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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.

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J. D. Conovaloff
Released
J. D. Conovaloff was one of six Molokan absolutists from the Glendale, Arizona community — Russian sectarian p...
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Jake Conovaloff
Released
Jake Conovaloff was a Molokan conscientious objector from Arizona imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...
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Jacob Convaloff
Released
Jacob Convaloff was a conscientious objector from Arizona imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for r...
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James A. Corbett
Released
Born in Casper, Wyoming, Corbett earned a BA from Colgate and an MA in philosophy from Harvard before turning...
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Thomas Costanzo
Released
Thomas Mario Costanzo, known online as "Morpheus Titania," was an anarchist and agorist activist in Mesa, Ariz...
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Margo Cowan
Released
Margo Cowan was the director of the Manzo Area Council, a Tucson social-service agency that helped undocumente...
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Matthew Crozier
Released
Matthew Crozier, an Esquire Magazine writer, was charged with Rod Coronado in 2005 for entering Sabino Canyon...
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Mark Davis
Released
Mark Davis was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small affinity group that c...
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Patrick Michael Gerola
Released
Patrick Michael Gerola, age 56, was arrested 100 yards from a Florence AZ ICE prison parking lot on December 3...
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Carlos Humbert
Carlos Humbert was a Partido Liberal Mexicano refugee seized in Arizona in autumn 1906 and turned over to Mexi...
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Ivan Kulikoff
Released
Ivan W. Kulikoff was one of the six Molokan absolutists from Glendale, Arizona who refused the WWI draft. Cour...
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John Kulikoff
Released
John Kulikoff was a conscientious objector from Arizona imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Thomas Martinez
Released
Thomas Martinez, from Tucson, Arizona, began serving a three-year prison sentence on June 4, 1918.
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Peg Millett
Released
Peg Millett (Margaret Millett) was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small E...
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Clay Naff
Released
Clay Naff was a militant leader of the 1935 Phoenix, Arizona FERA relief-workers' strike. Arrested and charged...
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Darlene Nicgorski
Released
Sister Darlene Nicgorski was a School Sister of St. Francis who became a leading organizer of the Sanctuary Mo...
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Leif Kingfisher Nicholas Novak
Awaiting Trial
Leif Kingfisher Nicholas Novak is defendant #42 of the 61 people indicted on September 5, 2023 under the Georg...
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Lázaro Puente
Lázaro Puente was a Partido Liberal Mexicano refugee seized in Arizona in autumn 1906 and turned over to Mexic...
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Raynaldo Rivera
Released
Raynaldo Rivera, known online as neuron, royal and wildicv, was a member of LulzSec, an offshoot the Justice D...
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William Rodgers
Released
William Courtney Rodgers, known throughout the radical ecology and animal liberation movements as Avalon, was...
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Gabriel Rubio
Gabriel Rubio was a Partido Liberal Mexicano refugee seized in Arizona in autumn 1906 and turned over to Mexic...
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Abraham Salcido
Abraham Salcido was a Partido Liberal Mexicano refugee seized in Arizona in autumn 1906 and turned over to Mex...
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Mark Warren Sands
Released
Mark Warren Sands, age 50, was convicted in 2002 of nine counts of arson and nine counts of use of fire to com...
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Manuel Sarabia
Released
Manuel Sarabia, a Partido Liberal Mexicano militant, was seized on June 30, 1907, in Arizona and kidnapped acr...

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