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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.
136Documented
1In custody
94Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Arizona
Where Arizona’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1930s 36
1960s 21
1910s 21
2020s 10
1970s 9
1990s 8
Recent dashboard entries from Arizona
The newest published events and reporting located in Arizona, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Arrest
Border Patrol arrests Lochiel tree defenders before cutting down cottonwood
Arrest
Three land defenders jailed overnight after disrupting border-wall construction in Cochise County
Arrest
Rubio approved a memo to detain Colombian activist Beto Coral, New York Times reports
Arrest
ICE Detains Petro Ally as Trump Accused of Interfering in Colombia Election
Protest
Two UNITE HERE organizers arrested for trespassing while protesting Aramark dining-worker pay at an ASU commencement
Prosecution
A man is indicted for trying to set fire to the Surprise ICE building
Protest
Communities Not Cages rally against the Project Blue data center
Other
A US citizen is detained for hours by ICE at a Phoenix protest
Documented cases
136 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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 was a miner from Globe, Arizona. Joseph A. Oates was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicag...
Dana Rae Park
Released
Dana Rae Park appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draf...
Peter Perruchon
Released
Peter Perruchon was from Tucson, Arizona. Peter Perruchon began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 4...
Loren Reed
Released
Loren Reed, of Page AZ, used a private Facebook group to organize a riot and plan to burn down the Page Magist...
John Robbins
Released
John Robbins was from Miami, Arizona. John Robbins was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in Le...
Bill Rodgers
Released
William Courtney Rodgers, known throughout the radical ecology and animal liberation movements as Avalon, was...
Christopher Ruff
Released
Christopher Ruff is an Arizona First Amendment auditor who publishes police encounters under the name Direct D...
August Sandberg
Released
August Sandberg was from Tucson, Arizona, and was imprisoned for alleged seditious remarks. The official 1921...
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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James Porter
Released
James Porter was a Communist candidate for Arizona secretary of state detained in the prosecution following th...
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Ramon Garcia
Ramon Garcia was a defendant in the Phoenix relief-workers’ strike prosecution of 1934. A contemporary Western...
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Felix Garcia
Felix Garcia was detained in connection with the Phoenix relief-workers’ strike prosecution of 1934. A Novembe...
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Charles H. McCall
Charles H. McCall was a defendant in the prosecution following the Phoenix relief-workers’ strike of 1934. An...
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James B. Carr
James B. Carr was a defendant in the prosecution following the Phoenix relief-workers’ strike of 1934. An Octo...
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Michael Pehle
Michael Pehle had opposed the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in 1979 and refused an imposed fine. On February...
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Akram Musa Abdallah
Released
Akram Musa Abdallah, also known as Abu Saiaf, was born in Jericho, Jordan, and later became a naturalized U.S....
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Ilse Asplund
Released
Ilse Asplund is an Arizona environmental activist and community health educator prosecuted with the Arizona Fi...
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Louis Baltomeo
Released
Louis Baltomeo appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft an...
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John Banks
Released
John Banks appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’ 1968 lists of imprisoned draft and co...
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Jose Barcenas
Jose Barcenas was named among twenty-eight defendants in the Phoenix FERA relief-workers strike prosecution by...
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Paul Barnes
Released
Paul Barnes appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of draft...
Institutions in Arizona
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Arizona that appear in the census’s case files.
Hermosillo penitentiary
7 cases
Federal Correctional Institution, TucsonTucson, Arizona
3 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