Fort Lincoln I...
Institutions in North Dakota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in North Dakota that appear in the census’s case files.
Fort Lincoln Internment CampBismarck, North Dakota
815 cases
Morton County District CourtMandan, North Dakota
1 case
Cass County JailFargo, North Dakota
1 case
North Dakota state prisonFargo, North Dakota
1 case
U.S. District Court, District of North DakotaFargo, North Dakota
1 case
North Dakota state prison (Cass County)Fargo, North Dakota
1 case