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South 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 South Dakota.
64Documented
1In custody
57Released
Eras of repression in South Dakota
Where South Dakota’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1970s 26
1910s 23
1930s 5
1980s 4
2010s 2
1800s 2
Documented cases
64 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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Michael J. Mandel
Released
Michael J. Mandel was a Hutterite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Cour...
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Richard Marshall
Released
Richard Marshall was an Oglala Lakota member of the American Indian Movement known to supporters as the Oglala...
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Geneva Red Feather
Released
Geneva Red Feather was one of five defendants convicted of attempting to interfere with U.S. Marshals and FBI...
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Edwin S. Reitz
Released
Edwin S. Reitz, from Aberdeen, South Dakota, began serving a five-year prison sentence on May 16, 1918. He was...
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Louis Rieck
Released
Louis Rieck was one of seventeen anti-eviction farmers charged with rioting — facing up to ten years — at Siss...
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William Rieck
Released
William Rieck was one of seventeen anti-eviction farmers charged with rioting — facing up to ten years — at Si...
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Mike Roselle
Released
Mike Roselle participated in the 1987 Mount Rushmore protest against acid rain and subsequently served time in...
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James Schmidt
Released
James Schmidt was an itinerant IWW member prosecuted at Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1915 for killing a railroad...
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Phillip Templeton
Released
Phillip Templeton participated in the 1987 Mount Rushmore protest against acid rain and subsequently served ti...
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Peter M. Waldner
Released
Peter M. Waldner was a Mennonite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Court...
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Julius Walstadt
Released
Julius Walstadt was one of seventeen anti-eviction farmers charged with rioting — facing up to ten years — at...
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Jacob M. Walter
Released
Jacob M. Walter was a Mennonite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Court-...
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Joseph M. Walter
Released
Joseph M. Walter was a Mennonite conscientious objector from South Dakota imprisoned during World War I. Court...
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Edward Waltner
Released
Edward J. B. Waltner, a General Conference Mennonite from Marion Junction, South Dakota, was drafted in 1917 a...
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Martina White Bear
Released
Martina White Bear was one of five defendants convicted of attempting to interfere with U.S. Marshals and FBI...
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Jacob Wipf
Released
Jacob Wipf, a Hutterite from the Rockport Colony in South Dakota and brother-in-law of the Hofers, was the fou...
Institutions in South Dakota
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in South Dakota that appear in the census’s case files.
Pennington County JailRapid City, South Dakota
2 cases
South Dakota State PenitentiarySioux Falls, South Dakota
1 case
Fort Meade / Federal Court (Sioux Falls)
1 case
South Dakota Women's PrisonYankton, South Dakota
1 case