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Arizona

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 Arizona.

60Documented
0In custody
53Released
2Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in Arizona

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

1910s 21 2020s 8 1900s 7 2010s 6 1980s 5 2000s 4

Documented cases

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

Thomas Banyacya
Released
Thomas Banyacya (born Thomas Jenkins, 1909–1999) was a Hopi spokesman appointed in 1948 by traditional Hopi le...
Klee Benally
Released
Klee Benally was a Diné (Navajo) environmental and Indigenous-rights activist, musician (guitarist in the fami...
Max Biederman
Released
Max Biederman is an activist from Arizona who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Train...
Beto Coral
Released
Franklin Humberto Coral-Garrido, known as Beto Coral, is a Colombian lawyer and leftist activist and an ally o...
Curt Von Einen
Released
Curt Von Einen, from Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to two years in prison and served in Leavenworth Penitenti...
A. S. Embree
Released
A. S. Embree, an IWW officer and editor, was convicted in Shoshone County, Idaho, on June 1, 1921, of violatin...
John Fife
Released
The Reverend John Fife was the pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona and a principal foun...
Cody Andrew Kretsinger
Released
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, known online as recursion, was a member of LulzSec, an offshoot the Justice Department...
W. H. Lewis
Released
W. H. Lewis, a miner and secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 800, in Miami, Arizona,...
Michelle Lunsky
Awaiting Trial
Michelle Lunsky, 33, of Mesa, Arizona, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — alongside...
Laro Nicol
Released
Laro Nicol was an ex-marine and long-time social justice activist in Phoenix Arizona who was involved in Phoen...
Joseph A. Oates
Released
Joseph A. Oates, a miner from Globe, Arizona, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to fiv...
Peter Perruchon
Released
Peter Perruchon, of Tucson, Arizona, began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 4, 1918. 31 °
Loren Reed
Released
Loren Reed, 26, of Page AZ, used a private Facebook group to organize a riot and plan to burn down the Page Ma...
John Robbins
Released
John Robbins, from Miami, Arizona, was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in Leavenworth Penite...
August Sandberg
Released
August Sandberg, from Tucson, Arizona, began serving his two-year sentence for "seditious remarks" on June 4,...
Samuel Ward
Released
Samuel Ward is an activist from Arizona who was arrested on March 5, 2023 at the Atlanta Public Safety Trainin...
Scott Warren
Released
Scott Daniel Warren is a geographer and humanitarian aid volunteer with No More Deaths / No Más Muertes, a Tuc...
Jerry Wheeler
Released
Jerry Wheeler was a participant in the San Francisco-to-Moscow Walk for Peace who left the march to commit civ...
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Akram Abdallah
Released
Akram Abdallah lied to authorities regarding his involvement with the Holy Land Foundation. FBI wiretaps uncov...
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Marc Baker
Released
Marc Baker was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small EMETIC affinity group...
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Rene Christopher Bracamonte
Released
Rene Christopher Bracamonte, age 34, threatened the life of former Vice President Mike Pence at the Westin La...
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Felice Cohen-Joppa
Released
Co-founder and co-publisher of The Nuclear Resister newsletter from 1980 with husband Jack. Documented arrests...
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Jack Cohen-Joppa
Released
Co-founder and co-publisher (with wife Felice) of The Nuclear Resister newsletter, which since 1980 has chroni...

Institutions in Arizona

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Arizona that appear in the census’s case files.

Hermosillo penitentiary
7 cases
Arizona State PenitentiaryFlorence, Arizona
3 cases
Phoenix RRMPhoenix, Arizona
2 cases
Maricopa County Jail (4th Avenue)Phoenix, Arizona
1 case
USP TucsonTucson, Arizona
1 case
Coconino County Detention FacilityFlagstaff, Arizona
1 case
Federal Correctional Institution, PhoenixPhoenix, Arizona
1 case
Pinal County Jail
1 case